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Madera County Unincorporated, California · District

ARE-40

Agricultural, Rural, Exclusive, Forty Acre District
AgriculturalRuralAll Madera County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

ARE-40 lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA36 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.
1,568,160 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (36 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Uses

Permitted by right1

From the ordinance

ARE-40 requires minimum thirty-six-acre parcels.
18.58.010