zoneoptics
Placer County Unincorporated, California · General provision

17.56.040

All Placer County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA10 ac
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.
435,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (10 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Servicing

Applies within
2,500 ft
Geographic extent
AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. or personal use facilities shall be located only within an agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. or open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. zone, no closer than 2,500 feet to any urban area shown on the Placer County zoning maps.

Uses

Conditional / special use2

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Location for agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them./personal use

    Agricultural or personal use facilities shall be located only within an agricultural or open space zone, no closer than 2,500 feet to any urban area shown on the Placer County zoning maps.

  • Location for public use

    Public use facilities shall be located only within the Airport (APT) zone district (Section 17.36.010).

  • Location for restricted use

    Restricted use facilities shall be located outside of and not closer than 2,500 feet to any urban area shown on the Placer County zoning maps except for an emergency use heliport, which may be located within an urban area. Restricted use airfields shall be located such that aircraft in approach or departure maneuvers within two miles of the airfield do not pass within 500 feet in any direction of an existing residential use outside the ownership of the airfield; an urban area; except for an emergency heliport established to support a medical, fire protection or other public safety facility.

  • Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.435,600 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.

    Ten acres in the residential-agricultural (RA) zone; as necessary to accommodate the facilities and clear zones required by the Federal Aviation Administration in other zone districts.

  • Operational restrictions

    Agricultural or personal use facility: Based aircraft shall be limited to those used for agricultural crop dusting, or personal use of the tenant or property owner. No commercial flights other than those directly related to agricultural activities are permitted. Restricted use facilities: Not more than 10 aircraft shall be based at the facility.

From the ordinance

Agricultural or personal use facilities shall be located only within an agricultural or open space zone, no closer than 2,500 feet to any urban area shown on the Placer County zoning maps. Minimum lot area: ten acres in the residential-agricultural (RA) zone.
17.56.040