Placer County Unincorporated, California · General provision
17.54.020
Dimensional standards
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Architectural features 15% higher15 pct
Chimneys, vents, and other architectural or mechanical appurtenances on buildings may be a maximum of 15% higher than the height limit of the applicable zone.
- Public buildings up to 50 ft50 ft
may be erected to a maximum height of 50 feet
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase for sloping lots
The maximum allowed height for a dwelling on a site with slope between 15 and twenty-two and one-half (22½) percent may be increased over the five feet specified above by the same proportion that the actual site slope exceeds 15%.
From the ordinance
In a zone district with a height limit of less than 50 feet, public and quasi-public buildings, communications equipment buildings, schools, houses of worship, hospitals, and other institutions permitted in the zone, may be erected to a maximum height of 50 feet; provided, that all required setbacks shall be increased by one foot for each one foot of height that the building exceeds the normal height limit established by the zone.