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Riverside County Unincorporated, California · General provision

17.78.080

All Riverside County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETSTREETSide 5 ftStreet side 10 ftMin frontage 45 ftMIN LOT AREA5,000 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.
5,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Minimum frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.
45 ft

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

SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
5 ft
Street sideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
10 ft

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

The minimum lot area shall be five thousand (5,000) square feet; ... Side yards on interior and through lots shall be not less than five feet in width. ... The minimum frontage of a lot shall be forty-five (45) feet, except that the fronting on knuckles or culs-de-sac may have a minimum frontage of thirty-five (35) feet measured along the right-of-way line.
17.78.080