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Mendocino County Unincorporated, California · General provision

Sec. 20.032.030

All Mendocino County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA40,000 sq 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.
40,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.92 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Coop/pens distance from habitation50 ft

    Maintained in coops or pens located at a distance of fifty (50) feet or more from buildings used for human habitation

  • Coop/pens location

    Coops or pens shall be located only on the rear one-third (⅓) of the lot

  • Coop/pens distance from side or rear property line5 ft

    Coops or pens shall be located no closer than five (5) feet from the side or rear property line.

  • Maximum number of animals6 animals

    No more than six (6) of any one (1) or combination of such animals on the lot

  • Maximum parcel size40,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.

    on parcels forty thousand (40,000) square feet or less in size

From the ordinance

Animal raising—personal means the raising of hen chickens or rabbits for personal use on parcels forty thousand (40,000) square feet or less in size in accordance with the following criteria: ...
Sec. 20.032.030