Kenner, LA Building Setbacks & Zoning: Structure Height Limits (2026)

Section 6.05(f)(1) of the Kenner Unified Development Code opens the Site Development Regulations for the single-family R-1, R-1A and RR-1 districts with a flat rule: no building shall exceed 35 feet in height. The same 35-foot ceiling is repeated for the R-2 Two-Family district in Section 6.07(d)(1) and for the R-3 Three-and-Four-Family district in Section 6.08(d)(1). The Multi-Family Residential district (R-Mf) is treated differently: Section 6.09(d)(1) allows buildings up to 60 feet, but any building over 35 feet must add three inches of extra side yard width for every foot of height above 35 feet, and a street side yard on a corner lot grows by the same three-inch-per-foot ratio once the building passes 35 feet.

The height cap is administered by the Director of the Planning and Zoning Department under Section 4.02, and no building permit issues under Section 4.03 until submitted plans show compliance. A property owner seeking relief from the 35-foot cap must apply to the Board of Zoning Adjustments for a variance and satisfy all nine hardship findings required by Section 4.03(c)(3)(e), including that the hardship was not created by the applicant and that granting it will not confer a special privilege denied to other lots in the same district. The Board cannot grant a use variance, since that would constitute an impermissible spot zone under the UDC's zoning-amendment standards.