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

Section 30-114(2) sets the maximum building height for Homestead's standard single-family district in one sentence: 'The maximum building height shall be three (3) stories or thirty-five (35) feet.' Because the code phrases the limit as stories or feet without specifying which controls, the 35-foot cap functions as the binding number even for a building that could otherwise squeeze a third story under that height. The identical three-story/35-foot standard is repeated for the A-1 one-acre estate district in § 30-83(12) and the A-2 half-acre estate district in § 30-98(11), and again for the R-2 district in § 30-127(2), so every core single-family and low-density multifamily zone in the city shares the same ceiling.

Height limits climb sharply once a parcel is zoned for commercial use. Section 30-257 allows buildings in the B-1 restricted retail commercial district to reach 'seventy (70) feet or six (6) stories whichever is less,' roughly double the residential limit. A homeowner or builder checking a specific project's ceiling needs to confirm the parcel's zoning district first, since Chapter 30 sets the number district-by-district rather than as one citywide rule, and a variance from the Board of Adjustment is required to exceed the applicable limit.