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Madera County Unincorporated, California · District

ARE-20

Agricultural, Rural, Exclusive, Twenty Acre District
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Dimensional standards

ARE-20 lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA18 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.
784,080 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (18 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

From the ordinance

ARE-20 requires minimum eighteen-acre parcels.
18.56.010