Building Setbacks & Zoning in South Carolina (2026)

Aiken County's zoning ordinance sets minimum yard setbacks by district and street type in Table 2 under Section…

Anderson County Code § 24-117 sets minimum yard setbacks for every building and structure in the unincorporated area…

Beaufort County sets yard setbacks zone by zone under its form-based Community Development Code rather than one…

In Berkeley County's R1 single-family district, front, side and rear setbacks scale with lot size, from 35 feet up…

Charleston sets front, side and rear yard setbacks by zoning district in Table 3.1 of the zoning ordinance…

Setbacks depend on the zoning district. In the common R-4 Single Family Residential district the minimums are 25 feet…

Dorchester County's zoning ordinance sets minimum front, side and rear yards for every unincorporated district…

Unincorporated Florence County sets minimum front, side and rear yard setbacks by zoning district in Table III. Sec…

In single-family districts (e.g. R-6), Greenville County requires front setbacks of 20 ft on residential streets, 30 ft…

Horry County's Zoning Ordinance sets minimum front, side, rear and corner-side setbacks by district. In the common SF6…

Lexington County's zoning ordinance measures setbacks as linear distances inward from property lines or road…

Single-family homes in North Charleston's R-1 district need a 20-foot front setback, a 5-foot side setback (10 feet on…

Pageland's Table 2 sets front setbacks from zero feet downtown to 50 feet in the general commercial and industrial…

In Richland County's single-family districts, principal homes must sit 25 feet from the front, 20 feet from the rear…

Rock Hill's Zoning Ordinance fixes every yard setback from a line drawn parallel to the property line at the required…

Setbacks vary by zoning district. In the R-E Estate district, single-family homes require a 20-foot front, 8-foot side…

In unincorporated Spartanburg County, a single-family home on a minor street must sit at least 20 feet from the front…

York County zones its unincorporated areas. Under Zoning Code Section 155.058, single-family RSF-40 and RSF-30 lots…

Aiken County caps residential building height at 35 feet in most zoning districts under Table 2 of the zoning…

Anderson County doesn't cap building height at a flat number of feet. Instead, § 24-118 requires any building or…

Beaufort County caps building height by transect zone rather than with one countywide number. The T2 Rural Neighborhood…

Berkeley County limits buildings in its R1 single-family district to "less than 40 feet to the highest part of the…

Charleston caps residential structure height by zoning district under Table 3.1: 35 feet (2.5 stories) in SR-1, SR-2…

In most residential districts, including R-4 Single Family Residential and rural AGR, the maximum building height is 35…

Dorchester County caps residential structures at two stories under Section 7.3.6 of the Zoning and Land Development…

Unincorporated Florence County caps building height at 38 feet in its standard single-family districts, R-1 through…

Table 7.3 of the Greenville County Zoning Ordinance sets a 45-foot maximum height in residential districts. Buildings…

The Horry County Zoning Ordinance caps principal building height at 35 feet across the single-family residential…

Building height in unincorporated Lexington County is capped by a height control slope rather than a flat number of…

Pageland caps building height at 35 feet in its lowest-density residential and commercial districts and 60 feet in GR…

In Richland County's single-family residential districts (RS-LD, RS-MD, RS-HD) and the rural district, the maximum…

Rock Hill caps single-family detached homes in the SF-3 district at 35 feet, measured from established grade to the…

Most residential districts cap building height at 35 feet, while the R-Hi High Density district allows up to 40 feet…

York County's height limits trace to S.C. Code § 6-29-720(A), the state statute letting county government regulate…

Aiken County caps how much of a lot can be covered by buildings and pavement through the impervious surface ratio in…

Anderson County caps how much of a lot can be covered by buildings, pavement, and other impervious surfaces: 55 percent…

Beaufort County caps how much of a lot buildings can cover, zone by zone. The T2 Rural Neighborhood zone limits Maximum…

Berkeley County caps impervious surface in its R1 single-family district at 50 percent of the lot. That single-line…

Charleston caps the share of a lot that buildings can cover under Table 3.1 of the zoning ordinance. Coverage tops out…

In both the R-4 Single Family Residential and rural AGR districts, maximum building coverage is 30% of the lot…

Columbia's Unified Development Ordinance sets maximum lot coverage as a percentage of site area separately for each…

Dorchester County's Suburban Residential (SR) district caps single-family lots at 50% impervious surface coverage and…

Unincorporated Florence County caps how much of a lot may be covered by buildings and pavement through Table III's…

Greenville County's residential Table 7.3 controls development through lot width, setbacks, and height rather than a…

Unincorporated Horry County limits how much of a residential lot a house and its accessory structures can cover under…

Homes built in a Lexington County Residential Detached (Limited) development can cover no more than 50 percent of their…

Richland County's single-family districts control building bulk mainly through setbacks and the 45-foot height cap…

Rock Hill defines lot coverage as the share of a lot covered by the house, accessory structures, and all impervious…

The Zoning Ordinance defines lot coverage as the portion of a lot covered by any structure or constructed element that…

York County limits impervious surface, roofs, driveways, parking and other hard cover, by land use under Zoning Code §…