Luxury Remodeling in Chino
Design-build pools, outdoor living and ADUs shaped around Chino's zoning districts, equestrian lots and long inland summers.
Building in Chino
Pools, outdoor living and ADUs for Chino's horse-keeping lots and planned communities.
Chino still carries the shape of its dairy country. In the south, The Preserve was annexed in July 2003 across about 5,435 acres of former and existing farm and dairy property, planned with a mix of housing that includes equestrian estates, linked by paseos and trails, and with roughly half of the land left as open space. College Park took a different route: voters authorized the city to rezone its 707 acres south of Edison Avenue, between Euclid and Central Avenues, from institutional to residential use. Elsewhere, the RD 1 and RD 2 districts still make room for horses on large lots. The practical questions on a Chino property are which zoning district it sits in, where a cabana or equipment pad is allowed to go, and how much shade the summer calls for.
Lot size follows the zoning district: the Residential/Agricultural RD 1 and RD 2 districts set one-acre and 20,000-square-foot minimums for new lots, allow horse-keeping and require neighborhood equestrian trail easements, while RD 4.5, the district modeled on many of the city's existing suburban tracts, sets a 7,200-square-foot minimum.
One team designs, permits and builds every project, and our own crews self-perform the work, so the people who plan your Chino project are the people on site building it.
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Local Conditions
What building in Chino involves
Permits in Chino
City of Chino Development Services Department, Building Division
Residential permits are issued by the Building Division of Development Services, with applications filed online through the city's Accela permit portal. Chino's pool barrier standard states that a pool enclosure is always required, calls for at least two of the seven state drowning-prevention features on a new or remodeled pool or spa at a single-family home, and requires the barrier to be installed and inspected before the pool is plastered or filled. The zoning code caps a detached ADU at 1,600 square feet in the RD 1 and RD 2 districts and 1,200 square feet elsewhere, and gives the city 30 days, rather than 60, to act on a completed application that uses one of its preapproved ADU plans.
What we plan for here
- Pool enclosure inspection before plaster
- Preapproved ADU plan submittals
- Screened pool equipment placement
- Rear-half siting for cabanas and sheds
- Equestrian-lot layouts in RD 1 and RD 2
The Preserve, south of Kimball Avenue, spans about 5,435 acres of former and existing farm and dairy property, with roughly half planned to remain open space and a network of paseos and trails, so newer lots can sit beside working land.
Non-habitable accessory structures such as cabanas and storage sheds must sit on the rear half of the lot and cannot block free and clear access to the rear yard, which settles early where a pool cabana or storage building can go.
Mechanical equipment accessory to a structure, whether on a roof, a wall or the ground, must be completely screened from public view with architecturally compatible screening, a rule worth resolving before a pool equipment pad is placed.
Long, hot inland summers make shade, cool deck surfaces and pool water temperature central design questions.
Neighborhoods we work in
- The Preserve
- College Park
- East Chino
Chino Services
Everything we build in Chino
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Pool & Spa Remodeling in Chino
We design and build pools and spas with our own crews, start to finish.
Backyard & Outdoor Living in Chino
Outdoor living, hardscape, and curb appeal, designed and built to outlast the SoCal sun.
ADUs & Additions in Chino
We design, permit, and build ADUs and additions that actually add value.
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