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Look up your address on the City of Fort Worth’s zoning map. The letters on your lot, like A-5 or A-7.5, are your zoning district, and they set what you can build there.
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From the City of Fort Worth’s Zoning page, its Summary of Zoning Districts, its zoning verification letter form and its guide to the zoning map, read November 7, 2026.
Find it
The City’s zoning map finds the district on your lot, free. A zoning verification letter puts it in writing.
The City’s own map, free, for any address in Fort Worth.
Open the zoning map and click “I want to...”
Choose “Enter a street address,” type yours and pick “CFW Streets” (CFW is the City of Fort Worth).
Right-click your lot, choose “Find data on the map,” then “Zoning Fill.” Your district is there.
The City’s Zoning page also links a second tool, its CFW Permit Assist Zoning Tool.
When you need it in writing, the City will write a letter that gives your lot’s zoning district. Email the form to ZVL@fortworthtexas.gov, one property per form. It’s $56.25 and can take up to 10 business days, or $112.50 for up to 3 business days.
Questions about what you find? The City’s zoning line is 817-392-8028.
Found your district? Tell us the project and we’ll price it.
Read it
On a house lot, the letter is the kind of district. “A” districts are one-family. In most A districts the number is the minimum lot size in thousands of square feet, so A-7.5 asks for at least 7,500. A-2.5A is in acres. The City’s table below gives each one.
Most of the rest of the map’s letters are for apartments (CR, C, D and UR), shops and offices (ER, E, FR, F, G and H), industry (I, J and K), and mixed use (MU-1 and MU-2) plus the City’s named design districts. The City’s summary lists every one. The City’s Summary of Zoning Districts
What each one-family district allows on your lot, in feet: Fort Worth setback requirements
Know your letters? Walk the house with a designer and a builder.
From the City of Fort Worth’s Summary of Zoning Districts, revised May 26, 2026.
The extra layers
Some lots don’t carry a plain district. A PD lot has its own rules, written for it. An overlay is a second layer on top of your district, many with their own review.
The City calls a Planned Development (PD) a
“Special district permitting specific residential, commercial, industrial and mixed uses, normally requiring site plan approval prior to development.”
Its own documents set its standards, and the map links to them.
On the map: right-click your lot, choose “Find data on the map,” click “Zoning Fill,” then “PD,” scroll to “PD_Document” and click “View Documents.”
On a PD lot or under an overlay? Bring its documents to the walk-through.
Overlay districts
Before you draw
Your district sets how close to the property line you can build, how tall, and how much of the lot the house can cover. Check it before anything is drawn, so the plan fits the lot the first time.
Each one-family district has its own front, side and rear setbacks and its own limit on lot coverage. Fort Worth setback requirements has the figures for each.
The garage apartment rules for one-family districts are on the same page; the service is garage apartments.
The City says land “must be zoned and platted” before it’s developed, and a plat that conflicts with its zoning can’t be processed. Fort Worth replat requirements
A zoning change goes to two public hearings: the Zoning Commission recommends, and City Council approves or denies it the following month. The City mails notice to landowners within 300 feet. If Council denies it, a like request waits 12 months.
Variances from your district’s standards go to the Board of Adjustment, the citizen court City Council appoints to hear variances, special exceptions and appeals of how the ordinance is read.
Planning an addition or a garage apartment? Start with the walk-through.
Questions
Have your district and a project in mind? Tell us about it.
A-5 is a one-family district. The City’s Summary of Zoning Districts describes it as “One-family detached dwellings (min. lot size 5,000 sq. ft.).” Its setbacks, height and lot coverage are in the zoning ordinance, and our setback guide lists them.
B is the City’s Two-Family district, not business. The City’s summary allows “One-family and two-family detached and attached,” with a minimum lot of 5,000 square feet for two attached homes on one lot and 7,500 for two detached.
No. Your council district is the part of the city your council member represents. Your zoning district is the set of rules on your lot, shown on the City’s zoning map as letters like A-5 or PD (Planned Development). The “Find your current district” link on the City’s Zoning page returns your council district.
Ask the City for a zoning verification letter. Email its form to ZVL@fortworthtexas.gov, one property per form. It’s $56.25 for up to 10 business days or $112.50 for up to 3. The City says the letter gives the zoning district, and it can’t verify parking, legal non-conforming status or violations.
Planned Development. The City calls it a “Special district permitting specific residential, commercial, industrial and mixed uses, normally requiring site plan approval prior to development.” Its own documents set its rules, and you can open them from the zoning map: right-click the lot, “Find data on the map,” “Zoning Fill,” “PD,” then “View Documents.”
You can apply. The Zoning Commission holds a public hearing and makes a recommendation, and City Council holds a public hearing the following month and approves or denies it. The City notifies landowners within 300 feet. If Council denies it, a like request waits 12 months.
Every rule on this page is quoted or paraphrased from the City of Fort Worth’s Zoning page, its Summary of Zoning Districts (revised May 26, 2026), its Request for Zoning Verification Letter and its guide to Planned Development documents on the zoning map, read November 7, 2026.
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