Residential swimming pool setbacks

[plnrgrl]

Looking for what is recommended for residential backyard swimming pool deck setbacks. Our code currently requires fifteen feet from the rear lot line, and seven from the side. I don't know why the difference, but I think that is too much, especially when other accessory structures (such as detached garages which have a roof where rain can run off to the neighbor's yard) are only three feet.

We also have a higher side setback requirement if it is a two story house to nine feet.

[mendelman]

We require that the pool be in the rear yard and the pool plus all its decks/appurtenances must be setback at least 8 feet from any side or rear lot line.

[JNA]

Like an accessory structure -
10 ft seperation from house,
2 ft side and backyard set backs, and
not in the front yard.

[craines]

5' from the site and 5' from the rear. Can be half in your house and half out if you like.

[Luca]

This may be a dumb question but why is stuff like this even regulated?

It seems like petty mciromanagement ("your pool cannot be x feet from your house, it needs to be x+1 feet [why?]").

[plnrgrl]

Stormwater runoff, we don't like it to dump onto each other's property.

[mendelman]

Stormwater runoff, we don't like it to dump onto each other's property.

And probably wanting to maintain open areas around the perimeter of the property to keep such activities from imposing too much an impact on neighboring properties.

and

To usually allow for construction equipment movement around the proposed pools.

It could be veiwed as mirco-management, but I think this is a type of structure that needs regulation versus as swing set or trellis/arbor.

[hilldweller]

This may be a dumb question but why is stuff like this even regulated?

It seems like petty mciromanagement ("your pool cannot be x feet from your house, it needs to be x+1 feet [why?]").

It is a way of buffering from the neighbors. In many places setbacks are really the only thing restricting the size of homes and accessory structures too.

[Whose Yur Planner]

The pools would have to meet the setback requirement for the zoning district they are in.

[bhawkins]

Swimming pools fall under accessory buildings less than ten feet in height in our regulations and as such must be setback at least 5 feet from the side and rear yard unless it's in the R-90 (residential 90k square foot lots) where the setback is 10 feet from the side and rear yard.

[mendelman]

...it's in the R-90 (residential 90k square foot lots)... What the.....? Minimum lot size of 90,000 sqft? That's like....half a county. Holy crap that's huge.

[Richmond Jake]

...
10 ft seperation from house,
....

My pool would be nonconforming in your jurisdiction...or would my house be nonconforming??

[mendelman]

My pool would be nonconforming in your jurisdiction...or would my house be nonconforming?? Well, since a accessory building cannot proceed a principal structure, the pool would nonconforming....Duh.

[dominimami305]

i was reading on the initial post and affordable housing came to mind.

Stormwater runoff, we don't like it to dump onto each other's property.

If set backs are a way of stormwater runoff management, why is it that most affordable housing developments show no concern for this? like the people living there dont care about whats "dumped" on their property." Zoning?