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Placer County Unincorporated, California · General provision

Section 17.56.110

All Placer County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin width 4,000 ftMIN LOT AREA640 acMAX HEIGHT20 ftMAX LOT COVERAGE1%
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.
27,878,400 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (640 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.
4,000 ft

Height & bulk

Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
20 ft
Maximum lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage.
1%

Parking

Minimum spacesMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open.
2

Extracted standards

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

Parking

  • Parking spaces per magazine or mixing building2 spaces

    Two off-street parking spaces for each magazine or mixing building.

From the ordinance

Minimum Lot Area. Six hundred forty acres.
Section 17.56.110