The following uses shall apply in the R-2 Limited Multiple-Family
Zone unless otherwise provided in this Chapter:
(1) Any
use permitted in the R-1 One-Family Zone.
(2) One
or more one-family dwellings per lot.
(4) Churches
or other facilities for regularly scheduled religious or metaphysic
meetings, subject to Special Use Permit approval.
(5) Group
home or community care facility not exceeding six residents and not
located within three hundred feet of any other group home or comparable
facility. Any orphanage or group home, for children only and if exceeding
six residents, is subject to Special Use Permit approval.
(6) Required
parking space (See Article 19 of this Chapter).
(7) Transitional
use, subject to the following conditions:
(a) Transitional
use for a public parking area shall be permitted where the side of
a lot in the R-2 (Limited Multiple-Family Zone abuts a lot zoned for
commercial or industrial purposes and is developed as required in
Article 19 of this Chapter; provided however, in no case should such
a transitional use extend more than sixty feet from the site or sides
of the R-2 Limited Multiple-Family Zone lot abutting upon a lot zoned
for commercial or industrial purposes; or
(b) Development
of any island, triangular or irregular shaped corner residentially-zoned
property shall be permitted where the property abuts; two or more
major, minor, or collector streets, as identified in the Comprehensive
General Plan Circulation Element, with a public or private use that
provides a primary public benefit or service to adjacent residential
properties including public or private pedestrian plazas, public or
private corner parks, public or private open air, at-grade or below-grade
parking lots, public or private community gardens, or public or private
dog/animal parks. In no case shall the transitional uses include buildings
or structures that exceed the height limit established for the residential
zone and the transitional use shall be physically separated from any
abutting residential lot by a decorative masonry wall not less than
five feet nor more than eight feet high, measured on the parking lot
side; provided however, that any portion of such wall immediately
adjacent to the front yard of an abutting residential property shall
be not be less than three feet nor more than three and one-half feet
high, measured from the parking lot side. The approval of a transitional
use by the City shall give consideration to the following:
(i) The transitional use will provide a primary benefit or service to
an adjacent residential neighborhood.
(ii) The transitional use will assist in meeting a goal of the Inglewood
General Plan to provide public services and uses for Inglewood residents.
(iii) The transitional use will minimize police, fire, code enforcement
and other public service expenditures required to remove graffiti,
secure abandoned buildings, remove vagrants and vandals and to correct
other adverse conditions that could otherwise occur through extended
property vacancy or abandonment.
(8) Accessory dwelling units subject to the requirements of Article 35
of this chapter.
(Ord. 1956 8-30-68; Ord. 2346 7-3-79; Ord. 87-7 5-19-87; Ord. 87-15 6-30-87; Ord. 92-22 12-22-92; Ord. 09-04 2-10-09; Ord. 24-02, 12/12/2023)
No building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall
exceed two and one-half stories, or thirty-five feet in height.
There shall be a front yard of not less than twenty-five percent
of the depth of the lot provided such front yard need not exceed twenty
feet except where lots comprising forty percent or more of the frontage
on one side of a street between intersecting streets are developed
with buildings having an average front yard with a variation of not
more than six feet, no building hereafter erected or structurally
altered shall project beyond the average front yard line so established.
For dwelling units hereafter constructed in the R-2 Zone, be
it new construction or alterations of existing units, there shall
be not less than two thousand five hundred square feet of site area
for each dwelling unit on a lot having one or two units.
Additionally, there shall be not less than eight thousand square
feet of site area for a lot having three dwelling units, and each
dwelling unit, in excess of three, shall have an additional three
thousand square feet of site area per unit.
(Ord. 1981 1-24-69; Ord. 2426 9-21-82; Ord. 88-6 5-10-88)
At the discretion of the Director of Planning and Building Department,
or designee, with the concurrence of the Superintendent of Building
and Safety, any applicant for a building permit to construct an accessory
building on the same lot with a dwelling, or an addition to a dwelling,
shall execute an agreement whereby the applicant covenants that the
proposed structure will not be rented separately as a dwelling unit
from the main structure or structures and that in the event of future
resale, exchange, leasing or other transfer of possession of the entire
property, no representation will be made by applicant or representatives
that said accessory building or addition can be rented as a separate
dwelling unit. Said covenant and agreement shall be recorded in the
office of the County Recorder of the County of Los Angeles, which
recording shall be accomplished at the applicant's expense and which
covenant shall run with the land and be binding upon future owners,
lessees, heirs or assigns, and other occupants of the premises involved.
(Ord. 1313 5-29-56; Ord. 2397 5-5-81; Ord. 87-15 6-30-87; Ord. 08-05 4-22-08; Ord. 23-07 1-31-23)
Those R-2 (R-2 Limited Multiple-Family Zone Regulation) properties
within the area defined by the Transit Oriented Development Plans
shall be subject to the development standards and Design Guidelines
contained therein. In the event of a conflict between the TOD plan
provisions and the R-1 zone provisions, the TOD plan shall govern.
(Ord. 22-03 12-14 21)