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Mendocino County Unincorporated, California · General provision

Sec. 20.032.045(D)

All Mendocino County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA10 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.
435,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (10 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

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

Noise

  • Noise limit

    Noise created by the operation shall not exceed the levels specified in Appendix C.

Other

  • Milling machinery distance from property line200 ft

    Milling machinery shall not be located closer than two hundred (200) feet from the nearest property line

  • Maximum building area5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.

    Maximum building area shall not exceed 5,000 square feet if the structure is pre-existing

  • Maximum daily production3,000 board feet

    Production shall not exceed three thousand (3,000) board feet in any day

  • Combined horsepower of engines/motors75 hp

    Combined horsepower of all engines or motors used in the milling process shall not exceed seventy-five (75)

  • Maximum monthly production30,000 board feet

    or thirty thousand (30,000) board feet in any month

  • Maximum new building area2,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.

    any new building area shall be limited to 2,000 square feet as per cottage industries

  • Maximum area encompassed by operation1 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.

    Maximum area encompassed by operation shall not exceed one (1) acre

  • Maximum number of workers3 workers

    A maximum of three (3) workers/employees including the owner/operator

  • Log/lumber storage distance from property line50 ft

    Log/lumber storage and similar uses accessory to the milling operation shall not be located closer than fifty (50) feet from the nearest property line

  • Distance from Class I or II stream100 ft

    All equipment and materials associated with the milling operation shall not be located closer than one hundred (100) feet from any Class I or Class II stream

From the ordinance

Portable Sawmills ... subject to the following limitations: ...
Sec. 20.032.045(D)