Unincorporated Chatham County's residential and nonresidential R-district schedules cap maximum building height at 36 feet (Sec. 4-6.1 and 4-6.2). Sec. 5-2 exempts features such as church spires, cupolas, water towers, chimneys, flag poles and radio or television towers from those height limits.
The county's development-standard schedules set a maximum building height of 36 feet for dwellings (Sec. 4-6.1) and for uses in the R-A, R-1, R-1-A, R-1-B, R-1-C and R-2 districts (Sec. 4-6.2). Sec. 5-2 lists structures excluded from those height limits, including a church spire, belfry, cupola or dome, ornamental tower not intended for human occupancy, monument, water tower, observation tower, transmission tower, chimney, smoke stack, conveyor, flag pole, radio or television tower, mast or aerial, and a parapet wall not extending more than four feet above the roof line. Beyond these exemptions, structures over 36 feet require a variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals.
Building above the 36-foot limit without a variance can block a permit or certificate of occupancy and trigger code-enforcement action requiring corrective work or a variance approval.
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