What the Fuquay-Varina zoning ordinance says about setbacks, district by district. Section numbers link to the official ordinance.
Front: 40 feet. Side: 25 feet. Rear: 25 feet. On a corner lot, the side setback adjacent to the right-of-way is 10 feet greater than the district minimum, except a garage must be at least 20 feet from the corner side property line. This table was read from the 2019 amending ordinance; a verifier should confirm no later amendment changed this figure in the live 2026 ordinance text.
Front: 35 feet. Side: 15 feet. Rear: 30 feet. On a corner lot, the side setback adjacent to the right-of-way is 10 feet greater than the district minimum, except a garage must be at least 20 feet from the corner side property line. This table was read from the 2019 amending ordinance; a verifier should confirm no later amendment changed this figure in the live 2026 ordinance text.
Front: 30 feet. Side: 10 feet. Rear: 30 feet. On a corner lot, the side setback adjacent to the right-of-way is 10 feet greater than the district minimum, except a garage must be at least 20 feet from the corner side property line. This table was read from the 2019 amending ordinance; a verifier should confirm no later amendment changed this figure in the live 2026 ordinance text.
Front: 30 feet. Side: 8 feet. Rear: 30 feet. On a corner lot, the side setback adjacent to the right-of-way is 10 feet greater than the district minimum, except a garage must be at least 20 feet from the corner side property line. This table was read from the 2019 amending ordinance; a verifier should confirm no later amendment changed this figure in the live 2026 ordinance text.
Front: 25 feet. Side: 8 feet. Rear: 25 feet. On a corner lot, the side setback adjacent to the right-of-way is 10 feet greater than the district minimum, except a garage must be at least 20 feet from the corner side property line. This table was read from the 2019 amending ordinance; a verifier should confirm no later amendment changed this figure in the live 2026 ordinance text.
Front: 20 feet. Side: 10 feet. Rear: 10 feet. This session re-derived all three figures by cross-checking the row's character-column position against the fully-populated Resource Conservation and Research Light Industrial rows in the same source table (the earlier draft under-read the front figure as 10 feet, a column-position error corrected this session). This table was read from the 2019 amending ordinance; a verifier should confirm no later amendment changed this figure in the live 2026 ordinance text.
Front: 20 feet. Side: 10 feet. Rear: 20 feet. This table was read from the 2019 amending ordinance; a verifier should confirm no later amendment changed this figure in the live 2026 ordinance text.
Front: 100 feet. Side: 40 feet. Rear: 50 feet. The earlier draft misassigned these three figures (it read the row as Front 40 / Rear 50 with a stray, unplaced 100). Re-checking the row's character-column position against the fully-populated Resource Conservation row in the same source table this session shows the correct order is Front 100 / Side 40 / Rear 50. This table was read from the 2019 amending ordinance; a verifier should confirm no later amendment changed this figure in the live 2026 ordinance text.
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