Minimum living area
Section 1
3,000 SF on Lots 1–6 Blk 8 and Lots 1–14 Blk 1 · 2,500 SF fronting Crown Ranch Blvd · 2,000 SF elsewhere
Section 2
2,500 SF fronting the Blvd · 2,300 SF elsewhere · 2,800 SF two story or more
Section 3
2,500 SF one story · 2,800 SF two story or more
Section 4
2,500 SF fronting the Blvd · 2,300 SF elsewhere · 2,800 SF two story or more
Section 5
3,000 SF one story · 3,400 SF two story or more
Section 6
2,700 SF one story · 3,200 SF two story or more
Minimums exclude porches, garages, overhangs, and covered walkways. No home may exceed three stories, none on waterfront. Two stories or more must place at least 60% of the total square footage on the ground floor.
Building setbacks
Sec 1, 2, 3, 6
75 ft front · 50 ft rear · 20 ft side · 100 ft rear on lake or detention lots (not applicable in Section 6)
Section 4
125 ft front · 75 ft rear · 20 ft side · 150 ft rear on lake or detention lots
Section 5
150 ft front · 75 ft rear · 20 ft side · 150 ft rear on lake or detention lots
Barns
200 ft front in Sec 1, 2, 3, 6 · 350 ft in Sec 4 · 400 ft in Sec 5
Driveways
Minimum 12 ft wide, at least 10 ft off the side property line
Culverts
24 ft wide in Grimes County, 20 ft in Montgomery · 18 in minimum diameter
Where a lot fronts two streets, the side with the least frontage is the front. The main residence faces the street; everything else sits behind it.
Architecture
Exteriors in brick, natural or cultured stone, stucco, stained or painted wood siding, or concrete lap siding. Plywood siding is prohibited.
Roofs in composition shingle, tile, slate, or standing seam metal, in dark brown or dark gray tones. Minimum 8/12 pitch on composition, 6/12 on tile or metal, 4/12 on porches and overhangs.
Laminated architectural shingles rated at least 230 lb per square, 130 mph uplift, 25-year warranty. Three-tab is allowed only as starter and cap.
Garages hold two to four cars, six in Sections 5 and 6, and must load from the side or rear. No garage doors facing the street at the front elevation.
Windows finished in bronze, white, black, tan, or natural wood. Chimneys in masonry, brick, or stucco with an exposed mass of at least 24 by 24 inches.
Eave overhangs 18 to 20 inches, rakes at least 12 inches, fascia no smaller than 1x6. Elevations should avoid a flat "shoebox" face.
Site & utilities
Foundations designed, signed, and sealed by a Texas-registered professional engineer. Slabs sit at least 12 inches above natural grade, and any sidewall over 18 inches gets clad in the finish material.
Septic permitted through Grimes or Montgomery County, aerobic or conventional, with a county certificate before occupancy and 150 ft of separation from the water supply well easement.
Private water wells are allowed on homesites of one and a half acres or more, with a Well Application on file.
Pools are in-ground only, sited to the side or behind the house, muted shell colors, equipment screened, no more than a foot above grade.
Standby generators run on natural gas, sit behind the front building line, stay under 70 dB at 20 feet, and get screened if visible from the street.
Electric is Entergy in Sections 1 and 3 and Mid-South in Sections 2, 4, 5, and 6. Water is Mid-South, gas is Unigas.
Outbuildings & land use
A guest structure may be attached to the house or garage and built at the same time: 500 to 1,500 SF in Sections 1 through 4, 1,000 to 2,500 SF in Section 5, 1,000 to 1,800 SF in Section 6.
Outbuildings, workshops, and barns cap at 1,800 SF of covered space, 2,000 SF for barns in Section 5. No pole-and-tin or light-duty metal structures.
Horses are allowed at one per acre on lots of one and a half acres or more in Section 1, and one per one and a half acres on lots of three acres or more in Sections 2 through 6.
Fences run 42 to 72 inches. No barbed wire, chain link, or white picket, and no white finishes. Wrought iron must be black factory-applied.
Solar panels need written ACC approval first, sit behind the residence perimeter or on a roof plane not visible from the front, with racking matched to the roof color.
Trees & landscape
Removing any tree eight inches or larger, outside the pad for the house and garage, requires ACC approval and replacement of equal caliper. A 12-inch tree means two 6-inch trees.
Tree protection fencing goes up at the drip line. No equipment storage, excavation, or heavy traffic inside it.
A preliminary landscape plan comes with the new-home application. The final plan is approved before installation and completed within six months of occupancy.
Sod is required from the property line to the edge of all street frontage, and on any bare soil left by construction.
Silt fencing is mandatory before construction begins, and any sediment that reaches a Crown Ranch ditch has to be regraded and resodded.
