Lee County, AL Ordinances (2026)

Lee County's Zoning Regulations don't cap lot coverage or impervious surface at all: Section 4.2 sets only a 15,000-square-foot minimum lot area, a cross-reference to the Subdivision…

Lee County's Zoning Regulations cap residential buildings at 45 feet and nonresidential buildings at 60 feet countywide, under Section 4.2(3), the only dimensional standard the code…

Most of unincorporated Lee County is unzoned. The county's zoning regulations apply only in election beats that voted them in, so far just Beat 13. There the code defers yard setbacks…

In beats that have adopted zoning, Lee County's RP Rural Preserve District is built around farmland: it covers outlying areas beyond the cities and keeps commercial farms, hobby farms…

In unincorporated Lee County's mapped Special Flood Hazard Areas, new construction and substantially improved structures must have the lowest floor elevated at least one foot above the…

Any new subdivision in unincorporated Lee County must include an engineer-designed Storm Drainage Plan before the County Engineer will approve Construction Plans. The plan has to map…

Every road built in a Lee County subdivision must use Best Management Practices for erosion control throughout construction. The developer, not the county, is responsible for meeting…

Building or filling in a Lee County flood hazard area requires a Floodplain Development Permit before work starts. New and substantially improved structures in mapped Special Flood…

Lee County levies a 2 percent privilege tax on every room, lodging, or accommodation rented to a transient at a hotel, motel, inn, tourist court, or any other place regularly renting…

Lee County bans panhandling and charity solicitation along the right-of-way or at any four-way stop on a public road in the unincorporated county, backing the ban with a civil fine of…

Anyone running a junkyard or similar salvage business within 1,000 feet of a public road in unincorporated Lee County must first get a county license from the Lee County Commission…

In unincorporated Lee County outside Auburn, a property owner or lessee may tow or wheel-lock any vehicle parked without permission under Ala. Code § 45-41-210, but only if the lot…

Lee County's Zoning Regulations classify vehicle repair as a commercial use, not a home occupation. Section 8.4 limits home-based businesses to incidental office work or licensed…

Storing more than two inoperable, unregistered motor vehicles on any lot in unincorporated Lee County is a public nuisance under Ala. Code § 45-41-170.02. Each day the vehicles sit…

Lee County's Public Nuisance - Premises law makes it unlawful for any property owner in the unincorporated county to let junk, litter, standing water or rotting debris pile up on a…

A Legislature-enacted nuisance law declares the accumulation and storage of junk, litter and discarded tires in unincorporated Lee County a public nuisance, and separately bans storing…

Unincorporated Lee County runs a mandatory solid waste collection program funded through fees the Lee County Board of Health sets annually and the county commission approves, with an…

Anyone connecting a driveway, road or other access point to a Lee County-maintained road must first obtain a written access permit from the County Engineer. The Highway Department…

Lee County's Zoning Regulations don't set a size, setback, or permit rule for sheds anywhere in the county (Sec. 3.8 is reserved). But inside a FEMA-mapped Special Flood Hazard Area…

Lee County's Zoning Regulations list an "Accessory dwelling unit," attached or detached from the primary house on the same lot, as its own Rural Residential use under Section 8.4(2)…

Lee County's Zoning Regulations classify backyard chickens, poultry and livestock keeping as a "Hobby or recreational farm" or "Commercial farm" land use under Article III. Both are…

Lee County's Zoning Regulations do not treat beekeeping as its own use category; apiaries fall under "Commercial farm," which Section 8.4(1) expressly lists as including "bees and…

Lee County classifies an in-home daycare as a "Day care home" under Section 8.4(2): a licensed service operated from a dwelling by the resident serving a limited number of children…

Lee County's "Home occupation" definition draws a hard line on customer traffic: Section 8.4(2) permits an incidental home business like a home office but expressly excludes retail…

Unincorporated Lee County zoning (in beats that have adopted it) allows two kinds of home-based work by right: a 'home occupation' like a home office that cannot take retail sales or…