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   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   Andy Burns wrote:   
   > J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >   
   >> Marian wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Where I live we have 40-acre zoning, so every property has to be a minimum   
   >>> of 40 acres   
   >>   
   >> So hugely different outlooks! I've never heard (though I'm sure you're   
   >> right) of a _minimum_ property size before.   
   > I had heard of the phrase    
      
   What I love about Usenet is we all work together as a team, where each   
   individual brings a completely different perspective to each discussion.   
      
   I didn't know about the "back forty" etymology, so I guess across the pond   
   it would be called the "back fifteen" (given 40 acres is 15 hectares). :)   
      
   Why 40 acres?   
      
   They don't want anyone living in the mountains out here, so they make   
   unrealistic zoning so that you can only put one house every 40 acres.   
       
    HS (Hillside District) = 40-acre minimum parcel size   
    AR (Agricultural Ranchlands District) -> 40-acre minimum parcel size   
      
   Both are codified in Chapter 2.40 of the County Ordinance Code at Section   
   2.40.110 (HS District). The verbatim wording of Section 2.40.110 (HS –   
   Hillside District) in the Santa Clara County Zoning Ordinance explicitly   
   establishes the 40‑acre minimum parcel size.   
      
   Section 2.40.110 - HS Hillside District "The HS (Hillside) district is   
   intended to preserve the natural character of the hillsides and to limit   
   development to large parcels. The minimum parcel size in the HS district   
   shall be forty (40) acres.   
      
   So if you have 79 acres, you can only put a single house on that land.   
      
   The point is that we have such large parcels that we use Wi-Fi to reach   
   hundreds of feet, which is easy for us since our radios go for miles.   
      
   I get my Internet from a mountain across from me, which is, oh, I don't   
   know, maybe 20 miles by driving but only a few miles line of sight between   
   us. I can see maybe fifty miles (I never calculated the distance though).   
      
   WISP is what we do up here in the mountains above Silicon Valley. :)   
      
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