XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-03 16:43, Marian wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   I have that document downloaded to my Mac right now.   
      
   Article 2, Section 2.40 deals with (and this is right on the first page):   
      
   "Commercial and Industrial Base Districts (CN, CG, OA, ML, MH)"   
      
   Article 2, Section 2.20 deals with:   
      
   "Rural Base Districts (A, AR, HS, RR)"   
      
   So you're either reading off an older version of the document you'd   
   previously acquired...   
      
   ...or the supposed degree man cannot read!   
      
   Furthermore, there is not "Section 2.40.110", nor does 2.20.110 (section   
   2.20 having already been established as the section regarding the HS   
   zoning district)...   
      
   ...and the words "natural character" appear NOWHERE in the entire   
   document, regardless of section.=   
      
   Oops.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)