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

Hialeah sets its baseline residential height cap district by district in Chapter 98, and the two most common single-family and duplex zones use the same number: 2½ stories or 35 feet. Sec. 98-498 caps the R-1 one-family district at that limit, and Sec. 98-543 applies the identical 2½-story, 35-foot cap to the R-2 one- and two-family district. Sec. 98-413(2), the chapter's general restrictions section, backs the district-specific numbers with a citywide rule: no building may be erected, reconstructed or structurally altered to exceed the height or bulk limits established for its district, meaning the R-1 and R-2 numbers aren't advisory, they're an outer ceiling enforced through the building permit process.

The R-1 district pairs its height cap with other dimensional standards under the same division: a minimum 7,500-square-foot lot with at least 75 feet of average width and 100 feet of average depth (Sec. 98-499), a 20-foot front yard (Sec. 98-500, with a porte cochere allowed to encroach up to 15 feet if its roof is architecturally integrated with the house), side yards of at least 5 feet 1 inch and no more than 7½ feet (Sec. 98-501), and a 20-foot rear yard for the principal structure with a 7½-foot rear yard for accessory buildings (Sec.

98-502). Agricultural (A) district properties share the R-1 front-yard standard and carry the same 2½-story, 35-foot height cap under Sec. 98-452, except for church spires, towers and steeples, which may exceed 35 feet.