Belvedere Municipal Code

Title 1 - General Provisions (PDF)

• 1.01 Code Adoption (PDF)
• 1.04 General Provisions (PDF)
• 1.08 Official Posting Places (PDF)
• 1.12 Code Enforcement - Remedies and Penalties for Violations (PDF)
• 1.14 Administrative Remedies for Code Violations (PDF)
• 1.15 Administrative Citations (PDF)

Title 2 - Administration and Personnel (PDF)

• 2.04 City Manager (PDF)
  
• 2.08 City Council (PDF)
• 2.10 Municipal Elections (PDF)
• 2.12 Police Officer Standards and Training (PDF)
  
• 2.16 Police Reserve (PDF)
  
• 2.28 Planning Commission (PDF)
  
• 2.32 Disaster Council and Emergency Services (PDF)
• 2.36 Public Employees' Retirement System (PDF)
• 2.40 Personnel System (PDF)
• 2.44 Community Hall (PDF)
• 2.46 Municipal Library (PDF)

Title 3 - Revenue and Finance (PDF)

• 3.04 Special Gas Tax-Street Improvement Fund (PDF)
• 3.08 Purchasing (PDF)
• 3.12 Claims and Demands (PDF)
• 3.16 Property Taxation (PDF)
• 3.20 Real Property Transfer Tax (PDF)`
• 3.24 Sales and Use Tax (PDF)
• 3.28 Special Taxes and Appropriation Limit Increases (PDF)

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Title 5 - Business Taxes, Licenses and Regulations (PDF)

• 5.04 Business License Tax (PDF)
• 5.08 Solicitors, Peddlers and Spokespersons (PDF)
• 5.12 Taxicabs (PDF)
• 5.16 Still Photography, Motion Pictures, Radio and Television Productions (PDF)

Title 6 - Animals (PDF)

• 6.04 Animal Control (PDF)
• Marin County Animals Code (PDF)

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Title 8 - Health and Safety (PDF)

• 8.04 Food Establishments (PDF)
• 8.06 Carryout Bags (PDF)
• 8.08 Garbage Collection and Disposal (PDF)
• 8.10 Noise (PDF)
• 8.12 Nuisance Abatement (PDF)
• 8.16 Debris Boxes (PDF)
• 8.18 Smoking an Tobacco Regulations (PDF)
• 8.20 Disposing of Materials in Streets (PDF)
• 8.24 Asphalt Heating Kettles (PDF)
• 8.28 Trees (PDF)
• 8.32 Water Wells (PDF)
• 8.36 Urban Runoff Pollution Prevention (PDF)

Title 9 - Public Peace, Morals and Welfare (PDF)

• 9.52 Curfew for Minors (PDF)
• 9.54 Social Host Accountability (PDF)
• 9.60 Discharge of Weapons, Firearms and Fireworks (PDF)
• 9.70 Regulation of Firearms (PDF)

Title 10 - Vehicles and Traffic (PDF)

• 10.04 Definitions (PDF)
• 10.08 Administration (PDF)
• 10.12 Enforcement (PDF)
• 10.16 Speed Limits (PDF)
• 10.20 Traffic-Control Devices (PDF)
• 10.24 Turning Movements (PDF)
• 10.28 One-Way Streets (PDF)
• 10.32 Special Stops (PDF)
• 10.36 Stopping, Standing and Parking (PDF)
• 10.38 Abatement of Abandoned Vehicles (PDF)
• 10.40 Loading Zones (PDF)
• 10.44 Inhabitation of Vehicles (PDF)
• 10.48 Removal of Vehicles (PDF)
• 10.52 Miscellaneous Driving Rules (PDF)
• 10.56 Commercial Vehicles (PDF)
• 10.60 Sound Trucks (PDF)
• 10.64 Bicycles (PDF)
• 10.68 Skateboards (PDF)
• 10.70 Regulating Passenger Bus/Tour Operations Within the City Limits (PDF)
• 10.72 Trip Reduction and Travel Demand Management (PDF)

Title 11 - Water and Watercraft (PDF)

• 11.04 General Provisions (PDF)
• 11.05 Permit Requirements, Remedies for Marin Debris, and Abandoned or Derlict Vessels (PDF)
• 11.08 Watercraft Operation (PDF)
  
• 11.16 Piers and Moorings (PDF)
• 11.20 Miscellaneous Regulations (PDF)

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Title 13 - Streets, Sidewalks and Other Public Places (PDF)

• 13.04 Encroachments (PDF)
• 13.08 Underground Utility Services (PDF)
• 13.12 Telecommunications (PDF)
• 13.16 House Numbers (PDF)
• 13.20 Poles and Wires (PDF)
• 13.24 Repair and Construction of Sidewalks (PDF)

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Title 16 - Buildings and Construction (PDF)

• 16.04 Construction Codes (PDF)
• 16.12 California Fire Code (PDF)
• 16.14 Burglary, Fire, and Robbery Alarms (PDF)
• 16.15 Grading and Erosion Control (PDF)
• 16.16 Structures in Inundated Land (PDF)
• 16.20 Floodplain Management (PDF)
• 16.24 Residential Building Records Reports (PDF)
• 16.28 Demolition Permits (PDF)
  
• 16.30 Construction and Demolition Debris Diversion (PDF)
• 16.32 Small Residential Rooftop Solar Systems (PDF)

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Title 18 - Subdivisions (PDF)

• 18.04 General Provisions (PDF)
  
• 18.08 Design Standards (PDF)
  
• 18.12 Improvements (PDF)
  
• 18.16 Survey and Monuments (PDF)
  
• 18.20 Tentative Map (PDF)
  
• 18.24 Final Map (PDF)
  
• 18.26 Parcel Map (PDF)
  
