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Nevada County Unincorporated, California · General provision

Section 12.02.021.A.1

Single FamilyAll Nevada County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA1.5 acMAX DENSITY0.67 du/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.
65,340 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (1.5 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Density

Maximum density
0.67 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.

Uses

Permitted by right2

Conditional / special use10

Prohibited1

From the ordinance

The RA District establishes provisions for low density single-family dwellings... at densities equivalent to one and one-half (1.5) acre minimum parcel size, or three (3) acre minimum parcel size where neither a public water nor public sewer system is available.
Section 12.02.021.A.1