Building Setbacks & Zoning in Georgia (2026)

Acworth sets minimum yard setbacks by zoning district in Table 73-3.5 of the Zoning Ordinance, requiring 20 to 50 feet…

Alpharetta's R-10 single-family district requires a 30-foot front setback from a local street (65 feet from any other…

Atlanta sets a separate front, side, and rear yard depth for every residential zoning district, 60/25/35 feet in R-1…

Augusta-Richmond County's R-1 zoning sets minimum yard setbacks: 30 feet in front on local streets (40 feet on major…

In unincorporated Barrow County, every principal building must sit back from its street, side and rear lot lines by the…

Bartow County's Zoning Ordinance sets a different front, side and rear setback for every zoning district in Article…

Table 2-3 of Brookhaven Code § 27-67 sets minimum principal building setbacks for detached houses in the RS districts…

Section 606 of Bulloch County's Zoning Ordinance sets front, side and rear yard setback minimums for each residential…

Unincorporated Carroll County, Georgia's zoning ordinance bars any building from occupying a required yard under County…

Table 2-4 of the Catoosa County Unified Development Code sets the minimum front, side and rear yard setbacks for every…

Chatham County Sec. 4-6.1 requires that no structure sit closer than 20 feet from any design right-of-way line, nor…

Yard setbacks in unincorporated Cherokee County vary by zoning district under Table 7.1A of the Zoning Ordinance…

Clayton County requires front, side and rear yard setbacks for every structure, set individually for each zoning…

Unincorporated Cobb County fixes minimum yard setbacks by zoning district in the Chapter 134 bulk-regulations table…

Front, side and rear yard setbacks in Columbia County's residential districts are set by the § 90-53 lot and structure…

Columbus, Georgia's UDO sets minimum front, side, corner-side, and rear yard setbacks by residential zoning district…

Coweta County's zoning ordinance sets minimum front, side and rear yard setbacks for every zoning district in Article…

In the City of Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia, the Unified Development Ordinance's R-60 Single-Family Residential…

In unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, residential building setbacks come from Table 2.2 in Section 2.2.1 of Chapter…

Dunwoody sets minimum building setbacks by zoning district in City Code § 27-58(b). Street-facing setbacks range from…

In Effingham County's R-1-A single-family district, an alternative to the standard R-1 zone, principal buildings need a…

In the R-85 Single-Family Residential District, unincorporated Fayette County's Section 110-128 sets a 100-foot front…

In unincorporated Floyd County, how far a house can sit from the street and side lines depends on zoning district. The…

Front, side and rear setbacks in unincorporated Forsyth County are fixed district-by-district in Table 11.2(a) of the…

In unincorporated Fulton County's R-1 Single Family Dwelling District, new houses must sit at least 60 feet back from…

In Glynn County's R-6, R-9, M-6, M-9, Mh-6 and Mh-9 one-family residential districts, homes must sit back at least 20…

In unincorporated Gordon County, Georgia, Table 4.01.02(E) sets minimum setbacks by district: 40 feet from the…

UDO § 210-120 sets minimum front, side and rear yard setbacks for every base residential district in unincorporated…

Hall County's Unified Development Code sets minimum yard setbacks by zoning district in Article 3 and Article 4…

Houston County's Section 82 setback table requires a 50-foot front yard from arterial and collector streets in every…

Unincorporated Jackson County sets minimum front, side, and rear building setbacks by zoning district under UDC Sec…

In Johns Creek's R-1 Single-Family District, homes must sit back at least 60 feet from the front line, 25 feet from…

Macon-Bibb County's yard setback table in Section 9.06 sets a 40-foot front, side, and rear setback from arterial and…

Marietta's R-1 Single-Family Residential/Agriculture district sets front setbacks that scale with the street: 50 feet…

Paulding County's R-2 Suburban Residential District, the county's standard suburban zoning, sets a 35-foot minimum…

Rockdale County's dimensional standards table sets minimum yard setbacks by zoning district: 40 feet front, 10 or 30…

Roswell's UDC sets minimum primary-street, side-street, side-interior and rear setbacks for each building type and…

South Fulton sets minimum yard setbacks by zoning district in Table 4-1 under Zoning Ordinance Section 403.03(a). The…

In the R-1 district in unincorporated Spalding County, the minimum front yard setback is 100 feet, reduced to 70 feet…

Building setbacks for Stonecrest's single-family districts are fixed in Zoning Ordinance Table 2.2 under § 2.2.1. Front…

The Space Dimensions Table in unincorporated Troup County's Unified Development Ordinance sets AG district setbacks far…

