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Centennial, Colorado · District

RA

Residential Agricultural District
ResidentialAgricultural ResidentialAll Centennial districts0

Dimensional standards

RA lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 25 ftRear 25 ftSide 15 ftMIN LOT AREA20,000 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.
20,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.46 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

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

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

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Maximum nonresidential floor area based on street type10,000 sf

    Collector: 10,000 sf.

  • Maximum nonresidential floor area based on street type5,000 sf

    Local: 5,000 sf.

From the ordinance

Minimum Area of Parcel Proposed for Development: RA 20,000 sf.
Table 12-3-701