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Lassen County Unincorporated, California · General provision

§ 18.108.240

All Lassen County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA7,500 sq ftMAX HEIGHT15 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.
7,500 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.

Height & bulk

Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
15 ft

Servicing

Geographic extent
Applies to guesthouses

Extracted standards

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

Height

Use

  • Construction order

    No guesthouse shall be constructed prior to construction of the main dwelling.

  • Kitchen prohibition

    No kitchen or cooking facilities shall be permitted in any such guesthouse.

  • One guesthouse per parcel

    There shall be not more than one guesthouse per parcel.

  • Separate parcel prohibition

    A guesthouse shall not occupy a parcel separate from that of the main dwelling.

From the ordinance

A guesthouse shall not exceed fifteen feet in height or the height of the primary residence (whichever is greater), unless a design review application is approved, in which case a guesthouse may be up to thirty-five feet tall. A guesthouse shall not be placed on a lot of less than seven thousand five hundred square feet.
§ 18.108.240