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Riverside County Unincorporated, California · General provision

17.76.110

All Riverside County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaRear 50 ftSide 10 ftMin width 100 ftMin depth 150 ftMIN LOT AREA20,000 sq 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.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
20,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.46 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.
100 ft
Minimum lot depth
150 ft

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
50 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
10 ft

Servicing

Geographic extent
Planning Areas 28, 30 of Specific Plan No. 286

From the ordinance

Lot area shall be not less than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet. The minimum average width of that portion of a lot to be used as a building site shall be one hundred (100) feet with a minimum average depth of one hundred fifty (150) feet. The side yard shall not be less than ten (10) feet. The rear yard shall not be less than fifty (50) feet.
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