Bulloch County, GA Building Setbacks & Zoning: Lot Coverage Limits (2026)

Section 806 of the Zoning Ordinance (Appendix C, Article 8) is the development standards table for the county's commercial and industrial districts: Highway Commercial (HC), General Commercial (GC), Neighborhood Commercial (NC), Light Industrial (LI) and Heavy Industrial (HI). Under the row labeled \"Lot Coverage (Maximum)\" the table prints a single value, 80 percent, in the HC column, with the GC, NC, LI and HI columns left blank in the printed table, meaning the ordinance imposes its explicit maximum lot coverage limit specifically on the Highway Commercial district.

That figure sits in the same table as the district's other dimensional standards: HC also carries a 100-foot minimum lot width, a 35-foot front-yard setback, a 15-foot interior side setback, a 15-foot rear setback, and a 45-foot maximum habitable building height. The Section 806 general provisions clarify that open space required by the ordinance, including any area counted against the lot-coverage limit, may not be encroached upon except in conformity with the yard, setback, and other development standards, and that shrubbery, driveways, retaining walls, fences, curbs and buffers are not counted as encroachments.

The building and zoning official may authorize a 15 percent bonus incentive for increased floor area ratio or net density where a development meets performance standards and offers amenities under Sections 1212 and 1213. Bulloch County's residential development standards table at Section 606 does not include a lot-coverage row at all, so the 80 percent HC figure is the ordinance's only explicit numeric lot-coverage ceiling.