Building Setbacks & Zoning in Pennsylvania (2026)

Allentown's standard detached house type, House A, must sit back 30 feet from the front lot line in the GX-C zone and…

Berks County does not set building setbacks. Front, side, and rear yard minimums are fixed by your municipality's…

Chester County PA does not set building setbacks. Under the PA Municipalities Planning Code, your borough or township…

Delaware County, PA sets no building setbacks. Under the PA Municipalities Planning Code, each of the county's 49…

Erie's Section 205 table fixes the minimum front, side, and rear yard depths for every zoning district. An R-1 house…

Franklin Township's Agricultural-Residential District table at § 27-404 sets front yards of 50 to 75 feet, side yards…

Lancaster County sets no building setbacks. Each municipality does, under MPC §603(b), which authorizes zoning of the…

Montgomery County establishes no setback rules. Minimum front, side, and rear yard distances are set by each of the…

In Penn Hills' I-1 Industrial District, buildings need a 35-foot front yard, a 25-foot side yard, and a 25-foot rear…

Minimum front, side, and rear yard depths are fixed per zoning district in the Zoning Code's dimensional tables, from…

Pittsburgh's zoning code sets minimum yard setbacks by density subdistrict, not one citywide number, with front, rear…

Inside Pottstown's Conservation District, new buildings must match their block's existing setback pattern under Chapter…

Scranton's zoning code sets minimum front, side and rear yard setbacks separately for each zoning district under §…

Upper Darby's R-1 zoning district requires a 25-foot minimum front yard, a 10-foot minimum side yard (25 feet…

Building setbacks are set by your borough or township zoning ordinance under the PA Municipalities Planning Code, not…

Allentown limits the City's standard detached house type, House A, to 2.5 stories (three with a visible basement and a…

Berks County sets no building-height limit. Maximum structure height is fixed by your municipality's zoning ordinance…

Chester County PA sets no building height limit. Your borough or township caps building height by zoning district under…

Delaware County, PA sets no building-height limit. Under the PA Municipalities Planning Code, each borough or township…

Erie's Section 205 table caps building height at 35 feet in the R-1 and R-1A Districts, 45 feet in R-2, 100 feet in…

Franklin Township caps buildings and structures at 35 feet in its rural Agricultural-Residential District under §…

Lancaster County sets no building-height limit. Municipalities do, under MPC §603(b), which authorizes zoning of the…

Montgomery County sets no building-height limit. Maximum heights for houses and accessory structures are set by each…

Most Philadelphia rowhouse and detached-house zones cap building height at 38 feet, with lower limits in RSA-6 and…

Single- and two-unit homes in Pittsburgh's R1D, R1A, R2 and R3 residential subdistricts are capped at 40 feet and 3…

New buildings in Pottstown's Conservation District must stay within 15 percent of neighboring buildings' perceived…

Scranton's zoning dimensional tables cap building height by district rather than city-wide. In the Suburban…

Upper Darby caps single-family detached homes at 35 feet in every base residential district: R-C, R-C-1, R-1 and R-2…

Maximum building height is set by your borough or township zoning ordinance, not York County. In York Township…

Allentown's zoning code caps building coverage for the City's standard detached house type at 50% in the N3 and N4…

Berks County sets no lot-coverage limit. Maximum building and impervious coverage is set by your municipality's zoning…

Chester County PA does not set lot-coverage limits. Your borough or township caps building and impervious coverage by…

Delaware County, PA sets no lot-coverage limit. Under the PA Municipalities Planning Code, each borough or township…

Erie caps how much of a lot a building can occupy: 35 percent in the R-1 District and 50 percent in R-1A, R-2, R-3, and…

Franklin Township limits building coverage to 8-20% and total lot coverage to 15-35% in the Agricultural-Residential…

Lancaster County sets no lot-coverage limit. Municipalities do, under MPC §603(b), which authorizes zoning of the…

Montgomery County sets no lot-coverage limit. Maximum building and impervious-surface coverage are set by each borough…

Philadelphia's Zoning Code limits how much of a lot a building can occupy through the "Max. Occupied Area" standard in…

Reading's zoning code caps how much of a lot can be covered by buildings and by impervious surfaces, with the exact…

Upper Darby's single-family bulk table caps building coverage at 25% for 15,000-square-foot R-C lots (20% for…

Maximum lot coverage is set by your borough or township, not York County. In York Township, coverage caps range from…

Pittsburgh sets no maximum lot coverage percentage for its residential zoning districts, R1D, R1A, R2, R3, and RM…