Burleson, TX Building Setbacks & Zoning: Structure Height Limits (2026)

Residential height in the City of Burleson is written in stories. The SF7 rule, § 57-115, says no building shall exceed 2½ stories except as permitted by section 133, general height requirements. The SFE, SF16, SF10 and SFA districts carry the same 2½ story limit in their own height sections, and the SFR district adopts the SFE height rule. The 2F two-family, MH and MHP districts are held to two stories, and the A agricultural district to three stories. Among multiple-family districts, MF1 is held to 2½ stories and MF2 to three stories.

Section 133-100(a) is the exception clause. Cooling towers, roof gables, chimneys, and vent stacks can extend an additional height not to exceed 40 feet above the average grade line of a building. Water standpipes and tanks, religious institution steeples, domes and spires, school buildings, and institutional buildings can exceed three stories in residential districts restricted to two or three stories, provided that one additional foot is added to the width and depth of side and rear yards for each foot that a structure exceeds 35 feet in height. Section 133-100(c) adds that height regulations do not apply to steeples, domes and spires, or other architectural design elements, communication towers and/or antennas.

Measurement rules sit in § 50, Definitions. Height is the vertical distance from the average established grade at the street line, or from the average natural front yard ground level, whichever is higher, to the highest point of a flat roof, the deck line of a mansard roof, or the mean height level between eaves and ridge for hip and gable roofs. A basement counts as a story in computing building height and a cellar does not. Section 133-100(d) requires that height restrictions identified in the Spinks Airport Air Hazard Zoning Ordinance, adopted by Resolution No. 503, be observed.