Garland, TX Building Setbacks & Zoning: Setback Rules (2026)

34 sets the baseline: yards adjacent to streets must meet the minimum yard requirements in Table 2-3 or Table 2-4 depending on the district, measured from the existing or future right-of-way line, whichever requires the greater setback, and the same tables control yards that don't face a street. Builders get some numeric flexibility written directly into the Code: the minimum front yard setback on curved street sections may be reduced by up to five feet, but never below ten feet, and a subdivision can stagger front setbacks lot to lot by up to five feet as long as the block-face average still meets the district standard, with no more than three adjacent lots getting the reduction.

36(C) fixes specific numbers for zero-lot-line homes in the SF-E, SF-10, SF-7 and SF-5 districts: one interior side yard drops to zero feet, the other side yard must be at least ten feet, the minimum side yard on a standard (non-key-corner) lot is fifteen feet, and it rises to twenty feet on a key corner lot, with a five-foot maintenance easement required on the neighboring lot. 39(F) requires a minimum twenty-foot separation between multifamily buildings, and any part of an MF building over forty-five feet tall next to a single-family district must step back within a forty-five-degree slope line measured from the residential property line.