Beloit, WI Building Setbacks & Zoning: Structure Height Limits (2026)

1 sets a maximum height of 2½ stories or 35 feet, whichever governs, in the R-1A, R-1B and R-2 districts, which cover Beloit's single-family and two-family neighborhoods. The R-3 low-density multifamily and R-4 moderate-density multifamily districts carry no maximum height entry in the table at all, listed simply as "No max," reflecting their role as the city's denser multifamily zones. 5(a) defines how height is measured: the vertical distance from curb level, or its equivalent, opposite the center of the front of the building, up to the highest point of the underside of the ceiling beams for a flat roof, the deck line for a mansard roof, or the mean level of the underside of the rafters between eaves and ridge for a gable, hip or gambrel roof.

That measurement method applies uniformly regardless of which district's height cap governs, so a builder in R-1A calculating whether a design stays under 35 feet uses the same curb-level starting point as a project in a district with no cap at all. Because the 2½-story/35-foot cap sits in the same table as the lot area, density and setback standards, a height violation is treated the same as any other dimensional-standards violation under Article VII.