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ORDINANCE NO. 96-4
(Building Height and Accessory Structure
Size Limitations)
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows (omitting the
parenthetical footnotes from the official text from the enacted provisions of the County
Ordinance Code).
SECTION 1. Section 82-4.212 of the Contra Costa County Ordinance Code is
amended to read as follows:
82-4.212 Building, accessory. "Accessory building" is a building the use
and size of which is subordinate and incidental to that of a main building on the same
lot. In addition, no accessory building shall exceed:
(1) Five hundred square feet of floor area coverage on lots less than
twenty thousand square feet in area and six hundred square feet of floor area coverage
on lots greater than twenty thousand square feet in area.
(2) Fifteen feet in height.
(Ords. 96- i4 § 1, 1781, 1760, 1759, 1569, 1469: prior code § 8102(g): Ords. 1269,
1264, 1224, 939, 933, 382.)
SECTION ll. Section 82-4.214 of the Contra Costa County Ordinance Code is
amended to read as follows:
82-4.214 Building height. "Building height" means the vertical distance
measured from grade to the top of structure directly above with exceptions noted
elsewhere in the code. Height may be measured from finished grade when such grade
is below natural grade. Height shall be measured from natural grade when the finished
grade is higher than natural grade.
(Ords. 96- 4 § 2, 1781, 1760, 1759, 1569, 1469: prior code § 8102(pp): Ords. 1269,
1264, 1224, 939, 933, 382.)
SECTION III. Section 84-2.006 is added to the Contra Costa County Ordinance
Code to read as follows:
84-2.006 Accessory Building Variances. Variance permits to modify the
area coverage and height provisions contained in subsections (1) and (2) of Section 82-
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4.212 may be granted in accordance with Chapters 26-2 and 82-6.
(Ord. 96- 4 § 3.)
SECTION IV. Effective Date. This ordinance becomes effective 30 days after
passage, and within 15 days after passage shall be published once with the names of
supervisors, voting for and against it in the Contra Costa Times , a
newspaper published in this County. (Gov.Code, §§ 25123 & 25124.)
PASSED ON February 27. 1996 , by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Rogers,Bishop, DeSaulnier, Torlakson, Smith
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN:None
ATTEST: PHIL BATCHELOR, Clerk of
the Board and County Administrator
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