Overview
Worth knowing
- v1 profile cited 'Chapter 25 — Zoning Ordinance' and a district roster of SF-1/SF-2/MF-1/MF-2/MF-3/C-1/C-2/C-3/I-1/I-2/PF. Authoritative killeentexas.gov sources establish Chapter 31 as the zoning chapter and a completely different roster (A, A-R1, SR-1, SR-2, R-1, SF-2, RM-1, RT-1, R-2, R-3, R-3F, R-3A, B-1, B-2, B-3, NBD, B-4, B-5, M-1, M-2). v1 was generic-Texas fabrication; >70% district roster change.
- Killeen qualifies for TX SB 840 MF-by-right (pop ≥150k in county ≥300k). But Fort Cavazos AICUZ covers a meaningful slice of northern/eastern commercial-zoned parcels. Where SB 840 mandates MF and AICUZ prohibits residential (Clear Zone, APZ-I, DNL 70+), federal controls per FM-P — NOT a pure state preemption.
- Killeen has TWO airports creating airspace overlays: (1) Skylark Field (ILE/KILE) — civilian-only municipal airport east of Killeen; (2) Killeen-Fort Hood Regional (GRK/KGRK) — joint-use facility located on Fort Cavazos (Robert Gray Army Airfield). GRK Part 77 surfaces largely coincide with Fort Cavazos AICUZ. Hazard zoning is administered via the Killeen/Harker Heights/Bell County Joint Airport Zoning Board ordinance, NOT Chapter 31.
+ 6 more in Quirks & notes
Districts
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| Code | Name | Category | Min lot | Height | Coverage | FAR | Du/ac | Parking | Setbacks F/S/R |
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| A | Agricultural District | ag | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| A-R1 | Agricultural Single-Family Residential District | res_sf | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| SR-1 | Suburban Residential Single-Family Residential District | res_sf | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| SR-2 | Suburban Residential Single-Family District | res_sf | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| R-1 | Single-Family Residential District | res_sf | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| SF-2 | Single-Family Residential District | res_sf | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| RM-1 | Residential Modular Home Single-Family District | res_sf | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| RT-1 | Residential Townhouse Single-Family District | res_mf | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| R-2 | Two-Family Residential District | res_mf | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| R-3 | Multifamily Residential District | res_mf | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| R-3F | Multifamily Residential District (variant — Article IV Division 8A) | res_mf | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| R-3A | Multifamily Apartment Residential District | res_mf | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| B-1 | Professional Business District | com | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| B-2 | Local Retail District | retail | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| B-3 | Local Business District | com | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| NBD | Neighborhood Business District | com | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| B-4 | Business District | com | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| B-5 | Business District | com | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| M-1 | Manufacturing District | ind | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
| M-2 | Heavy Manufacturing District | ind | — | — | — | — | — | — | — / — / — |
Confidence: confirmed partial under review not found
Overlays
AICUZ
Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood) AICUZ (Air Installation Compatible Use Zone)
military_airportFP
Floodplain Overlay (Chapter 12 — NOT Chapter 31)
floodplainHOD
Historic Overlay District
historicAIRPORT_HAZARD
Killeen Municipal Airport Hazard Zoning Ordinance (Skylark Field ILE) — administered by Killeen/Harker Heights/Bell County Joint Airport Zoning Board
airportENV
Environmental / Riparian Overlay
environmentalTOD
Transit-Oriented Development Overlay
todCBD
Downtown / CBD Form/Bulk Overlay
downtownCORRIDOR
Corridor / Highway Overlay
corridorAH_BONUS
Affordable Housing / Density Bonus Overlay
affordable_housingState preemptions
Non-applicable laws (2)
Texas SB 840 (2025)preempted_by_state
Qualifying condition
Inputs: city.population=165,000 (Census PEP 2024-07-01 estimate for Killeen place 4840144); county.population=415,000 (Census PEP 2024-07-01 for Bell County); parcel.base_zone_category ∈ {com, office, retail, warehouse, mu} matches Killeen B-1/B-2/B-3/B-4/B-5/NBD/M-1 warehouse parcels. Vintage 2026-04-25. Threshold: population ≥150,000 AND county ≥300,000. Both met — Killeen QUALIFIES.
Texas SB 15 (2025) — Small-Lot Deregulationpreempted_by_state
Qualifying condition
Inputs: parcel.lot_area_sf ≤ 4,000 (predicate is per-parcel, not city-level). Vintage 2026-04-25. Threshold: lot ≤4,000 sf. Killeen has no city-level gate — preemption applies to any qualifying small lot in Killeen.
Adopted building codes
Home rule; major cities on 2024 IBC
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Amendment history
| Date | Kind | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| amendment effective | c§31-188 (R-1 area regulations) / c§31-195 (SF-2 area regulations) — Killeen Legistar Chapter 31 amendment ord. footer dated October 6, 2023 | |
| supplement effective |
Quirks & notes
- v1 profile cited 'Chapter 25 — Zoning Ordinance' and a district roster of SF-1/SF-2/MF-1/MF-2/MF-3/C-1/C-2/C-3/I-1/I-2/PF. Authoritative killeentexas.gov sources establish Chapter 31 as the zoning chapter and a completely different roster (A, A-R1, SR-1, SR-2, R-1, SF-2, RM-1, RT-1, R-2, R-3, R-3F, R-3A, B-1, B-2, B-3, NBD, B-4, B-5, M-1, M-2). v1 was generic-Texas fabrication; >70% district roster change.
- Killeen qualifies for TX SB 840 MF-by-right (pop ≥150k in county ≥300k). But Fort Cavazos AICUZ covers a meaningful slice of northern/eastern commercial-zoned parcels. Where SB 840 mandates MF and AICUZ prohibits residential (Clear Zone, APZ-I, DNL 70+), federal controls per FM-P — NOT a pure state preemption.
