Cocoa, FL Building Setbacks & Zoning: Lot Coverage Limits (2026)

Appendix A, Article XI, Section 1(E) of the Cocoa Code of Ordinances sets the bulk regulations for the RE Residential Estate District in a single table: a minimum lot area of 20,000 square feet, minimum lot width of 100 feet, minimum lot depth of 150 feet, a maximum lot coverage of twenty percent, a minimum living area of 1,600 square feet, and a maximum height of 35 feet. The twenty percent coverage cap means that on the smallest conforming RE lot, the house, garage, pool deck and every other roofed or paved accessory structure counted toward coverage cannot together exceed 4,000 square feet of the parcel, leaving the remaining eighty percent as yard, landscaping or open space.

Because RE is the city's estate-density district, meant for the largest and most spacious single-family lots, its twenty-percent ceiling is tighter than districts built around denser development, where the multifamily and mobile-home cooperative sections of Article XI allow coverage in the thirty-to-forty percent range. A property owner has to add the footprint of covered patios, garages, sheds and other accessory structures listed under Section 1(B) into the same coverage calculation as the main house, since the bulk table caps total lot coverage rather than just the principal building.