Heritage Hills/Windsor Hills: Garage Rules and Tract Buffers

Last reviewed September 17, 2026 · City of Austin planning documents · Kimbrough Gray · KiliGray Homes

Both Heritage Hills and Windsor Hills adopted the three residential design tools. Windsor Hills also has a small-building condition and several directional vegetative buffers on identified tracts. The two ordinances use separate maps and should be checked independently.

Applies to: Heritage Hills Ordinance 20110113-060 and Windsor Hills Ordinance 20110113-061, subject to subsequent parcel amendments.

Restrictions traced to adopted documents

Heritage Hills adopted the tools in its zoning ordinance

Part 7 adopts front-yard impervious-cover/parking placement (§25-2-1603), garage placement (§25-2-1604), and front-porch setbacks (§25-2-1602) for the named residential uses.

20110113-060, Part 7 (PDF p. 4).

Windsor Hills has additional tract constraints

Part 7 adopts the same tools. Part 10(A) limits Tract 5 to a 10,000-square-foot building and 30-foot height. Part 10(B)–(D) requires 25-foot vegetative buffers: south on Tract 14, north/east on Tract 18, and east on Tracts 19/23, with limited permitted improvements.

20110113-061, Parts 7 and 10(A)–(D) (PDF p. 6).

The proposed housing use matters

Which garage rule applies to single-family, two-unit and three-unit projects?

Plan documents

Reading plans, amendments and PDF page references

Apply the ordinance to the parcel

Heritage Hills Ordinance 20110113-060 and Windsor Hills Ordinance 20110113-061, subject to subsequent parcel amendments. See how this review handles original ordinances, amendments and HOME.

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