Walker County's Table of Development Standards fixes a uniform 15-foot side and rear setback across every zoning…

The A1 Rural Estate District, the county's main large-lot residential zone, requires a 50-foot front setback, 15-foot…

Warner Robins sets minimum front, rear, and side yard setbacks by zoning district under Section 82 of the zoning…

In the R-4 Zero Lot Line Residential district in unincorporated Whitfield County, homes need a 20-foot front setback…

Acworth caps building height by zoning district in Table 73-3.5 of the Zoning Ordinance: 35 feet in the R-1 through R-5…

Alpharetta caps residential building height at 35 feet in the R-10 district and every other standard single-family…

Atlanta limits buildings in R-4 single-family districts, the city's standard medium-density residential zone, to 35…

Augusta-Richmond County caps R-1 single-family homes at two and one-half stories or 45 feet under Section 8-6 of the…

Unincorporated Barrow County caps building and structure heights by zoning district under Table 4.1, but section 89-405…

In unincorporated Bartow County, the Zoning Ordinance caps single-family homes in the R-1 residential district at 50…

Table 2-3 of Brookhaven Code § 27-67 caps a principal detached house at 40 feet in every RS district of the City of…

Bulloch County caps habitable building height at 35 feet across all its residential districts (R-80 through R-3) under…

Unincorporated Carroll County, Georgia's zoning ordinance caps buildings at 35 feet in the Office and Institutional…

Single-family homes in Catoosa County's R-1 Residential District, the county's baseline 22,000-square-foot-lot zone…

Unincorporated Chatham County's residential and nonresidential R-district schedules cap maximum building height at 36…

Clayton County sets structure height by zoning district, and no structure can be built or altered above the limit for…

In unincorporated Cobb County, principal residential structures are capped at 35 feet under the zoning code's…

Every one of Columbia County's ten residential zoning districts, from the rural R-A district to the densest A-R10…

Columbus, Georgia caps residential building height at 35 feet in most zoning districts (40 feet in HIST), with narrow…

Coweta County's zoning ordinance caps residential structures at three stories and 35 feet in the RD Two-Family and R-2…

In the City of Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia, the Unified Development Ordinance caps residential height by district…

Single-family homes in unincorporated DeKalb County are capped at 35 feet, dropping to 28 feet in Residential Infill…

Dunwoody caps residential building height at 35 feet for the principal house and 20 feet for accessory structures…

Effingham County's R-1-A single-family district caps principal-building height at 35 feet, five feet taller than the…

Unincorporated Fayette County caps residential structures at 35 feet in the R-85 Single-Family Residential District…

Unincorporated Floyd County caps building height by zoning district under the Unified Land Development Code's Table…

In unincorporated Fulton County, the AG-1 and R-1 zoning districts cap residential buildings at 40 feet, measured from…

Homes and other buildings in unincorporated Glynn County's standard one-family residential districts top out at 35 feet…

In unincorporated Gordon County, Georgia, Table 4.01.02(E) caps building height in stories: 2.5 stories in the rural…

UDO § 210-120 caps building height at 35 feet across Gwinnett County's six single-family districts, RA-200 through…

Hall County caps building height by zoning district under UDC § 2.1.6, measuring from mean finished grade to the…

In unincorporated Jackson County's R-1, R-2, and R-3 residential districts, UDC Sec. 123 and Table 2-2 cap buildings…

In Johns Creek's R-1 Single-Family Dwelling District, no building may exceed 40 feet in height under the city's Zoning…

Macon-Bibb County caps buildings and structures in the R-1, R-1A, and R-1AA single-family districts at 35 feet under…

Marietta caps building height at 40 feet for a principal structure in the R-1 Single-Family Residential/Agriculture…

Homes and other structures in Paulding County's R-2 Suburban Residential District top out at 45 feet under UDO Section…

Rockdale County caps building height at 35 feet in the W-P watershed protection and RM multi-family districts, but…

Roswell caps most detached houses at 35 feet or 2½ stories and accessory structures at 24 feet, measured from average…

In the City of Smyrna, Georgia, the Appendix A § 801 table caps the height of structures at 35 feet in the R-30, R-20…

South Fulton caps residential building height at 35 feet across every R-1 through R-6 single-family zoning district…

In the R-1 district in unincorporated Spalding County, buildings are capped at 35 feet under Zoning Ordinance Section…

Stonecrest Zoning Ordinance Table 2.2 caps main residential buildings at 35 feet across every single-family district…

Structures in unincorporated Troup County's AG, AG-R, SU-R, LR, LC, LI, and HI districts are capped at 40 feet under…

Walker County's Table of Development Standards in section 22-181 caps building height at 50 feet in every district the…

