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Lassen County Unincorporated, California · General provision

§ 18.90.080

GeothermalAll Lassen County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA40 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.
1,742,400 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (40 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Servicing

Applies near
geothermal resource areas
Geographic extent
Geothermal resource areas identified in the Lassen County general plan

Uses

Conditional / special use2

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Required findings for geothermal projects

    The geothermal resource is an integral component; direct efficient economical use; waste water management; monitoring plan.

  • Required findings for non-geothermal projects

    Project is not likely to interfere with existing or future development or use of the geothermal resource.

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

    Setbacks shall be as follows for the principal district with which the G district is combined.

  • Subject to other chapters

    Lands in a G combining district shall be subject to the provisions of the zoning district with which it is combined, and also to Chapters 18.102 through 18.108.

  • VarianceVariancePermission to depart from a specific dimensional rule, granted on a showing of hardship. from minimum parcel size

    Variance may be allowed if use permit granted for specified use not requiring 40 acres and not inconsistent with general plan or intent.

From the ordinance

minimum parcel size in any 'G' combining district shall be forty acres.
§ 18.90.080