R-E — Residential Estate
Maximum two stories or 35 feet (residential); 60 feet for non-residential uses in the district.
Building height in Pembroke Pines, FL
What the Pembroke Pines zoning ordinance says about building height, district by district. Section numbers link to the official ordinance.
R-1A — Residential Single-Family
Maximum two stories or 35 feet.
R-1B — Residential Single-Family
Maximum two stories or 35 feet.
R-1C — Residential Single-Family
Maximum two stories or 35 feet.
R-1Z — Residential Single-Family Zero Lot Line
Maximum two stories or 35 feet.
R-MH — Residential Mobile Home
Maximum 15 feet.
R-2 — Residential Two-Family
Maximum two stories or 30 feet.
R-TH — Residential Townhouse
Maximum 35 feet.
R-MF — Residential Multi-Family
Maximum 8 stories or 100 feet, whichever is less.
B-1 — Neighborhood Business
Maximum two stories or 30 feet.
B-2 — Community Business
Maximum 100 feet (no building within 100 feet of a single-family dwelling may exceed two stories or 35 feet).
B-3 — General Business
Maximum 100 feet (no building within 100 feet of a single-family dwelling may exceed two stories or 35 feet).
C-1 — Commercial
Maximum 100 feet.
PO — Professional Office
Maximum 50 feet (all setbacks increase two feet for every one foot of building height beyond 25 feet, per LDC 155.434 note 1).
I-L — Industrial-Light
Maximum 100 feet.
I-M — Industrial-Medium
Maximum 150 feet.
I-H — Industrial-Heavy
Maximum 200 feet, both for the base use in Table 155.442.1 and for the special exception use in Table 155.442.2.
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