Paulding County, GA Building Setbacks & Zoning: Setback Rules (2026)

06 sets the R-2 Suburban Residential District's yard requirements: a 30-foot minimum public road frontage, a 100-foot minimum lot width at the building line (75 feet on a curve or cul-de-sac), a 35-foot front yard setback, a 15-foot side yard setback that increases to 25 feet on a corner lot, and a 25-foot rear yard setback. Lot size minimums run from 20,000 square feet with public sewer and water up to 43,560 square feet where the lot relies on an on-site sewage system and a non-public water supply, subject to the Office of Environmental Health's on-site sewage manual.

1 in Chapter 240, which sets comparable but district-specific setbacks: R-1 requires a 40-foot front setback with 20-foot sides (25 on a corner), R-3 drops to a 30-foot front and 12-foot sides, and MHP manufactured home parks require a full 40 feet on every side. Two general rules layer on top of every district's numbers. Section 240-70 makes the side yard setback for any corner lot adjacent to a local street 25 feet in every zoning district unless another section says otherwise, and it deems the lot's front to be whichever street has the shorter frontage.

Section 240-80 requires a double-frontage lot, one touching two roads, to meet the full front-yard setback on both road frontages, not just one. Section 240-90 lets a substandard lot of record reduce its yards only to the smallest amount that still allows reasonable use, and never below half of the least restrictive district's minimums, unless the Zoning Board of Appeals approves further relief.