The Residential Design Standards Ordinance has been developed to provide clear, measurable, and objective requirements to guide the design of residential and mixed-use development throughout the County’s unincorporated communities. These requirements apply to projects of all scales, ranging from a single parcel to large subdivisions. This document provides guiding principles, design guidelines, and development standards that embrace and build upon existing priorities established by adopted County policies for all the unincorporated urban, suburban, and rural communities throughout the County.