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

3(K) counts two things together: the footprint of all buildings and all parking. A TR-zoned townhouse project therefore cannot pave its way around the limit, because surface parking draws from the same 50 percent budget as the structures themselves. The section's other minimum standards shape what sits inside that footprint. No more than 20 dwelling units may form a single building. Setbacks and roof lines must be varied by at least two feet, so that no more than three adjoining dwellings within a single building share the same front setback or roof line, a requirement that forces visual breaks along a townhouse row instead of one flat, continuous facade.

Where more than one building occupies a lot, building separations follow the Standard Building Code, per an amendment adopted 03/03/04. The 50 percent figure belongs to the TR district alone. Other Fulton County zoning districts set their own coverage percentages, so the number that governs a specific parcel depends on how it is zoned. The standard also reaches only unincorporated Fulton County; Atlanta, Sandy Springs, and the county's other incorporated cities apply their own zoning codes.