Placer County Unincorporated
Zoning districts
10 districts, grouped by category.
Commercial
9- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
- Min lot
- 100,000 sq ft (2.3 ac)
- Min lot
- 20,000 sq ft (0.46 ac)
- Min lot
- 3,000 sq ft
- Min lot
- 4,000 sq ft
- Min lot
- 40,000 sq ft (0.92 ac)
- Min lot
- 43,560 sq ft (1 ac)
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Min lot
- 8,000 sq ft
General provisions
473 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
The sign(s) shall comply with the following criteria: A. The planning director or designee shall determine the appropriate size for public notification sign(s) but in no event shall the size of a sign exceed four feet tall by eight feet wide, mounted on four inch by four inch posts;
Fifty feet. Other minimum lot widths may be required by a -B combining district (Section 17.52.040) applicable to the site. ... A 10 feet front and street-side setback (or outside a minimum twelve and one-half (12.5) foot multi-purpose easement or public utility easement that is adjacent to any public roadways, streets or driveways).
Any contract entered into after August 12, 1998 may be rescinded by the parties upon their mutual agreement in order to simultaneously enter into an open space easement agreement pursuant to the Open Space Easement Act of 1974 (Chapter 6.6, commencing with Section 51070), provided that the easement is consistent with the Act for the duration of the original Williamson Act contract.
A moveable tiny house shall be located at a fire separation distance of at least four feet from an adjacent lot line and at least 10 feet from any other structures on the premises.
This chapter applies to all land uses and development within the unincorporated areas of Placer County as provided by this section, including land uses and development undertaken by units of government; except that uses and development located within the areas covered by the community plans listed below
All land use permit applications that have been determined to be complete as provided by California Government Code Section 65943 before the effective date of this chapter or any amendment, shall be processed according to the regulations and requirements in effect at the time the application was accepted as complete.
Nothing in this chapter shall eliminate the need for obtaining any other required permits, including, but not limited to, those required by Chapters 15 and 16 of this code, such as building permits, plumbing, electrical, or mechanical permits, grading permits, the approval of a parcel or final map, or any permit, approval or entitlement required by other chapters of this code or the regulations of any county department or other public agency, including, but not limited to, authority to construct or permit to operate from the Placer County air pollution control district, or lake and streambed alteration agreements from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
When interpreting and applying the regulations of this chapter, all provisions shall be considered to be the minimum requirements, unless stated otherwise (e.g., height limits for buildings and structures, building coverage, and the numbers and size of signs allowed are maximums, not minimums).
If there is uncertainty about the location of any zoning boundary or other line on the official zoning maps, the following procedures shall be used in resolving the uncertainty: ...
If a proposed use of land is not specifically listed in Articles 17.06 through 17.52 (Zone Districts and Allowable Uses of Land), the use shall not be allowed, except as follows: The planning director may determine that a proposed use not listed in Articles 17.06 through 17.52 is allowable if the director finds all of the following: ...
If conflicts occur between different requirements of this chapter, or between this chapter and other provisions of the Placer County Code or between the Placer County Code and any applicable state law, the most restrictive shall apply.
If any chapter, section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of the zoning ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid, unconstitutional or unenforceable, such decisions shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the zoning ordinance.
If any of the definitions in this article conflict with definitions in other chapters of the County Code, these definitions prevail for the purposes of this chapter.
In order to classify and regulate the use of land... the unincorporated area of Placer County except for the area covered by the Squaw Valley Land Use Ordinance... shall be divided into the following zone and combining districts
No use of land, buildings or structures shall be established, constructed, reconstructed, altered, allowed or replaced unless: 1. The land use... is identified by Sections 17.06.050... as being allowable in the zone and combining district applicable to the site; and 2. Any land use permit required by this chapter is obtained before the proposed use is constructed
Multifamily dwellings are only permitted through density bonus (Section 17.54.120)
Single-family dwellings are only permitted as part of cluster lot developments (Section 17.54.115)
Permitted only where the parcel on which the proposed use would be located is adjacent to commercially zoned property, and is adjacent to a major arterial roadway
Only permitted as a secondary use (e.g., offices) existing on the same parcel
See also 'Storage, Accessory' (Section 17.56.250)
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.