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Placer County Unincorporated, California · General provision

Section 17.46.010

Rural ResidentialAll Placer County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin width 200 ftMIN LOT AREA10 ac
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
435,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (10 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.
200 ft

Density

Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
435,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (10 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Uses

Permitted by right4

Conditional / special use16

Extracted standards

1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

  • Fire safe regulations

    As required by the California Board of Forestry Fire Safe regulations, Section 1276.01, Title 14, California Code of Regulations.

From the ordinance

Minimum lot area: 10 acres. Minimum lot width: 200 ft. Density: one unit per parcel.
Section 17.46.010