El Paso, TX

11 zoning districts · Population 681,124

A-2

Apartment District

This district promotes and preserves residential development with a more urban appearance, permitting a mixture of housing types at medium densities.

Height: 45 ft Min Lot: 6,500 sqft 4 permitted uses
C-1

Neighborhood Commercial District

This district provides compatible neighborhood convenience goods and services that serve day-to-day needs, and permits locations for business and professional offices and retail category uses within adjacent residential areas.

Height: 45 ft FAR: 0.3 8 permitted uses
C-2

Community Commercial District

This district is for establishments providing goods or rendering services which support the community's trade and service establishments and serve multi-neighborhoods.

Height: 45 ft Min Lot: 20,000 sqft 2 permitted uses
C-3

General Commercial District

This district permits a wide range of regional commercial activities generating large amounts of employment and traffic, serving a wide region.

Height: 45 ft 13 permitted uses
G-MU

General Mixed Use District

This district accommodates, encourages, and promotes innovatively designed developments involving large-scale developments that can function as individual neighborhoods, small-scale developments requiring flexibility, or transitional areas.

Height: 45 ft 6 permitted uses
M-1

Light Manufacturing District

This district provides locations for light-intensity industries involving manufacturing, assembling, distribution and warehousing, while supporting commercial uses and preserving a light industrial nature.

10 permitted uses
M-2

Heavy Manufacturing District

This district provides for the most intensive industrial uses which may be characteristic of nuisance or hazardous conditions, serving the entire city.

2 permitted uses
R-1

Single-Family Residential District

This district is intended to sustain attractive, older residential neighborhoods that contain a lower residential density, and to establish new low-density residential neighborhoods in selected, undeveloped areas.

Height: 35 ft Min Lot: 13,500 sqft 9 permitted uses
R-3

Residential Multiple-Family District

This district provides opportunities for the development of attractive living environments at densities greater than permitted in other residential districts, encouraging high-density single-family and multiple-family housing types.

Height: 35 ft Min Lot: 3,000 sqft 11 permitted uses
R-5

Multi-Family Residential

Multi-family residential district permitting apartments, townhomes, and condominiums at moderate to high density.

Height: 45 ft Min Lot: 5,000 sqft 4 permitted uses
R-MU

Residential Mixed Use District

This district is for neighborhood-serving residential and commercial land uses, designed to be compatible with residential areas and allow for flexibility and creative design.

Height: 45 ft Min Lot: 2,420 sqft 3 permitted uses