zoneoptics
Placer County Unincorporated, California · General provision

Section 17.56.100

All Placer County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA2.3 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.
100,188 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (2.3 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Density

Maximum units
12

Parking

Minimum spacesMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open.
1

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Maximum tent/RV use days annually in FOR and TPZ zones90 days

    In the FOR and TPZ zone districts, tents, recreational vehicles or other mobile camping equipment for agricultural farm employees may be used for up to 90 days annually.

  • Maximum tent/RV use days per 180-day period30 days

    The use of tents, recreational vehicles or other mobile camping equipment for agricultural farm employees shall not occur for more than 30 calendar days in any 180 consecutive day period.

  • Minimum setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from barns/livestock75 ft

    Farmworker housing shall be located not less than 75 feet from barns, pens, or other structures that house livestock or poultry.

  • Minimum setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential zoning200 ft

    On parcels adjacent to residential multifamily (RM) or residential single-family (RS) zoned property, year-round farmworker housing must be set back a minimum of 200 feet from the property line.

  • Minimum sleeping area per occupant in group quarters50 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.

    For farmworker housing complexes in group living quarters, the minimum floor area used for sleeping purposes is 50 square feet for each occupant.

From the ordinance

The minimum parcel size for farmworker housing shall be 2.3 acres. Farmworker housing shall be located not less than 75 feet from barns... and 200 feet from residential zoning.
Section 17.56.100

Parking requirements

{
  "farmworker_dwelling_unit": "1 space per unit",
  "farmworker_housing_complex": "1 per unit or 1 per 3 beds, whichever more, plus 1 per employee"
}