In Gardena's single-family R-1 zone, buildings must keep a twenty-foot front yard, ten-foot rear yard for new dwellings, and four-foot side yards. Commercial buildings near homes need larger landscaped setbacks.
Gardena Municipal Code Chapter 18.12 (Single-Family Residential Zone, R-1) sets the core residential setbacks. The front yard setback is twenty feet, and garages fronting a public street must also keep twenty feet. The rear yard setback is ten feet for new dwellings and additions, and a minimum of five feet for existing single-story dwellings. Side and rear lot line setbacks are four feet. For nonresidential development, Chapter 18.42 requires a landscaped building setback of not less than ten feet where commercial or industrial property fronts a street, and not less than twenty feet where such property abuts a residential (R) zone. Setbacks are measured to the property lines and must meet the zone's development standards.
Structures encroaching into required yards without an approved variance are violations subject to correction orders, permit denial and possible penalties.
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