educational screening tool - not professional advice and not a zoning determination. every number here is a reading of the code until verified. read the full disclaimer.

fort worth · zoning ordinance chapter 4 · read october 2026

what a fort worth residential lot allows

pick the zoning district and type in the lot. this page reads back what the fort worth zoning ordinance lets the lot hold: homes, yards, the footprint left inside them, height, coverage, parking and the accessory unit rule. a screen, not a feasibility report.

inputs

zoning districtbase district on the city map

lot width (ft)at the building line

lot depth (ft)front to rear

lot area (sf)or type it - depth follows

corner lotthe street-side yard grows

street typea-7.5 and a-5 front yards

bedrooms per homeparking rule

next to one- or two-family zoningcr, c and d only

what the lot allows

code checks - the numbers behind the claims

what this page does not check

overlays and planned developments. pd, conservation, historic and design overlays control over the base district. none of them are read here.
the established front yard. the front setback is the greatest of the platted building line, the district figure and the nearest house on either side, up to 50 ft, once 40% of the blockface is built (6.101(d)). this page uses the district figure only; on a built-up block the real line is usually deeper.
projected front yards on corner lots. the street-side yard of a corner lot may have to match the front yards of the lots behind it (6.101(f)). the page uses the table's street-side figure.
deed restrictions and plat notes. private, and often stricter than zoning.
the multifamily buffer geometry. next to one- or two-family zoning, cr, c and d buildings step back on a 3:1 or 2:1 slope from the shared line, 30 ft at least, with a bufferyard and screen fence (4.710 to 4.712). the page flags it and uses the 30 ft floor; it does not draw the slope.
what "open space" counts. the cr, c and d open-space minimums are shown as a cap on everything that is not open; the ordinance's own definition decides what a courtyard, a drive or a pool counts as.
trees, floodplain, drainage, utilities, parking layout, fire access - the things that usually decide a project after zoning says yes.
a plat. dividing a lot is a platting case under the subdivision ordinance. a tract of five acres or more with no recorded plat may also use the state's 2025 small-lot standards (ordinance 28525-05-2026: 3,000 to 4,000 sf lots, 30 ft wide, 70% coverage, 15 / 5 / 10 ft yards, one parking space). not modelled here.

talk to mark. this page tells you what the code says a lot can hold. whether it should, and what it costs to get there, is the conversation: get in touch and bring the address.