Inglewood, CA Building Setbacks & Zoning: Lot Coverage Limits (2026)

The R-M Residential and Medical Zone permits hospitals, convalescent facilities, long-term health facilities, and hospices alongside residential uses, and its lot coverage rule scales with building height rather than staying fixed. 26 sets the baseline at sixty percent of the lot for any development where the tallest structure is six stories or less. For each story added above six, the maximum coverage drops by four percentage points, so a nine-story building, three stories over the six-story baseline, would be limited to forty-eight percent lot coverage.

The one carve-out is for residential buildings built in conformance with the R-3 Multiple-Family Zone standards, which follow the R-3 coverage rules instead of this sliding scale. 21 (with a Special Use Permit exception for hospital structures that exceed six stories), a fifteen-foot front yard, a ten-foot side yard, and a twenty-foot rear yard. The Planning and Building Department checks lot coverage against these percentages during plan check for any new building permit or addition in the R-M zone, and a project that exceeds the sliding-scale cap cannot be approved without a variance.