Ramapo, NY Building Setbacks & Zoning: Structure Height Limits (2026)

Chapter 376's Article VI opens with § 376-60, which lists what the Town's height limitations do not reach. Rooftop bulkheads, elevator penthouses, water towers, fire and hose towers, cooling towers, air-cooled or evaporative condensers and coolers, exhaust fans, other air-conditioning or heating equipment, flagpoles and radio or television aerials can rise above the district's maximum height, but only if they are set back from the roof edge at least one foot for every foot they exceed that height, and only if, together, they cover no more than 10% of the roof, sit in no more than two locations, and are screened with material that matches the building's walls.

Parapet walls and cornices get a flat allowance: they may exceed the district's maximum height requirement by up to four feet with no setback or screening condition attached. Solar energy systems get the broadest exemption in the section: under § 376-60C they may be erected only to the height necessary to accomplish the purpose they are intended to serve, without a numeric cap tied to the district's base height. None of these exceptions states what the base height limit itself is for a residential district; that figure is fixed separately, by zoning district, in the § 376-41 Bulk Table referenced throughout Article IV, so the specific number for a given lot depends on which zoning district the Bulk Table places it in.