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Placer County Unincorporated, California · General provision

17.46.010 (RF)

Rural ResidentialAll Placer County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin width 200 ftMIN LOT AREA10 acMAX DENSITY0.1 du/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.)
Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.
200 ft

Density

Maximum density
0.1 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.

Uses

Permitted by right5

Conditional / special use15

From the ordinance

Ten acres... Two hundred feet... The maximum density for single-family dwellings in the RF zone shall be one unit per parcel of the minimum lot area required by subsection C of this section
17.46.010 (RF)