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Orinda, California · District

RL-12

Residential Low Density—Twelve thousand square feet
ResidentialSingle FamilyAll Orinda districts0

Dimensional standards

RL-12 lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA12,000 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.
12,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.28 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Housing

Single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.
by_right
Two-family
prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Three-family
prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Four-plus family
prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.

Uses

Permitted by right10

Conditional / special use8

Prohibited6

From the ordinance

The RL-12 district encompasses parcels with a prescribed net lot size of twelve thousand (12,000) square feet. Schedule 17.3.3 lists permitted uses.
17.3.2.F and Schedule 17.3.3