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Riverside, California · General provision

Chapter 19.380

All Riverside districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin frontage 140 ftMIN LOT AREA5 ac
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.
217,800 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (5 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Minimum frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.
140 ft

Extracted standards

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

Fencing & walls

Other

  • Hours of operation

    Hours of operation shall be limited to 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sundays.

  • Minimum asphaltic concrete thickness for open areas2.5 in

    All open areas, other than landscaped planter beds shall be paved with not less than two and one-half inches of asphaltic concrete

  • Minimum separation from residential/commercial zones and schools600 ft

    No transfer station or MRF shall be closer than 600 feet to any property in a residential or commercial zone or from any school (kindergarten through twelfth grade), assemblies of people—non-entertainment, hospital or similar use involving a large assemblage of people, as measured between property lines.

From the ordinance

The gross land area shall not be less than five acres with a minimum street frontage of 140 feet. No transfer station or MRF shall be closer than 600 feet to any property in a residential or commercial zone or from any school...
Chapter 19.380