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Setbacks in McKinney, TX

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

R43 — Residential Estate

Front: 35 feet. Rear: 35 feet. Side interior: 20 feet. Side corner lot: 35 feet. See Sec. 204DD for special setback rules on plats, corner lots, and encroachments.

R8 — Residential

Front: 20 feet. Rear: 15 feet (a minimum 20-foot driveway length from garage to street/alley right-of-way applies per the Engineering Design Manual). Side interior: 5 feet (may be reduced to zero with a 10-foot building separation maintained, applied block-by-block for zero-lot-line product). Side corner lot: 15 feet.

R6 — Residential

Front: 20 feet. Rear: 10 feet. Side interior: 5 feet (may be reduced to zero with a 10-foot building separation, block-by-block for zero-lot-line product). Side corner lot: 15 feet. Within R6, a 10-foot front-yard encroachment zone is permitted for porches and patios (Sec. 204DD).

R5 — Residential

Front: 20 feet. Rear: 10 feet. Side interior: 5 feet (may be reduced to zero with a 10-foot building separation, block-by-block for zero-lot-line product). Side corner lot: 15 feet. Within R5, a 10-foot front-yard encroachment zone is permitted for porches and patios (Sec. 204DD).

R3 — Residential

Front: 15 feet. Rear: 10 feet. Side interior: 5 feet (may be reduced to zero with a 10-foot building separation). Side corner lot: 15 feet. Platted lots of 4,000 square feet or under must provide at least one 9-by-20-foot on-site parking space perpendicular to the alley.

TR1.8 — Townhome Residential

Front: 15 feet (20 feet within the H Historic Overlay). Rear: 5 feet. Side interior: 5 feet (may be reduced to zero with a 10-foot building separation). Side corner lot: 15 feet. Minimum building separation of 10 feet applies.

MR — Mixed Residential

Varies by housing type in Table 2-10, front setbacks range 20 to 25 feet and rear 5 to 25 feet depending on type. Where a multi-family or non-residential use shares a property line with single-family, duplex, triplex, or quadplex residential use or zoning, a 25-foot setback applies for mixed-use/multi-family and 45 feet for non-residential uses along that shared line.

MF36 — Multi-Family Residential

Front: 25 feet. Rear: 20 feet. Side interior: 20 feet. Residential adjacency to a single-family, duplex, triplex, or quadplex use or zone requires 30 feet (1 story) up to 3 feet of setback per foot of building height (3+ stories); multi-family uses have a minimum residential adjacency setback of 25 feet.

C1 — Neighborhood Commercial

Front: 20 feet. Rear: 0 feet. Side interior: 0 feet. Where a non-residential use shares a property line with single-family, duplex, triplex, or quadplex residential use or zoning, the setback along that line is 30 feet (1 story), 50 feet (2 stories), or 2 feet per foot of building height (3+ stories).

C2 — Local Commercial

Front: 20 feet. Rear: 0 feet. Side interior: 0 feet. Residential adjacency setbacks of 30 to 50+ feet apply as in C1.

C3 — Regional Commercial

Front: 20 feet. Rear: 0 feet. Side interior: 0 feet. Residential adjacency setbacks of 30 to 50+ feet apply as in C1.

O1 — Office

Front: 20 feet. Rear: 0 feet. Side interior: 0 feet. Residential adjacency setbacks of 30 to 50+ feet apply as in C1.

O2 — Regional Office

Front: 20 feet. Rear: 0 feet. Side interior: 0 feet. Residential adjacency setbacks of 30 to 50+ feet apply as in C1.

I1 — Light Industrial

Front: 20 feet. Rear: 0 feet. Side interior: 0 feet. Residential adjacency setbacks of 30 to 50+ feet apply as in C1.

I2 — Heavy Industrial

Front: 20 feet. Rear: 0 feet. Side interior: 0 feet. Residential adjacency setbacks of 30 to 50+ feet apply as in C1.

GC — Government Complex

The GC district table (Table 2-20) sets no fixed numeric dimensional standards: lot area, lot width, lot depth, front, rear, and side interior setbacks, and maximum height are all listed as not applicable. Sec. 204U itself does not set a numeric standard in place of the table. Government and public facility projects in GC are sized and sited case by case rather than against a citywide chart; confirm actual setbacks and height for a specific site with the Planning Department at 972-547-2000.

AG — Agriculture

Front: 35 feet. Rear: 35 feet. Side interior: 20 feet. Side corner lot: 25 feet (Table 2-21). Confirmed against the source table image. Table 2-25's non-residential summary lists a different side interior figure (25 feet matches the side corner value here, not side interior) for AG, but Table 2-21 is AG's own controlling district table and is the value carried here.

AP — Airport

Front: 20 feet. Rear: 0 feet. Side interior: 0 feet. These provisions apply only to the extent compatible with Chapter 118 of the McKinney Code; Chapter 118 controls in any conflict.

PD — Planned Development

Setbacks and other dimensional standards come from the PD ordinance for the specific property; where silent, the standard zoning ordinance for the comparable base district applies (Sec. 204X).

TMN — Traditional McKinney Neighborhood Overlay

Front, rear, and side-corner setbacks are reduced to 80 percent of the underlying base district minimum. Side interior setback is the same as the underlying base district. Maximum lot coverage is 95 percent (Table 2-23).

All districts

Where a setback is established on a filed plat, the plat setback controls over the zoning chart (Sec. 204DD). Corner lots must provide a front setback on all street-facing frontages except where the block face has no lots fronting that street. Front-yard encroachments (paving, subsurface slabs, eaves) are limited; a 10-foot porch/patio encroachment zone applies only in R6 and R5. Side-yard encroachments are limited to 12 inches for architectural features and 24 inches for roof eaves.

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