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Setbacks in Pembroke Pines, FL

What the Pembroke Pines zoning ordinance says about setbacks, district by district. Section numbers link to the official ordinance.

R-E — Residential Estate

Front: 50 feet. Side: 25 feet (increases one foot for each foot of building or structure height over 40 feet). Rear: 25 feet. Street side: 25 feet. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.

R-1A — Residential Single-Family

Front: 25 feet (30 feet non-residential). Side: 10 feet, or 5 feet on an existing legal lot 60 feet wide or less (20 feet non-residential, increasing one foot for every two feet of height over 20 feet). Rear: 15 feet (25 feet non-residential). Street side: key lots 25 feet, corner lots 15 feet.

R-1B — Residential Single-Family

Front: 25 feet (30 feet non-residential). Side: 7.5 feet, or 5 feet on an existing legal lot 60 feet wide or less (20 feet non-residential, increasing one foot for every two feet of height over 20 feet). Rear: 15 feet (25 feet non-residential). Street side: key lots 25 feet, corner lots 15 feet.

R-1C — Residential Single-Family

Front: 25 feet (30 feet non-residential). Side: 7.5 feet, or 5 feet on an existing legal lot 60 feet wide or less (20 feet non-residential, increasing one foot for every two feet of height over 20 feet). Rear: 15 feet (25 feet non-residential). Street side: key lots 25 feet, corner lots 15 feet.

R-1Z — Residential Single-Family Zero Lot Line

Front: 20 feet. Side: 0 feet on the side the home is placed against the lot line, 15 feet on the nonzero side. Rear: 15 feet. Street side: 15 feet. See LDC 155.652 for additional zero lot line development criteria.

R-MH — Residential Mobile Home

Front: 6 feet. Side: 4 feet (open carports, driveways, and stoops may be 2 feet from the interior lot line). Rear: 8 feet. Street side: 4 feet.

R-2 — Residential Two-Family

Front: 25 feet (30 feet non-residential). Side: 7.5 feet, no setback needed along a common wall and lot line if built on two platted lots (20 feet non-residential, increasing one foot for every two feet of height over 20 feet). Rear: 15 feet (25 feet non-residential). Street side: 15 feet.

R-TH — Residential Townhouse

Front: 15 feet. Side: 25 feet. Rear: 20 feet. Minimum separation between townhouse buildings runs from 20 to 50 feet depending on the front/rear/side grouping orientation, per LDC 155.425 Table.

R-MF — Residential Multi-Family

Front: 60 feet (30 feet non-residential). Side: 20 feet, increasing one foot for every two feet of height over 20 feet (25 feet non-residential). Rear: not specified for residential in the table; 20 feet non-residential, increasing two feet for every ten feet of height over 44 feet. Minimum unit size 550 square feet.

B-1 — Neighborhood Business

Front: 25 feet. Side: 10 feet. Rear: 15 feet. The first 10 feet of each setback must be fully sodded and landscaped.

B-2 — Community Business

Front or street side: 30 feet (increases one foot for every two feet of height over 35 feet; first 15 feet must be fully landscaped, remainder may be used for parking). Side: 10 feet, fully landscaped (increases one foot for every five feet of height over 35 feet). Rear: 15 feet (first 10 feet fully sodded and landscaped). Lots abutting a residential district or use follow the bufferyard standards at LDC 155.630-155.633. No building within 100 feet of a single-family dwelling may exceed two stories or 35 feet.

B-3 — General Business

Front or street side: 30 feet (increases one foot for every two feet of height over 35 feet; first 15 feet must be fully landscaped, remainder may be used for parking). Side: 10 feet, fully landscaped (increases one foot for every five feet of height over 35 feet). Rear: 15 feet (first 10 feet fully sodded and landscaped). Lots abutting a residential district or use follow the bufferyard standards at LDC 155.630-155.633.

C-1 — Commercial

Front or street side: 30 feet (first 15 feet fully landscaped, remainder may be used for parking). Side: 10 feet, fully landscaped (increases one foot for every five feet of height over 35 feet). Rear: 15 feet (first 10 feet fully sodded and landscaped). Lots abutting a residential district or use follow the bufferyard standards at LDC 155.630-155.633.

PO — Professional Office

Front or street side: 30 feet (50 feet where the lot is adjacent to a traffic way with 100 feet or more of right-of-way). Side: 20 feet. Rear: 25 feet. All setbacks increase two feet for every one foot of building height beyond 25 feet.

I-L — Industrial-Light

Front, side, and rear setbacks follow the citywide bufferyard standards at LDC 155.630-155.633 rather than a flat number. No building, structure, or part of one may be within 75 feet of the right-of-way, with no direct access from Pines Boulevard, and no parking within 50 feet of a main arterial right-of-way. On a street separating I-L from a residential district, the setback is 25 feet, kept as a planting strip with no direct access to the abutting properties.

I-M — Industrial-Medium

Front, side, and rear setbacks follow the citywide bufferyard standards at LDC 155.630-155.633 rather than a flat number.

I-H — Industrial-Heavy

Front, side, and rear setbacks follow the citywide bufferyard standards at LDC 155.630-155.633 rather than a flat number. A use first permitted in I-H must be at least 300 feet from any residentially zoned property (or property zoned A, U, A-E, or R-R) and at least 50 feet from all lot lines; the 50 foot area may be used for accessory uses permitted in I-M or a more restricted district.

PUD — Planned Unit Development

A setback or yard of at least 25 feet in depth applies along all public road rights-of-way within or abutting a PUD. Setbacks, buffers, lot size, and distance between structures beyond that minimum are set through the design guidelines determined at application submittal (LDC 155.451(B)).

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