Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Portola Road
- Geographic extent
- Portola Road from intersection with Alpine Road to northwesterly town limits
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Setback
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for parcels >= 1 acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones. (if not visible)25 ft
where a parcel has a side or rear parcel line contiguous with the Portola Road right-of-way, an accessory structure may come within twenty-five feet of the right-of-way provided the architectural and site control commission finds the structure will not be seen from Portola Road or that existing and/or proposed planting consistent with the character and quality of the Portola Road corridor will largely obscure the structure
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for parcels < 1 acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones. (if not visible)20 ft
Where a parcel has a side or rear parcel line contiguous with the Portola Road right-of-way, an accessory structure may come within twenty feet of the right-of-way provided the architectural and site control commission finds the structure will not be seen from Portola Road or that existing and/or proposed planting consistent with the character and quality of the Portola Road corridor will largely obscure the structure
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for one-story house on parcels < 1 acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.35 ft
a one-story house shall observe a minimum setback of thirty-five feet
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for second story addition on parcels < 1 acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.45 ft
any second story addition thereto shall observe a minimum setback of forty-five feet
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for parcels >= 1 acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.50 ft
In zoning districts requiring a minimum parcel area of one acre or larger, no structure shall be closer to the Portola Road right-of-way than fifty feet
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for two-story house on parcels < 1 acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.40 ft
alternatively, a two-story house shall observe a minimum setback of forty feet
From the ordinance
No structure shall be located closer to the right-of-way of Portola Road in that section from the intersection with Alpine Road to the northwesterly town limits than as stipulated below: a. In zoning districts requiring a minimum parcel area of one acre or larger, no structure shall be closer to the Portola Road right-of-way than fifty feet; ... b. In zoning districts requiring a minimum parcel area less than one acre, a one-story house shall observe a minimum setback of thirty-five feet and any second story addition thereto shall observe a minimum setback of forty-five feet; alternatively, a two-story house shall observe a minimum setback of forty feet.