Boca Raton, FL Building Setbacks & Zoning: Structure Height Limits (2026)

Sec. 28-342(1) sets the baseline: no building or structure in a single-family residential district may be erected or altered to a height exceeding 25 feet. The code then carves out a specific roof exception rather than a blanket allowance, portions of a pitched roof, not exceeding 40 percent of the total roof area, may rise to a maximum of 35 feet measured from established grade, but no part of the finished roof may go beyond that 35-foot ceiling under any circumstance. 5-in-12 slope are held to the strict 25-foot line with no 35-foot exception whatsoever.

Permitted nonresidential buildings and structures in these single-family districts get a higher allowance, up to 50 feet, reflecting uses like churches, schools or utility buildings that the code separately allows as conditional uses under Sec. 28-340. For features exceeding the district's height regulation, uninhabitable scenery lofts, towers, cupolas, steeples, domes, flagpoles, antennas, chimneys, tanks and similar rooftop structures capped collectively at 30 percent of roof area, Sec. 28-342(2) requires conditional use approval from the city council after review by the community appearance board, which weighs the feature's compatibility with the surrounding area's architectural character, its proportion to the building it's attached to, and its compatibility with adjoining land uses.