Portola Valley, California · General provision

18.42.030

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 5 ftRear 10 ftMAX HEIGHT12 ft
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.

Extracted standards

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

Height

Other

From the ordinance

Ornamental garden structures which do not exceed twelve feet in height may occupy required yard areas provided that, in case of structures exceeding four feet in height, the building coverage does not exceed five percent of the area of the required front yard, ten percent of required side and rear yards, and that on corner lots such structures shall not exceed four feet in height if located within fifty feet of the intersected street lines.
18.42.030