zoneoptics
Oakland, California · General provision

16.28.070

All Oakland districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA25,000 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.
25,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.57 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Servicing

Geographic extent
Applies to hillside subdivisions where lots average more than one acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones. (Section 16.28.060 applies)

Extracted standards

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Other

From the ordinance

Before any subdivider may file a map of a subdivision of hillside lands wherein the provisions of Section 16.28.060 are applicable, he or she shall first apply for, and obtain, unless the land to be included in the division shall then be in such district, a change of the district to the residential classification requiring a minimum lot size of twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet.
16.28.070