Building Setbacks & Zoning in Tennessee (2026)

In Chattanooga's RN-1-7.5 Residential Neighborhood Zone, Table 38-16.5 sets a 25-foot front and rear setback, a 25-foot…

Every single-family district in Table 4.2 requires a 30-foot front yard. Side and rear yards tighten as lots shrink…

Franklin's R1--Residential 1 District requires a 60-foot front, 25-foot side, and 50-foot rear setback for principal…

Hamilton County's R-1 Single-Family Residential District requires a 25-foot front yard, 10-foot side yards and a…

Hendersonville's residential yard setbacks scale with district -- from 50 feet front and 40 feet rear in the…

In the RA Low Density Residential Zone, Knox County requires a 35-foot front yard, side yards of 8 feet for…

Front setbacks in Knoxville's residential zoning districts range from a 40-foot minimum in EN down to 10 feet in RN-3…

The joint Memphis and Shelby County Unified Development Code sets a separate minimum yard setback table for every…

Murfreesboro's Chart 2 sets minimum front, side, and rear yard setbacks by residential district: 40 feet front in…

Rear and side yard setbacks for single- and two-family homes in Metro Nashville run from 20 feet in the largest AG and…

Unincorporated Rutherford County's Table 1 sets residential setbacks by district: AR requires a 50-foot front, 20-foot…

The Memphis and Shelby County Unified Development Code sets minimum front, side, and rear setbacks by zoning district…

Sullivan County sets a 30-foot front setback in nearly every agricultural and residential district under Table 3-103B…

Sumner County's Zoning Resolution sets minimum front, side and rear yard setbacks by residential district in Table 1…

Williamson County's zoning ordinance sets minimum front, side, and rear yard setbacks that vary by zoning district and…

Chattanooga's Table 38-16.3 caps residential building height at 35 feet across its RN-1 through RN-3 zones, with a…

Tables 4.2 and 4.3 cap all uses at 35 feet in E-1 through R-3. R-6 allows 45 feet. Detached accessory buildings may…

In Franklin's R1 (Residential 1) zoning district, a principal house is capped at 2 1/2 stories under the 2026 Franklin…

In Hamilton County's unincorporated R-1 Single-Family Residential District, Zoning Regulations § 204 caps buildings at…

Hendersonville's Zoning Ordinance caps residential building height at 35 feet in the Rural Residential, Estate…

In the RA Low Density Residential Zone, no main building may exceed 3 stories or 35 feet, and accessory buildings are…

Knoxville caps residential structures at 35 feet in the EN, RN-1, RN-2, RN-3, and RN-4 single-family zoning districts…

The joint Memphis and Shelby County Unified Development Code caps residential building height at 40 feet in the R-15…

Murfreesboro caps residential building height at 35 feet across every single-family zoning district, rising to 45 feet…

Metro Nashville caps most single-family and two-family homes at 24 feet to the eave and 35 feet to the roof ridge, with…

In unincorporated Rutherford County, the maximum building height is 35 feet in the AR, RL, and RM residential districts…

The Unified Development Code caps single-family building height at 40 feet in most residential districts of…

Sullivan County caps residential buildings at 3 stories or 50 feet across every agricultural and residential district…

Table 1 of Sumner County's Zoning Resolution caps building height at 35 feet in the county's four standard residential…

Most residential zoning districts in unincorporated Williamson County cap building height at 3.0 stories. Table 10.02-4…

Chattanooga's Table 38-16.1 dimensional standards cap how much of a residential lot a building can cover: 60 percent…

Clarksville caps lot coverage in all residential districts, loosening as density rises: 25 percent in E-1, 30 percent…

In Franklin's Downtown District (DD), buildings can cover up to 85 percent of a lot: the Zoning Ordinance's dimensional…

In Hamilton County's unincorporated R-1 Single-Family Residential District, no dwelling may cover more than 35% of its…

Hendersonville caps maximum lot coverage by zoning district under the 2025 Zoning Ordinance: 15% in Rural Residential…

Knox County's RA Low Density Residential Zone caps lot coverage at 30 percent: main and accessory buildings combined…

Knoxville's Recode Knoxville zoning code caps impervious surface, the paved and structural coverage that blocks water…

Murfreesboro's Chart 2 limits how much of a residential lot buildings can cover: 35% in the largest-lot single-family…

Metro Nashville caps how much of a single-family or two-family lot a house can cover, from 20% in the largest-lot AG…

Unincorporated Rutherford County caps how much of a lot a building can cover by district: 20% for residential uses in…

In unincorporated Shelby County the Unified Development Code caps cumulative accessory-structure footprint at 75…

Sullivan County dropped its lot-coverage cap on houses in 2005, but accessory structures still face two limits: Table…

Sumner County's residential zoning districts cap lot coverage at 20 to 25 percent for houses and accessory structures…