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Riverside County Unincorporated, California · General provision

17.106.020

Planned DevelopmentAll Riverside County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETSTREETFront 15 ftRear 10 ftSide 5 ftStreet side 10 ftMIN LOT AREA2,000 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.
2,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.

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

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
15 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
10 ft
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

Housing

Two-family
conditionalConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote.

Uses

Permitted by right1

  • Community service areas designed primarily for the use of the residents of the subdivision

Conditional / special use1

Extracted standards

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

Fencing & walls

Other

  • Maximum eave projection3 ft

    Eaves may extend into a required yard up to three feet and the street side yard up to two feet.

  • Maximum architectural projection2 ft

    Architectural projections ... may extend into a required yard not to exceed two feet.

From the ordinance

The minimum lot area for the individual lots used as a residential building site shall be two thousand (2,000) square feet. ... Residential lots shall provide a minimum yard setback of fifteen (15) feet for front yards, five feet for side yards and ten (10) feet for rear yards and street-side side yards.
17.106.020