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Merced County Unincorporated, California · General provision

R-1-5000 Single-Family Residential Zone

Single FamilyAll Merced County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 20 ftRear 10 ftMIN 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.)

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
20 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
10 ft

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

The minimum parcel size is one net acre when septic tanks are used. Front setbacks for carports and garages facing the front parcel line shall be a minimum of 20 feet. The rear setback may be a minimum of 10 feet if a side setback width is a minimum of 15 feet with outdoor access.
R-1-5000 Single-Family Residential Zone