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Orange County Unincorporated, California · General provision

Sec. 7-9-23.3, 7-9-24.2, 7-9-24.4, 7-9-24.7, 7-9-24.10

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Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaRear 15 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.

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

RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
15 ft

Extracted standards

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

Height

Other

  • Dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. rounding

    Numerical quantities and the result of a calculation that contain a fraction of a whole number, shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number.

  • Fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. measurement

    Fence/wall heights shall be measured from the base of the fence/wall to the top on interior or exterior side, whichever is greater.

  • Floor area definition

    The sum of the gross horizontal floor area of all floors of a building or other enclosed structure measured from the exterior finished wall surface measured in square feet.

  • General rounding

    Fractions of one-half (0.5) or greater shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number, and fractions of less than one-half (0.5) shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number, except as otherwise provided.

  • Rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. reduction for alley15 ft

    In computing the depth or a rear setback from any building where such setback opens on alley, private street, public park or public beach, one-half (0.5) of the width of such alley, street, park or beach may be deemed to be a portion of the rear setback, except that under this provision, no rear setback shall be less than fifteen (15) feet.

  • Site coverage exclusions

    Unenclosed decks, patio slabs, porches, landings, balconies, and stairways less than eighteen (18) inches in height at the surface of the deck and less than six (6) feet above grade for railings. Swimming pools and hot tubs not enclosed in roofed structures or decks. One (1) small, non-habitable accessory structure under one hundred twenty (120) square feet in area.

From the ordinance

Fractions of one-half (0.5) or greater shall be rounded up... no rear setback shall be less than fifteen (15) feet... Height is the vertical distance from finished grade to the highest point...
Sec. 7-9-23.3, 7-9-24.2, 7-9-24.4, 7-9-24.7, 7-9-24.10