Building height in Holly Springs, NC

What the Holly Springs zoning ordinance says about building height, district by district. Section numbers link to the official ordinance.

RR — Rural Residential

Maximum principal building height 35 feet (50 feet with a Conditional Zoning District). Maximum accessory building/structure height 25 feet, and an accessory building may not exceed the height of the primary building on the lot (Note N14).

Table 2.2.1-A (Sec. 2.2.1)

SR — Suburban Residential

Table 2.2.1-A (Sec. 2.2.1)

NR — Neighborhood Residential

Maximum principal building height 35 feet (50 feet with a Conditional Zoning District). Maximum accessory building/structure height 25 feet, and finished floor elevation of a residential primary building must be at least 1.5 feet above sidewalk grade.

Table 2.2.1-A (Sec. 2.2.1)

NCR — Neighborhood Center Residential

Maximum principal building height 35 feet (50 feet with a Conditional Zoning District). Maximum accessory building/structure height 25 feet. Finished floor elevation of a residential primary building must be at least 1.5 feet above sidewalk grade.

Table 2.2.1-A (Sec. 2.2.1)

MXR — Mixed-Use Residential

Maximum principal building height 35 feet (60 feet with a Conditional Zoning District, the highest CD allowance among the residential districts). Maximum accessory building/structure height 30 feet.

Table 2.2.1-A (Sec. 2.2.1)

NMX — Neighborhood Mixed-Use

Minimum principal building height 20 feet. Maximum for all buildings/structures 45 feet and 3 stories (up to 4 stories with a permitted upper-story recess). Accessory buildings/structures have no stated minimum height.

Table 2.2.2-A (Sec. 2.2.2)

DMX — Downtown Mixed-Use

Minimum principal building height 25 feet and 2 stories (ground-floor nonresidential minimum 14 feet). Maximum for all buildings/structures 45 feet and 3 stories, up to 60 feet and 4 stories with a Conditional Zoning District (Note N12 allows more than 4 stories on multi-frontage lots if the Main Street frontage does not exceed 4 stories).

Table 2.2.2-A (Sec. 2.2.2)

RMX — Regional Mixed-Use

Minimum principal building height 25 feet and 2 stories (ground-floor nonresidential minimum 14 feet). Maximum for all buildings/structures 55 feet and 5 stories (up to 6 stories with a permitted upper-story recess), and up to 110 feet and 10 stories with a Conditional Zoning District.

Table 2.2.2-A (Sec. 2.2.2)

CB — Community Business

Minimum principal building height 25 feet (ground-floor nonresidential minimum 14 feet). Maximum for all buildings/structures 60 feet; no Conditional Zoning District increase is listed for CB in Table 2.2.2-A.

Table 2.2.2-A (Sec. 2.2.2)

SP — Special District

Maximum building height for SP is established with the Conditional Zoning District (CD) that creates the district; there is no default citywide maximum in Table 2.2.3-A (Note N9).

Table 2.2.3-A (Sec. 2.2.3); Note N9

IVMX — Innovation Village Mixed-Use

Maximum building height 45 feet (100 feet with a Conditional Zoning District).

Table 2.2.3-A (Sec. 2.2.3)

BRT — Business and Research Technology

Maximum building height 100 feet. Table 2.2.3-A does not list a separate Conditional Zoning District maximum for BRT (dash in that column).

Table 2.2.3-A (Sec. 2.2.3)

HI — Heavy Industrial

Maximum building height for HI is established with the Conditional Zoning District (CD) that creates the district; there is no default citywide maximum in Table 2.2.3-A (Note N9).

Table 2.2.3-A (Sec. 2.2.3); Note N9

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