Lot Coverage Meaning

[jar546]

Most commercial & residential developments have a maximum lot coverage requirement but not all. Where I am, for example we have zoning setbacks but no maximum lot coverage limitations for single-family dwellings. Actually, the requirement is based on the zoning, not the building. For example, if you are in a RML or Residential Medium Density and want to build a single family home, normally only seen in RS zones, you would have setbacks and maximum lot coverage. If you built the same SFR in an RS district, you would have setbacks but no maximum lot coverage so you could essentially build the home from setback to setback to setback to setback.

With all of that being said, I have one real question:

What constitutes lot coverage for your jurisdiction? Is it building footprint, or pervious vs impervious,etc?

 

[TheCommish]

We have 2 requirements
1) impervious areas, 25% of the lot mut remain unoccupied
2) Maximum building coverage 25% of the lot in the resident zone, with other zones 30, 40% and the village district at 60%

 

[mtlogcabin]

Lot Coverage. The total area of a lot covered by the principal and accessory buildings, or structures including any area occupied by overhangs or roofs and any attachment to a building or structure, but excluding (a) open decks less than 30 inches in height. (Measured from grade to top of the platform); and (b) an eave extending up to two feet from the exterior wall of the building or structure.

 

[jar546]

impervious areas, 25% of the lot mut remain unoccupied

What is an MUT?

 

[classicT]

What is an MUT?

I think it was a typo - "must"

 

[TheCommish]

fat fingers, bad sight, mut = must

 

[Paul Sweet]

Zoning is usually concerned with building volume, which translates to building footprint and height limit.

Stormwater management is concerned with runoff, which translates to impervious area. There usually aren't limits, but increasingly stringent (and expensive) requirements as impervious area increases.