Zoning Districts
Establishes areas within the City for general type of land use development (i.e. 2.2 Low Density Residential, 3.1 Multiuse, 4.2 Community Commercial, 5.4 General Industrial and 6.1 Institutional) to maintain the public health and well being by ensuring incompatible uses are not developed adjacent to each other such as a childcare center located next to a rock crushing plant. Within each zoning district, permitted and conditionally permitted land uses are listed as well as development standards including, but not limited to, maximum building height, minimum setback dimensions, and maximum lot coverage. 

For more information, consult the Zoning Ordinance at municipalcode.com. Click on Online Library; California, Irvine Zoning.  Once the Irvine Zoning Code is on your screen, you can move throughout the document by simply using your cursor in the gray box to the left of the screen. By clicking on the file you can identify the chapters, and then sections. By clicking on the page icon you can open the section you would like to see. It will appear on the right side of your screen.