• 18.28 Lot Line Adjustments (PDF)
  
• 18.32 Minor Subdivisions (PDF)
  
• 18.34 Merger of Contiguous Parcels (PDF)
  
• 18.36 Exceptions (PDF)

Title 19 - Zoning (PDF)

• 19.04 General Provisions (PDF)
  
• 19.08 Definitions (PDF)
  
• 19.12 Zones Established-Boundaries and Zoning Map (PDF)
  
• 19.16 O Zone (PDF)
  
• 19.20 R Zone (PDF)
  
• 19.24 R-1 Zones (PDF)
  
• 19.26 R-15 Zone (PDF)
  
• 19.28 R-2 Zone (PDF)
  
• 19.32 R-3C Zone (PDF)
  
• 19.36 R-3 Zone (PDF)
  
• 19.37 SC-H Zone (PDF)
  
• 19.38 Condominiums and Community Apartments (PDF)
  
• 19.40 C-1 Zone (PDF)
  
• 19.42 PUD Overlay Zone (PDF)
  
• 19.44 Lot Area, Width and Frontages (PDF)
  
• 19.48 Yards and Setbacks (PDF)
  
• 19.52 Density and Open Space Requirements (PDF)
  
• 19.56 Height Limits (PDF)
  
• 19.60 Building Requirements (PDF)
  
• 19.64 Streets and Private Ways (PDF)
  
• 19.68 Off-Street Parking (PDF)
  
• 19.72 Signs (PDF)
  
• 19.74 Reasonable Accommodation (PDF)
  
• 19.76 Nonconforming Uses and Structures and Sites (PDF)
  
• 19.78 Second Kitchens (PDF)
  
• 19.79 Accessory Dwelling Units and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units (PDF)
  
• 19.80 Conditional Use Permits (PDF)
• 19.84 Variances (PDF)
  
• 19.86 Development Agreement and Adoption Procedure (PDF)
  
• 19.87 Planned Unit Development Permits (PDF)
  
• 19.88 Amendments (PDF)
  
• 19.92 Administration and Enforcement (PDF)
  
• 19.93 Marijuana Regulation (PDF)

Title 20 - Architectural and Environmental Design Review (PDF)

• 20.04 Design Review (PDF)
  
• 20.06 Standards for Installation of Buoys, Piers, Gangways, Floats, Hoists and Related Structures on West Shore Road (PDF)

Title 21 - Historic Preservation (PDF)

• 21.04 Findings and Purposes (PDF)
  
• 21.08 Definitions (PDF)
  
• 21.12 Historic Preservation Committee (PDF)
  
• 21.16 Powers and Duties of the Preservation Committee (PDF)
  
• 21.20 Designation of Structures (PDF)
  
• 21.24 Proposed Modifications to Designated Structures (PDF)
  
• 21.32 Enforcement (PDF)

Ordinances Not Yet Codified:

ORDINANCE NO. 2019-7 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BELVEDERE AMENDING THE CONSTRUCTION TIME LIMIT ORDINANCE, BELVEDERE MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 20.04.035(D), TO CLARIFY EXTENSION APPLICATION TIME FRAME 

ORDINANCE NO. 2019-8 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BELVEDERE ADDING CHAPTER 19.94 "WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION FACILITIES" TO TITLE 19 (ZONING) OF THE BELVEDERE MUNICIPAL CODE

ORDINANCE NO. 2019-10 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BELVEDERE REPEALING THE CONTENTS OF CHAPTER 16.04, "CONSTRUCTION CODES," OF THE BELVEDERE MUNICIPAL CODE; ADOPTING BY REFERENCE, WITH CERTAIN AMENDMENTS, PARTS 1 THROUGH 6, 8, 10, 11, AND 12 OF TITLE 24 OF THE CALIFORNIA CODE OF REGULATIONS, 2019 EDITION, ENTITLED RESPECTIVELY "CALIFORNIA ADMINISTRATIVE CODE," "CALIFORNIA BUILDING CODE," "CALIFORNIA RESIDENTIAL CODE" "CALIFORNIA ELECTRICAL CODE," "CALIFORNIA MECHANICAL CODE," "CALIFORNIA PLUMBING CODE," "CALIFORNIA ENERGY CODE," CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL BUILDING CODE," "CALIFORNIA EXISTING BUILDING CODE," "CALIFORNIA GREEN BUILDING CODE" AND "CALIFORNIA REFERENCED STANDARDS CODE"; AND ADOPTING BY REFERENCE PARTS 5.3 AND 5.4 OF THE 2007 EDITION OF THE SAFETY CODE FOR ELEVATORS AND ESCALATORS (ASME A17.1) 

ORDINANCE NO. 2019-11 AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BELVEDERE AMENDING TITLE 19, "ZONING," OF THE BELVEDERE MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS AND JUNIOR ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS TO CONFORM WITH CALIFORNIA STATE LAW 

ORDINANCE NO. 2019-12 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BELVEDERE REPEALING THE CONTENTS OF CHAPTER 16.12, "CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE," OF THE BELVEDERE MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE 2019 CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE, THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE, AND APPENDIX A OF THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE CODE 

ORDINANCE NO. 2020-01 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BELVEDERE AMENDING BELVEDERE MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 2.04, CITY MANAGER DUTIES, CONTRACT SIGNING

ORDINANCE NO. 2020-02 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BELVEDERE PROVIDING FOR THE TERMINATION OF THE MARIN TELECOMMUNICATIONS AGENCY BY REPEALING THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ORDINANCE CODIFIED IN CHAPTER 13.12 OF THE BELVEDERE MUNICIPAL CODE 

• Ordinance List and Disposition Table (PDF)
• Index (PDF)