Taylor, MI Building Setbacks & Zoning: Structure Height Limits (2026)

Table 3.03's height columns set a uniform story limit, 2.5 stories, across all three single-family residential districts, but the feet limit varies: 30 feet in R-1A, the city's largest-lot district, and 25 feet in both R-1B and R-1C. A footnote to the table, subsection (c), Building height, states plainly that exceptions to building height are allowed as provided for in section 14.08, height limit, which is the ordinance's general height-exception provision for every district in the city, not just single-family zones. Under that separate section, features like roof-mounted mechanical equipment, elevator penthouses, chimneys, flagpoles and residential antennas may project above the district height limit, but the ordinance still bounds how far those projections can go, and taller wind energy systems and wireless communication towers are separately capped under their own use-specific sections rather than the base height table.

For an ordinary single-family remodel or new build, the practical rule from table 3.03 is the one that controls day to day: a two-and-a-half-story house cannot exceed 30 feet in R-1A or 25 feet in R-1B and R-1C before Building and Safety will sign off on framing.