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San Joaquin County Unincorporated, California · District

AU

Agricultural Urban Reserve
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Dimensional standards

AU lot requirementsSTREETSTREETbuildable areaFront 30 ftRear 30 ftSide 10 ftStreet side 55 ftMin width 330 ftMIN LOT AREA20 acMAX HEIGHT40 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.
871,200 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (20 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.
330 ft

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

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
30 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
30 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
10 ft
Street sideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
55 ft

Height & bulk

Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
40 ft

Uses

Permitted by right9

Conditional / special use8

Accessory25

Prohibited4

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Firewood sales origin

    Firewood Sales only if grown on-site or within a five-mile radius of the site

From the ordinance

Agricultural zones: AG, AI, AL, AU; accessory uses table; development standards.
Tables 9-203.020-1, 9-203.020-2, 9-203.030