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How tall can I build in Celina?

Height caps vary widely by district: SF-R and SF-A single-family districts cap at 40 to 60 feet, C (Commercial, Office & Retail) and I (Industrial) cap at 80 feet (waivable by City Council), MF-2 allows 2 to 6 stories, and MF-3 has only a 4-story minimum with no stated citywide maximum. The Dallas North Tollway Overlay High-Rise subzone has no maximum height at all (4-story minimum), while its Suburban subzone caps at 6 stories, and the Collin County Outer Loop Overlay caps at 12 stories. A Planned Development's adopting ordinance can set a different height that controls over the base district. Start by confirming the zoning district, any applicable overlay, and any PD number on the city's public GIS (celina-public-gis-celinatx.hub.arcgis.com) or with Development Services at 972-382-2682. This pack covers incorporated Celina only; Celina's ETJ and unincorporated Collin or Denton county land have no municipal zoning.

Sources

Full text: Celina ordinance on City-hosted PDF (Development Services document center); the Code of Ordinances is also on eCode360 (https://ecode360.com/CE6272) but the Zoning Ordinance (Chapter 14) working copy the city links from its Codes & Ordinances page is this standalone PDF, most recently saved 2026-06-17 per its file metadata. eCode360 states it includes legislation through Ord. No. 2026-028 (adopted April 14, 2026), somewhat newer currency evidence than the PDF; the two platforms agree on Articles 14.01-14.04 (districts, uses, site development standards) but eCode360 carries an additional Article 14.05 (state law compliance, adopted 2019) absent from the PDF, and shows the PDF's OT and OT-R base-district sections as reserved with no text, deferring fully to the Downtown Code for those two districts. Applies to districts: SF-R, C.

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