Homes in Walton County's A1 Rural Estate District are capped at thirty-five feet under Section 4-1-120(E)(5) of the…

Warner Robins caps residential structures at 35 feet and three stories in every standard single-family and multi-family…

Chart 3-7 of Whitfield County's Unified Zoning Ordinance caps building height at 35 feet across every agricultural and…

Acworth's Zoning Ordinance limits how much of a lot can be covered by buildings, pavement and other impervious surface…

Alpharetta's R-10 single-family zoning district, one of the city's seven standard detached-home districts, caps…

Atlanta caps building footprint at 50 percent of total lot area for the R-4 Single-Family Residential District, the…

Augusta-Richmond County's R-1 (One-Family Residential) Zone caps building coverage at 30 percent of a lot's area…

Unincorporated Barrow County caps impervious surface at 25 percent inside its small water supply watersheds: Cedar…

Non-residential and multi-family development in unincorporated Bartow County cannot cover more than 75 percent of a lot…

In the City of Brookhaven, Georgia, Table 2-3 of Brookhaven Code § 27-67 caps maximum impervious coverage at 35 percent…

Bulloch County's zoning development standards cap maximum lot coverage at 80 percent in the Highway Commercial…

In unincorporated Carroll County, Georgia's Office and Institutional (OI) zoning district, County Code §…

For uses in Chatham County's R-districts, Sec. 4-6.2 caps building coverage at 40 percent of the lot. Single-family…

Cherokee County caps how much of a lot can be covered by buildings, from 20 percent in the rural AG district up to 60…

Clayton County caps the maximum lot coverage for every zoning district, but the percentage is set individually for each…

Columbia County caps how much of a residential lot can be covered by the house and accessory structures under Code of…

Columbus, Georgia's Unified Development Ordinance caps maximum lot coverage per zoning district, from 10 percent in the…

Inside Coweta County's Village Center district, single-family detached lots face a tiered impervious surface cap: 35…

Decatur, Georgia's Unified Development Ordinance limits how much of a lot a house can cover. For a legacy lot of record…

In unincorporated DeKalb County, no lot can exceed the maximum lot coverage set for its zoning district, as low as 25…

Dunwoody limits how much of a residential lot can be covered by buildings, driveways, patios, pools, and other…

Effingham County caps building and lot coverage at 30 percent of the parcel in its R-1-A single-family district, one of…

In unincorporated Fayette County, the county code caps impervious lot coverage by zoning district rather than…

In the TR Townhouse Residential district of unincorporated Fulton County, the combined footprint of all buildings and…

Glynn County caps site coverage, the share of a lot covered by buildings, parking, driveways, pools, and similar…

In unincorporated Gordon County, Georgia, each zoning district carries a maximum impervious surface ratio, from 15…

Unincorporated Gwinnett County caps building footprint under UDO § 210-120: 25% of lot area in the RA-200 and R-LL…

In Hall County's AG-1 Agricultural district, Table 3.1.1 caps site coverage at 35 percent of the lot, alongside a…

Houston County caps building lot coverage at 25 percent for lots on private wells regardless of zoning district, and…

Unincorporated Jackson County caps how much of a lot can be covered by buildings under UDC Sec. 120 and Table 2-2. The…

Macon-Bibb County caps building footprint in its core single-family zones at 25 to 35 percent of lot area. Section 9.04…

Marietta caps lot coverage at 35 percent for a home built in the R-1 Single-Family Residential/Agriculture district…

Rockdale County's dimensional standards table caps impervious surface at 20 percent of a lot in the R-1 single-family…

Roswell's Unified Development Code caps building coverage, the ground-floor footprint of every principal and roofed…

In the City of Smyrna, Georgia, Appendix A Sec. 801 caps lot coverage by buildings and other structures including…

South Fulton's Zoning Ordinance does not set one flat coverage percentage citywide; it assigns a lot-coverage maximum…

Spalding County's R-6 zoning district development standards cap impervious surface, buildings, driveways and parking…

In the City of Stonecrest, no lot may be built out beyond the maximum impervious coverage set for its zoning district…

In Walton County's A1 Rural Estate District, the most common large-lot residential zoning in the unincorporated county…

Warner Robins limits how much of a lot a building can cover under Section 81 of the zoning ordinance. Lots without…

Catoosa County's Unified Development Code Table 2-4 only sets a maximum lot coverage figure for the…

Most of Forsyth County's residential zoning districts have no maximum lot coverage percentage at all. Table 11.2(a) of…

Unincorporated Troup County's Space Dimensions Table sets no numeric cap on building coverage or impervious surface for…