The guidelines for construction, including bird cages, are: no closer than 5 feet from the side lot boundary and 10 feet from the rear. The problem for corner lots is that there is also a setback required from the side street to the addition. I'm not sure what the exact setback restriction is, but it probably is the same setback that houses that front onto that street must have. So, in many cases, what looks like a huge lot is actually quite small from an addition perspective.
Your sales agent can take the plot of any lot that you are interested in and place the footprint of the model house that you want over it and you can tell how much room there is for additions.
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