How do you convert linear square feet to square feet?

[Jim McGrath]

And road frontage, which in this area can define or exclude a property as a buildable lot!

Lee Ann, I have never seen linear feet used in lot measurements. I believe linear means in a straight line, and many lots are not truly straight. Different areas have different customs, we generally have something like, 75 foot of frontage.

Jim M

 

[Farm Gal]

Jim:
Note my address: Kansas...

Where the one mile grid REALLY means something, and most rural properties are 'metes and bounds' on a dirt road with neighbors far distant...

Even intown lots and streets tend to be marked out on straight-line, as measured from the one mile grid farms they were prior to conversion to urban plats! (Very little imagination in the original surveyors methods, much of the town was documented as being platted with whatever combination of leather reins, iron chains, string (and for all I know RIBBON) used by the founding fathers! There are some interesting discrepancies where certain errors got corrected many years later. Some of the compounded errors got pretty wild.

Linear feet of road frontage is something we have to pay attention to - particularly in those counties who have come to the recent revelation that unless they want to prevent doughnuthole/access messes, they need to require a reasonable distance between driveways :roll: This is also part of the move to restrict subdivision to properly surveyed and divided lots and to preserve some of the larger pieces of farmland for farming purposes.

Nice that you live in an area where you only need to worry about feets!

 

[Larry Lyke]

Linear is used when its the dimension that controls.

In countertops, unless you want a special-makeup depth, you buy the standard depth, WHICH is sold/priced by the lineal foot. AKA running foot.

Overhead cabinets are usually 1 foot deep including the face frame, which holds the door but doesn't include the door in the depth dimension scheme of things.

All perimeter measurements are linear lines. Depending on the shape, depends on how many lines makes a closed plane.

There's only 3 possible dimensions to shape: one never-ending line; one or more closed-lines (plane); cube (plane with a 3rd dimension, makes for depth).