Granville County, NC Building Setbacks & Zoning: Setback Rules (2026)

On a standard 44,000-square-foot lot in AR-40, the minimum setbacks are a 50-foot street yard, 15-foot side yard and 25-foot rear yard; those numbers repeat for R-25 and the Mobile Home Park District (MHPD). Any lot of two acres or more in AR-80, AR-40, R-25 or MHPD gets a wider yard: 50 feet street, 25 feet side and 50 feet rear. The Highway Business District requires 50 feet street, 25 feet side and 25 feet rear, while the Neighborhood Business District tightens the side yard to 10 feet on the same 50/25 street/rear pattern.

The Office/Institutional District matches Highway Business at 50/25/25. Industrial land is different: Prime Industrial (I-1), built on five-acre minimum lots, requires 75 feet street, 50 feet side and 50 feet rear with no maximum building height, while General Industrial (I-2), on 10,000-square-foot lots, drops to a 40-foot street yard and allows zero side and zero rear yard, also with no height cap. A footnote to the table lets uncovered stairs, landings, terraces, porches, balconies and fire escapes project up to seven feet into any required setback, provided they stay at least ten feet from the property line; chimneys, flues, sills, eaves, belt courses and similar architectural projections may also intrude into a setback as long as they stop at least seven feet short of the line.

The land development administrator applies these standards during zoning permit review, and any dimensional table used for another site plan, such as the planned unit development lot standards in table 04.110, is measured against this same bulk-standards article.