Wayne County, IN Building Setbacks & Zoning: Lot Coverage Limits (2026)

Wayne County Code § 156.151(C) sets the full dimensional package for the A-4 Agriculture Preservation District, a zone created to keep intensive agriculture as the principal land use and to disallow uses that remove land from production. Under (C)(4), no more than 1% of the land on an A-4 parcel may be covered by structures, one of the tightest lot-coverage figures in the Wayne County zoning code. That coverage cap sits alongside (C)(5), requiring at least 660 feet of lot frontage, and (C)(6), requiring at least 20 acres per lot, though smaller parcels can qualify if adjacent to other 'A3C' districts.

Front yard depth under (C)(1) is 120 feet from the centerline on both two-lane and four-lane federal and state highways and 100 feet from the centerline of other roads and streets, while (C)(2) and (C)(3) set 25-foot minimum side and rear yards. Section 156.151(C)(7) then locks the district in place: once a parcel is rezoned into A-4, no further rezoning of that land is permitted for ten years, reinforcing the coverage and frontage limits against quick reversal. Section 156.152 separately bars any subdivision of A-4 land altogether.