In Gardena's single-family R-1 zone, lot coverage may not exceed fifty percent on interior lots and seventy-five percent on corner lots, with a minimum lot area of five thousand square feet.
Gardena Municipal Code Chapter 18.12 (Single-Family Residential Zone, R-1) limits building lot coverage to fifty percent for interior lots and seventy-five percent for corner lots. The zone also requires a minimum lot area of five thousand square feet. Lot coverage works with the zone's setback and height standards, a twenty-foot front yard, ten-foot rear yard, four-foot side yards, and a twenty-five-foot, two-story limit, to control building bulk on single-family parcels. Coverage is generally measured as the building footprint relative to total lot area. Owners planning additions or accessory structures should confirm they stay within the coverage percentage for their lot type, as exceeding it requires a variance. Other zoning districts set their own coverage standards.
Construction that pushes a lot over the fifty or seventy-five percent coverage cap without a variance is a violation subject to permit denial and correction orders.
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