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Lassen County Unincorporated, California · General provision

Chapter 18.70

TimberAll Lassen County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA160 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.
6,969,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (160 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Uses

Permitted by right8

  • Growing and harvesting of timber, including Christmas trees
  • Management for watershed
  • Management for fish and wildlife habitat, and hunting and fishing
  • Uses integrally related to the growing, harvesting and processing of forest products including but not limited to roads, log landings, log storage areas, fire and erosion control, and temporary portable wood processing equipment
  • The erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance of gas, electric, water, sewage, or communication transmission facilities
  • Grazing
  • Extraction of mineral resources and geothermal resources that convert less than three acres of land to non-timberland uses
  • Recreational facilities and uses, including but not limited to pedestrian, equestrian and mountain biking trails, skiing facilities and uses including ski lifts, and accessory uses and structures thereto (only on lands designated as mountain resort in the general plan)

From the ordinance

The T-P-Z district is devoted to those areas dedicated to the growing, conserving, and production of timber in areas of sufficient size to be economically feasible.
Chapter 18.70

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "permitted_uses": [
      "Such other uses as may be determined by the community development director to be consistent and compatible with the foregoing uses and the Timberland Productivity Act of 1982"
    ]
  }
}