Lauderhill, FL Building Setbacks & Zoning: Setback Rules (2026)

Section 3.1.1.F.5 of the Land Development Regulations lists four setback minimums for a home built in the Residential Single-Family at Four Dwelling Units Per Gross Acre (RS-4) district, Lauderhill's base single-family zoning classification. The front setback is twenty-five feet from the front property line. The rear setback is fifteen feet, but drops to just five feet when the rear property line abuts a canal or lake that carries a right-of-way at least twenty-five feet wide, recognizing that waterway frontage already buffers the home from a neighboring lot.

The side setback is seven and one-half feet, and a street-side setback, for a corner lot facing a second street or a dedicated waterway, is fifteen feet. Section 2.5 of the Regulations lists narrow exceptions that can still project into any of these required yards, arbors and trellises with a three-foot setback of their own, awnings projecting up to two and one-half feet, chimneys projecting up to three feet, and fences, walls and hedges, among others, so long as the safe-sight-triangle standard is still met at intersections and driveways.

These same figures, twenty-five, fifteen, five, seven and one-half and fifteen feet, are repeated in the RS-4A district that applies to the annexed Broward Estates and St. George neighborhoods, but change district by district elsewhere in the city.