- Killeen has TWO airports creating airspace overlays: (1) Skylark Field (ILE/KILE) — civilian-only municipal airport east of Killeen; (2) Killeen-Fort Hood Regional (GRK/KGRK) — joint-use facility located on Fort Cavazos (Robert Gray Army Airfield). GRK Part 77 surfaces largely coincide with Fort Cavazos AICUZ. Hazard zoning is administered via the Killeen/Harker Heights/Bell County Joint Airport Zoning Board ordinance, NOT Chapter 31.
- Killeen's floodplain regulation lives in Chapter 12 (Flood Damage Prevention), NOT Chapter 31 (Zoning). Verbatim Drainage Design Manual quote: 'Finished floor elevations shall be a minimum of 2 feet above the applicable base flood elevation per City Ordinance Chapter 12, as amended.' This means floodplain is a parallel ordinance, not a zoning overlay. Killeen has 2-ft freeboard above NFIP minimum (which would help with CRS rating).
- Killeen's airport-hazard zoning is administered by the Killeen/Harker Heights/Bell County Joint Airport Zoning Board under Tex. Local Gov't Code Ch. 241. Cross-referenced in sister-jurisdiction Harker Heights §§97.01-97.02 (amlegal). NOT in Chapter 31.
- Historic Overlay District (HOD) IS a codified Chapter 31 overlay — Article IV Division 17 §§31-391 through 31-394 (with §31-401 vacant-structures provisions added in 2024 amendment). Has registration requirement, design oversight by Development Services, conditional-use-permit thresholds for business uses (§31-456 cross-reference), and §31-7 penalty anchor. Boundary set by separate establishment ordinance.
- v1 referenced 'Leon River' as primary Killeen floodway. The Leon River is upstream of Killeen (feeds Belton Lake). Killeen's primary flood-prone corridors are the Nolan Creek system.
- Killeen has TWO single-family districts at different intensity tiers: R-1 (6,000 sf min lot, 60-ft width, 100-ft depth) and SF-2 (5,000 sf min lot, 50-ft width, 100-ft depth, 1-ac project minimum, PUD required at 25 ac). SF-2 is a smaller-lot, larger-project-required district — suited to subdivision development. R-1 is the legacy individual-lot SF district.
- On 2023-10-06 Killeen amended R-1 (§31-188) and SF-2 (§31-195) front yards from 25 ft to 20 ft, and R-1 side yard from 7 ft to 5 ft. Older code references (pre-2023) cite 25 ft front. Current effective values are 20 ft front, 5 ft side, 25/20 ft rear (R-1/SF-2).
Formulas
Definitions
- height
- Definition not retrieved — Chapter 31 §31-1 Short Title and definitions section not accessible due to Municode SPA / elaws 503 blockers; field under_review
- lot_coverage
- Definition not retrieved — under_review
- density
- Definition not retrieved — under_review
- setback
- Defined by yard depth/width per district; verbatim per c§31-188 / c§31-195 for R-1/SF-2 — measured from front street building line (front), street side (side), and easement centerline (rear, per Subdivision Ordinance cross-reference)
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Sources & references
Primary source
Retrieval failure: municode_spa
Research status
Publication gates
| primary url present | passed | Municode canonical https://library.municode.com/tx/killeen/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_CH31ZO + 6 city-hosted fallbacks (killeentexas.gov + killeen.legistar.com + killeengis.killeentexas.gov) |
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| no aggregator cited | passed | scan clean — no zoneomics/steadily/siteplanguide/sitedesignguide/siteplancreator/propwire/zonara/unzoned cited in confirmed/partial values |
| confidence tags full form | passed | R-1 and SF-2 carry full {v,c,status} short-form citations with §31-188/§31-195 anchors and Legistar PDF evidence URLs; HOD overlay parameters carry {v,c,status} with §31-393/§31-394 anchors; floodplain freeboard carries {v,c,status} with Drainage Design Manual citation. SB 840 / SB 15 use confirmed long-form {law, qualifying_condition_checked, preempting_law, preempted_value, preempted_effective_date} structure. |
| overlays have parameters trigger confidence | passed | AICUZ (federal_state_conflict + DoDI 4165.57 cited; AICUZ confirmed as non-Chapter-31, federal-program-only), FP (Chapter 12 anchor + 2-ft freeboard verbatim), HOD (8 parameters with §-anchors), AIRPORT_HAZARD (5 parameters with Joint Board cite), ENV (Drainage Design Manual cite). All have parameters+trigger+status+citation. TOD/CBD/CORRIDOR/AH_BONUS are correctly not_found with search_performed. |
| preempt section city specific | passed | 2 laws with city-specific qualifying_condition_checked (SB 840: population 165k Census PEP 2024 ≥150k threshold + Bell County 415k ≥300k threshold; SB 15: per-parcel ≤4,000 sf predicate) |
Data quality
68%completeness24 confirmed19 partial4 not found
Documented gaps
- Per-district dimensional tables for A-R1, SR-1, SR-2, RM-1, RT-1, R-2 (base), R-3 (base), R-3F, R-3A (base, PUD trigger known), B-1, B-2, B-3, NBD, B-4, B-5, M-1, M-2 — Municode SPA + elaws 503 still block; would require contacting Killeen Planning Dept (254-501-7631) or unblocked Municode access
- AICUZ overlay confirmed as NOT in Chapter 31 — application is via federal DoD program
- Airport hazard ordinance text — separate joint ordinance, not in Chapter 31 hosting
Known issues
status:solidpriority:mediumcohort:remaining-dimensional-blockedblocker:municode-spa-elaws-503-for-non-r1-sf2-districts
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