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Madera County Unincorporated, California · General provision

18.60.010

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Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA80 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.
3,484,800 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (80 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

From the ordinance

ARE-80-640 requires minimum eighty-acre parcels, primarily grazing land.
18.60.010