Lee's Summit, MO Building Setbacks & Zoning: Structure Height Limits (2026)

060 applies. AG, RDR, and RLL cap at 40 feet, as do R-1 and RP-1 at 40 feet and three stories. RP-2 also holds at 40 feet (3 stories), RP-3 rises to 45 feet (3 stories), and RP-4 multifamily reaches 50 feet (4 stories). PRO, NFO, and TNZ each cap at 40 feet (3 stories); CP-1 tops out lowest among commercial districts at 35 feet, CP-2 and CS at 40 to 50 feet, and CBD reaches 50 feet (4 stories). The PO office district allows the tallest by-right structures at 75 feet (5 stories); PI has no numeric maximum, AZ (airport zoning) follows FAA-approved heights, and PMIX heights are set individually through the planned-development approval.

1 exempts agricultural buildings such as barns, silos, windmills, and grain elevators (but not dwellings), and industrial cooling towers or gas holders required for a manufacturing process. a lets public or semi-public buildings such as hospitals, hotels, churches, or schools rise to 75 feet if the yards on all sides grow one additional foot for every foot the building exceeds the district's normal limit. b lets parapet walls and false mansards extend up to six feet above the height limit, and allows flagpoles, chimneys, cooling towers, elevator bulkheads, penthouses, radio and television towers, cupolas, domes, spires, and standpipes to exceed the cap under separately adopted city ordinances. 530, which requires clear and convincing evidence tied to the land, not the owner's personal circumstances.