Roseville, CA Building Setbacks & Zoning: Structure Height Limits (2026)

030(A), the Residential Zone General Development Standards table sets a flat 35-foot height limit across the city's core single-family and duplex districts: R1, RS (with either an attached or a separated sidewalk configuration) and R2. The R3 multi-family district gets a 45-foot allowance, but table Note (5) pulls that back to 35 feet for any R3 residential unit sited immediately adjacent to an R1 or RS district, so a taller R3 building cannot loom directly over a lower-density neighbor's lot line. The Roseville Mixed-Use (RMU) district carries no citywide numeric cap in this table; Note (7) instead sends height control to whatever development standard overlay or special area overlay applies to that specific site, meaning RMU height is set project-by-project rather than by a single citywide number.

Subsection C, Exceptions to Height Limits, then carves out a narrow allowance on top of all of the above: architectural features, mechanical equipment, chimneys, vents, and other architectural or mechanical appurtenances on buildings may rise a maximum of 15 percent higher than the height limit of the applicable zone, so a roof-mounted vent stack on a 35-foot R1 house can legally reach about 40 feet without triggering a variance. These are baseline zoning limits, not building-code stories caps, and they sit inside the same section that also governs setbacks and lot coverage for each district, so a height question on a specific parcel should be cross-checked against the same table's setback and lot-coverage rows for that zone.