Lubbock, TX Building Setbacks & Zoning: Structure Height Limits (2026)

UDC § 39.02.023, Table 39.02.023-1, defines building height as "the vertical distance from the grade level of that portion of a parcel covered by the building to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof, or the deck line of a mansard roof, or to the average height between eaves and the ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof." Table 39.02.004.b-2 sets the SF-1 maximum at 35 feet for both the conventional and cluster subdivision types, applying to principal structures; the same table governs accessory-structure height in SF-1.

By contrast, Table 39.02.004.a-2 allows up to 45 feet in the RE district, and other residential tiers (SF-2, MDR, HDR) carry their own separate maximums rather than one citywide number. Section 39.02.024.b.1 exempts penthouse or roof structures housing elevators, stairways, tanks, or ventilating fans, plus fire or parapet walls, skylights, attached towers, steeples, flagpoles, chimneys, smokestacks, water tanks, silos, and grain elevators from the height cap, though § 39.02.024.b.2 bars using that exempt space for additional floor area. A builder can also exceed the district maximum through the Setback Plane rule in § 39.02.024.b.3: on all property lines except the front lot line that abut residentially zoned property, every foot of height added above the cap must be matched with an extra foot of setback.