Portola Valley, California · General provision

18.52.090

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETSTREETbuildable areaFront 5 ftStreet side 15 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

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

Other

Parking

  • Guest parking requirement for garage exception

    There are adequate guest parking spaces available to the parcel to obviate the need for parking on the driveway apron unless there is at least twenty feet between the street traveled way and the garage.

From the ordinance

On any legally established parcel in existence at the time of the adoption of the ordinance codified in this title, a private garage, attached or detached, may be built to within five feet of the front lot line, but not closer than fifteen feet of the center line of a public or private street, provided such garage shall hold the side yard setbacks that are required for the main building when located in districts with required minimum building sites of twenty thousand square feet or less, provided the planning commission finds that: A. It is impractical to construct a private driveway with a grade of twenty percent or less to a garage site conforming to the requirements of this title; B. There are adequate guest parking spaces available to the parcel to obviate the need for parking on the driveway apron unless there is at least twenty feet between the street traveled way and the garage.
18.52.090