Stonecrest, GA Building Setbacks & Zoning: Structure Height Limits (2026)

Zoning Ordinance Sec. 2.2.1, Table 2.2 ("Residential Zoning Districts Dimensional Requirements") sets the maximum height for a main building at 35 feet uniformly across the RE, RLG, R-100, R-85, R-75, R-60 and MHP single-family districts, with a footnote reducing the limit to 28 feet inside the residential infill overlay; accessory buildings are capped at 24 feet in every district except MHP, where the accessory limit is not applicable. Sec. 5.2.5 fixes how height is measured: for single-family detached dwellings, from the front-door threshold to the highest point of the roof, and for all other structures, from average finished grade to the roof beams, deck level or eave-to-ridge average depending on roof type.

The same section carves out several structures from the height cap entirely, including barns and silos on farms, belfries, steeples, cupolas, domes, chimneys, flagpoles, bulkheads, elevator penthouses, rooftop mechanical equipment and water tanks (capped at 25 percent of roof area), permitted telecommunications towers, and rooftop equipment under six feet. A single-family home damaged by fire or another act of nature may be rebuilt to its original height even if that exceeds the district limit, and an infill lot within a subdivision where 60 percent of homes already exceed the height limit may be built to the block's average existing height.

A separate Sec. 5.2.4 transitional height plane restricts commercial and multifamily buildings near single-family districts, requiring the building to step back at a 45-degree angle above 35 feet measured from the applicable setback or buffer line.