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Madera County Unincorporated, California · General provision

18.94.030

All Madera County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA1 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.
43,560 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (1 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

No such use shall be permitted on a lot of less than one acre. No building, other than one used only for residence purposes, shall be closer than fifty feet to the lot line of adjoining lot in a district permitting residential use.
18.94.030