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City of San Mateo Municipal Code.

27.04.495 YARD.

"Yard" means an open space on the same zoning plot with a principal building or group of buildings, which is unoccupied and unobstructed from its lowest level upward, except as otherwise permitted by this title.

(a) "Front yard" means a yard extending across the full width of the zoning plot and lying between the front property line and the nearest line of the principal building.

(b) "Rear yard" means a yard extending across the full width of the zoning plot and lying between the rear property line and the nearest line of the principal building.

(c) "Side yard" means the part of a yard lying between the nearest line of the principal building and a side lot line, and extending from the required front yard (or from the front line, if there is no required front yard) to the required rear yard.

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