Portola Valley, California · General provision

18.52.110

Dimensional standards

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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

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

Other

From the ordinance

When a parcel does not abut on a street or gains access from an individual accessway, and is in a residential zoning district requiring a minimum parcel area of one acre of more, the required front yard shall be determined as follows: A. If the neighboring parcel(s) common to the front parcel line does not have a residence, the required front yard shall be the same as specified in Section 18.48.010 for the required rear yard. B. If the neighboring parcel(s) common to the front parcel line has a residence, the board of adjustment may grant an exception to reduce the required front yard but in no case to a dimension less than specified in Section 18.48.010 for the required rear yard...
18.52.110