Spartanburg County's ULMO does not set a maximum lot-coverage or impervious-area percentage for single-family residential lots — density is controlled through minimum lot size, frontage and setbacks instead. Stormwater rules govern impervious area on larger land-disturbing projects.
The ULMO's residential dimensional standards (Table 3a) establish minimum lot area, lot frontage, setbacks and height, but do not impose a maximum building or impervious-surface coverage ratio for single-family lots — so the county sets no lot-coverage cap here; buildable area is defined by the required yards. The county's stormwater/land-disturbance program regulates added impervious surface on qualifying projects. The City of Spartanburg similarly controls bulk through setbacks and yard depth rather than a flat residential coverage percentage, though its buffer and parking standards limit impervious surface on larger developments.
There is no county lot-coverage violation as such; over-building is limited instead by setback enforcement and stormwater permitting.
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