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

Sec. 1106A of the Zoning Ordinance (Appendix IV) sets the development standards for R-6 districts (Article 11A), the county's higher-density cluster/condo/townhome/patio-home category. Item F caps 'maximum impervious surface coverage' at twenty-five (25) percent of the lot, a limit that covers rooftops, driveways, parking areas and any other paved or built surface, not just the building footprint. The same section pairs that cap with density (six units per net developable acre, item B), a 100-foot front setback from county arterial and collector rights-of-way (item D), a 25-foot side and rear setback (item E), and a 35-foot maximum building height that can rise to 60 feet if the structure carries an approved sprinkler system and wins special-exception approval under Sec.

413 (item G). Not every district in the county carries a numeric lot-coverage cap: the large-lot AR-2 and R-1 districts, built around five-acre and two-acre minimum lots, regulate development through minimum lot size and setbacks rather than a coverage percentage, so R-6's 25 percent standard is specific to that denser district and to comparable planned-development standards elsewhere in Appendix IV, for example a 25 percent building-coverage cap for planned apartment communities under Sec. 905 and a 50 percent cap for multi-family in planned residential development under Sec.

1706. A property owner should confirm the district shown on the county's official zoning map (Sec. 2301) before assuming which coverage figure, if any, applies.