A. Standards: The following standards shall be applied to construction or installation of all detached single-family residential structures and second units unless otherwise specified within this code:
1. Manufactured Home Foundation Systems: Manufactured home foundation systems shall comply with either Health And Safety Code section 18551 or title 25, chapter 2, sections 1333 and 1334 of the California code of regulations, and shall include tie down, clip, or anchoring systems approved by an engineer to resist lateral forces for the subject manufactured home.
2. Manufactured Home Certification Tag Or Label Required: A permit from the building and safety division for the installation of a manufactured home not within an approved and properly licensed mobilehome park shall not be issued, if more than ten (10) years have elapsed between the date of manufacture and the date of the application for the issuance of the permit to install such manufactured home except as provided below. Also, the manufacturer shall permanently affixed a label or tag to the manufactured home certifying that the manufactured home complies with federal construction and safety standards applicable to the national manufactured housing construction and safety standards act of 1974 (42 USC section 5401 et seq., section 5415).
3. Siding: Siding material shall consist of stucco, wood, brick, stone, or decorative concrete block. Synthetic products of a similar appearance and equivalent durability shall be allowed. Metal siding, if utilized, shall be nonreflective. The exterior covering material shall extend to a point at or near grade, except if an approved solid wood, metal, concrete, or masonry perimeter foundation is used, the exterior covering material need not extend below the top of the foundation.
4. Roofing Material: The roofing material shall be tile, composite shingles, wood shakes, and shingles (if allowed by the fire safety (FS) overlay or other applicable overlay(s)), or other material customarily used in the surrounding community. Roofs shall have eave and gable overhangs of not less than twelve inches (12"), measured from the vertical side of building, except for flat roof designs, with parapets, such as southwestern architectural styles.
5. Entries And Exits: Entries and exits shall be completed in compliance with chapter 10 of the California building code.
6. Minimum Size And Dimensions: Minimum floor area shall be seven hundred twenty five (725) square feet measured from the exterior of the structure. Minimum floor width and depth shall each average twenty feet (20') measured from the exterior of the structure, excluding garages, porches, patios, eaves, cabanas, and popouts.
7. Utility Hookups: Utility hookups and an area suitable to accommodate the installation of a clothes washer and dryer shall be provided within the primary structure or within an enclosed accessory structure.
8. Dedication And Infrastructure Requirements: A building permit shall not be issued for the construction of single-family residential dwelling unless all of the following infrastructure requirements are satisfied for an existing lot of record:
a. Proof Of Legal And Physical Access:
(1) Physical access is a route which is traversable in a standard (2-wheel drive) sedan. Proof shall consist of an engineer or surveyor's signed and sealed letter, certifying that physical access has been completed.
(2) Legal access is:
(A) A dedicated right of way;
(B) A dedication to the town of Yucca Valley and to the public in general, an easement for public road, town highway and public utility purposes of a width as established by the circulation element of the general plan. The easement or road constructed on the dedicated land shall not become a town highway until and unless the council, by appropriate resolution, has caused the road to be accepted into the town maintained road system.
(C) An existing traveled way that is substantially in compliance with town road standards, where a prescriptive right by the user has been established for the public use by court decree.
(D) Private road easement.
(3) When all feasible efforts to establish legal access in accordance with subsection A8a(2) of this section have been exhausted, the lot is an existing legally created parcel, and the property owner has physical access, the director, in his/her discretion, may waive the requirement for legal access on the condition that the property owner enters into an agreement in the form required by the town which includes the property owner's: a) representation that the owner has a right to physical access; b) acknowledgment that proof of legal access has not been provided to the town's satisfaction; and c) agreement to disclose to any subsequent owners that legal access has not been established to the satisfaction of the town. Notation of said agreement and conditions of waiver shall also be included on the building permit.
b. Infrastructure: Infrastructure as determined by the director depending on the location of the parcel to be developed. This may include, but not be limited to, any of the following: paved access, curbs and gutters, sidewalk, bike paths and trails and/or appropriate drainage improvements.
c. Water:
(1) Water Purveyor: Required when in the service area of a water purveyor and the purveyor can supply the water.
(2) Substantiated Well Water: If the subject parcel is not within the service area of a water purveyor, well water may be allowed if all required setbacks are met.
d. Sanitation:
(1) Sewer: Projects shall connect as required by ordinances and policies adopted by the Hi-Desert water district.
(2) Septic systems: Allowed in compliance with the local regional water quality control board regulations.
e. Fireflow: Adequate fireflow and fire safety measures in compliance with the most current regulations adopted by the San Bernardino County fire department. (Ord. 253, 12-16-2014)