Placer County Unincorporated, California · General provision

17.54.020

Dimensional standards

Extracted standards

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

Height

  • Architectural features 15% higher15 pct

    Chimneys, vents, and other architectural or mechanical appurtenances on buildings may be a maximum of 15% higher than the height limit of the applicable zone.

  • Public buildings up to 50 ft50 ft

    may be erected to a maximum height of 50 feet

  • The maximum allowed height for a dwelling on a site with slope between 15 and twenty-two and one-half (22½) percent may be increased over the five feet specified above by the same proportion that the actual site slope exceeds 15%.

From the ordinance

In a zone district with a height limit of less than 50 feet, public and quasi-public buildings, communications equipment buildings, schools, houses of worship, hospitals, and other institutions permitted in the zone, may be erected to a maximum height of 50 feet; provided, that all required setbacks shall be increased by one foot for each one foot of height that the building exceeds the normal height limit established by the zone.
17.54.020