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

Section 3.1.1.F.3 of the Land Development Regulations sets the base lot-coverage standard for the Residential Single-Family at Four Dwelling Units Per Gross Acre (RS-4) district, Lauderhill's standard single-family zoning classification, at forty percent of the lot covered by impervious surface. A homeowner or builder who needs to exceed that base figure must submit sealed drawings from a Florida-registered architect, engineer or landscape architect showing an on-site retention system sized to hold the twenty-five-year, three-year storm event, and the City Engineer must approve those plans before a building permit issues for the work driving the need for extra retention.

Even with an approved retention system, Section 3.1.1.F.3 caps total lot coverage at sixty-five percent under any circumstance; there is no path to build beyond that ceiling. The same lot-coverage formula, and the same sixty-five percent hard cap, is reused with only minor numeric changes in Lauderhill's other single-family and multi-family districts, including RS-5, RS-4A and RM-22, each carried in its own Part 3.0 development-standards table under Article III. Enforcement of this and the district's other development standards falls to the Lauderhill Police Department, city inspectors and the Code Compliance Division under Section 1.7's general jurisdiction clause, the same mechanism that polices the district's setbacks and its thirty-five foot height limit.