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Live/Work


In Plain English: Requirements:

Live/work, also known as Residentially Oriented Joint Living and Work Quarters (JLWQ), or R-7 Occupancy under the code, are spaces in which the quiet enjoyment expectations of the neighbors in the building or adjacent buildings take precedence over work needs of the unit in question. Therefore, the predominant use of a live/work unit is residential, and commercial activity is a secondary use; employees and walk-in trade are not usually permitted.

Live/work must comply with the live/work Building Code, and is allowed in any zone (in Manufacturing by securing a Conditional Use Permit).

(Typically) no employees or walk-in trade allowed.

Limited number of fixed machines, as used for woodworking, for example.

Restricted levels of hazardous materials and activities.

Must comply with residential restrictions on noise


LIVE/WORK IS CURRENTLY ONLY PERMITTED TO BE BUILT IN OAKLAND IN A RENOVATED EXISTING COMMERCIAL OR INDUSTRIAL BUILDING.

NEW CONSTRUCTION LIVE/WORK IS NOT PERMITTED.


Code Definition:  
346C.1 RESIDENTIALLY-ORIENTED JLWQ is a single-tenant space combining working and living uses with or without interior walls where the residential use is the same as a use that by itself would be classified as a Group R, Division 1 Occupancy (excluding hotels, motels, and care facilities), and where the work use, by itself, is no more hazardous than that which is normally permitted in residential facilities, and the work use is the same as one that by itself would be classified as a Group B Occupancy (excluding drinking and dining establishments and food handling activities with on-site food sales and excluding certain business occupancies similar to animal hospitals, kennels, pounds; automobile and other motor vehicle showrooms; banks; car washes; civic administration; outpatient clinic and medical offices; dry cleaning or laundry pick-up and delivery stations and self-service; work classified as Group F, Division 2 Occupancies, when the scale and intensity of the activity is limited may be permitted if a request in approved form and content for alternate materials, design and methods of construction is submitte2.38.224.XXXse.client2.attbi.com65.34.211.XXXunresolved152.43.34.XXXunresolved203.240.146.XXXuunresolved61.53.232.XXXunresolved208.31.80.XXXunresolved211.215.163.XXXunresolved61.180.51.XXX58.7.235.proxycache.rima-tde.net80.58.7.XXX.proxycache.rima-tde.netunresolved202.108.243.XXXunresolved198.78.131.XXXunresolved212.72.26.XXXunresolved209.131.213.XXXunresolved65.169.137.XXXunresolved202.59.40.XXXunresolved129.142.120.XXXunresolved202.9.171.XXXunresolved4.7.164.XXXunresolved200.244.8.XXX.cfl.rr.comunresolveddialup-64.158.184.XXX.dial1.newyork1.level3.netunresolved195.22.199.XXXunresolved216.113.224.XXXunresolved12.38.224.XXXunresolved203.240.146.XXXunresolved211.139.122.XXXunresolved12.148.60.XXXunresolved209.101.126.XXXded.swbell.net67.64.87.XXXunresolved194.165.66.XXXvc.shawcable.net24.83.5.XXXunresolved216.207.211.XXXunresolved209.79.173.XXXunresolved63.231.3