But you can have 5 recs without being commercial(needing a permit) so 500 sqft. Not great for outdoors but still doable.
Here in good ol' butte county, all i could grow LEGITLY outdoors this year was 100sqft period. All of the plant has to be in a "glass box" within that 100sqft too. Thats it! Maximum. And that's on five acres. Some serious bullshit.
And now, at my primary residence in Paradise, thay are working to ban all things medical. They are trying to make it illegal to grow anything indoors too, like Merced just did. Wtf is up rite?