Municipal Code, Complete - City of Santa Barbara

28.87.190 Storage.
A. No portion of any front yard or any required interior setback, open yard, private outdoor living space or front
porch shall be used for the permanent storage of motor vehicles, trailers, airplanes, boats, parts of any of the
foregoing, appliances, loose rubbish or garbage, junk, tents, garbage or rubbish receptacles, building materials,
compost pile, or any similar item, except as hereinafter provided. Permanent storage, as used in this section, shall
mean storage for a period of forty-eight (48) or more consecutive hours.
B. No portion of any vacant or undeveloped lot in a residential zone where no main building exists shall be used
for permanent storage.
C. Building materials for use on the same premises may be stored thereon during the time that a valid permit is
in effect for construction on the premises. (Ord. 5459, 2008; Ord. 3710, 1974; Ord. 3115, 1966.)
28.87.200 Landscape or Planting Plan Approvals - Standards.
Whenever in the Zoning Ordinance, as amended, the administrative duty of reviewing and approving landscaping
or planting plans is placed upon any officer or employee of the City, such officer or employee may disapprove such
plans, or any part of them, if:
1. Any or all of the proposed plant materials are of the type having root structures which, in their natural and
anticipated extension and growth and in relation to their location as shown on the plans, may damage or interfere with
the normal use and enjoyment of:
a. Public or private lines, cables, conduits, pipes or other underground structures; or
b. Public or private sidewalks, curbs, gutters or hard surfaced roads, streets, driveways, parking and turn
around areas, easements or like things designed and constructed to accommodate vehicles; or
c. Contiguous, adjacent or abutting structures, foundations or landscape materials.
2. Any or all of the proposed plant materials:
a. Are noxious or dangerous to persons or domestic animals; or
b. Exude or emit substances or things which because of proposed location will probably injure or damage
real or personal property in the area of their effect; or
c. Are weeds which bear seeds of a downy or wingy nature.
3. Any or all of the proposed plant materials, because of proposed location and type, will contribute to the
spread of or make more hazardous the possibility of a brush or forest fire; or
4. Any or all of the proposed plant materials which are designed for relatively permanent emplacement will
probably die because of proposed locations unrelated to their ecological requirements; or
5. Any or all of the proposed plant materials, as affected by normal growth, will probably block the view,
sunlight or fresh air flow otherwise available at a window or other opening in the walls of a building on the property
or of a building on adjacent property; or
6. Any or all of the proposed plant materials are so arranged or placed so as not to produce the aesthetic result
desired by the property owner; or
7. Any or all of the proposed plant materials are in such combinations as to promote a natural competition for
the elements necessary to their healthy growth and thus seriously affect their stability or permanence; or
8. Any or all of the proposed plant materials, as affected by normal growth, will tend to become a nuisance to or
otherwise interfere with the free use and enjoyment of neighboring property; or
9. Any or all of the proposed plant materials, as affected by normal growth, and with reference to their proposed
location, will probably become obstructions to the vision of vehicle operators or to other uses of public streets and
places, as such obstructions are defined and regulated under provisions contained in the Code of the City of Santa
Barbara. (Ord. 3710, 1974; Ord. 3008, 1964.)
28.87.205 Automobile Service Stations - Site Development Regulations.
For the promotion and preservation of the health, safety, peace and general mental, economic and physical
welfare, the following regulations, in addition to other requirements of law, are established for automobile service
station site development, primarily to provide opportunity for the dissipation of and to reduce noise, glare or lights
and gas and oil fumes, to provide safe barriers between adjacent pedestrian ways and vehicle maneuvering areas on
the site, and to provide adequate separation from adjoining residential properties so as to preserve their residential
amenities and incidentally, to carry out such primary purposes in a manner that will enhance and assure maintenance
of the aesthetic appeal of service station sites to aid and preserve the unique character and quality of the environment
of the City which draws tourists and visitors, consequently, both directly and indirectly promoting the business of
service station owners and operators as well as benefitting the general economy of the City of which the tourist and
visitor element is of predominant importance.
1. When a lot is developed for automobile service station purposes, the following requirements shall be met:
a. Where such lot abuts property used or zoned for residential purposes, such lot shall be separated from
such abutting property by an ornamental masonry wall six feet (6') high; provided that from the front property line to
a depth along the abutting lot line of twenty feet (20') such wall shall be three feet (3') high. There shall also be
provided individual planting areas no less than five feet (5') square along and adjacent to the side of such wall which
faces the service station facilities, such planting areas to be planted with trees.
543 rev. 9/30/08