Shreveport's Unified Development Code sets two separate caps on every lot: maximum building coverage and maximum impervious surface. Table 4-1 fixes both by zoning district, so a large-lot R-A parcel is held far tighter than a small R-1-5 lot.
Building coverage counts the portion of the lot covered by buildings and accessory structures. Impervious surface coverage counts structures, pavement and everything else water cannot soak through. In R-A the caps are 25 percent building coverage and 40 percent impervious. R-1-7 allows 50 percent building coverage and 60 percent impervious. R-1-5 allows 55 percent and 65 percent. R-2, R-3 and R-4 allow 45 percent building coverage for detached, attached, two-family and townhouse dwellings, with 70 percent impervious. Pervious concrete and open grid paving count as half impervious when installed without a barrier to infiltration.
Coverage over the district cap blocks the building permit. Building without one draws UDC enforcement, with each day counted as a separate offense.
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