What kind of zoning ordinance does Brooklyn Park use?

Brooklyn Park administers a conventional zoning ordinance through its Planning Division, published via American Legal Publishing's code library, covering residential, commercial, and industrial districts.

How do I find the zoning for an address in Brooklyn Park, MN?

Brooklyn Park's Planning Division maintains an interactive zoning map, and staff can confirm the base district and any applicable overlays for a specific parcel by phone or email.

Does Brooklyn Park still have greenfield development capacity?

Yes, relative to many inner-ring Twin Cities suburbs, Brooklyn Park retains meaningful undeveloped and underdeveloped land, which keeps rezoning and new subdivision activity more active than in fully built-out neighboring cities.

Brooklyn Park, Minnesota · city zoning districts · 17 districts

Brooklyn Park, MN zoning map & districts

Brooklyn Park, one of the larger second-ring suburbs in the Twin Cities metro, regulates land use through a zoning ordinance administered by the city's Planning Division within Community Development. The city retains meaningful greenfield land alongside established residential neighborhoods, giving it more active infill and new-construction zoning activity than fully built-out inner-ring suburbs.

The code City of Brooklyn Park Chapter 152: Zoning Code

Brooklyn Park zoning map

Brooklyn Park's Planning Division publishes the zoning ordinance through American Legal Publishing's code library and maintains an interactive zoning map for parcel-specific lookups; the division can be reached directly for zoning verification.

There is no link to the official map here yet — confirm current district boundaries directly with the Brooklyn Park planning or zoning department.

A published summary is never the authority. The adopted ordinance and the city's official zoning map govern, and both change — verify the district and every standard on your parcel before you rely on it.

How zoning works in Brooklyn Park

The ordinance text is published through American Legal Publishing's code library, and the city maintains an interactive zoning map for parcel-level lookups; each district's allowed uses, site design, and building design standards are set out use-by-use in that ordinance rather than in a short summary table, so confirming exact standards for a given district is worth doing directly against the code.

Brooklyn Park zoning districts by family

The 17 district codes below are the ones that decide most projects in Brooklyn Park, grouped by what they are for rather than by the order the ordinance prints them.

Key districts in the City of Brooklyn Park Chapter 152: Zoning Code — a curated reference, not the exhaustive list. Confirm against the current adopted code.
Code	District	What it is for
Residential 5 districts
R1	Detached Single-Family Estate District
R2	Detached Single-Family District
R3	Detached Single-Family and Two-Family District
R4	Multiple Family District
R5	Multiple Family District
Mixed-use 4 districts
NMU	Neighborhood Mixed Use District
MU	Mixed Use District
TOD-C	Transit Oriented Development Center District
TOD-E	Transit Oriented Development Edge District
Commercial 4 districts
B1	Office Park District
B2	Neighborhood Retail Business District
B3	General Business District
B4	General Business District
Industrial 2 districts
BP	Business Park District
I	General Industrial District
Special purpose 2 districts
UR	Urban Reserve District
PI	Public Institution District

Brooklyn Park zoning — common questions

What kind of zoning ordinance does Brooklyn Park use?: Brooklyn Park administers a conventional zoning ordinance through its Planning Division, published via American Legal Publishing's code library, covering residential, commercial, and industrial districts.
How do I find the zoning for an address in Brooklyn Park, MN?: Brooklyn Park's Planning Division maintains an interactive zoning map, and staff can confirm the base district and any applicable overlays for a specific parcel by phone or email.
Does Brooklyn Park still have greenfield development capacity?: Yes, relative to many inner-ring Twin Cities suburbs, Brooklyn Park retains meaningful undeveloped and underdeveloped land, which keeps rezoning and new subdivision activity more active than in fully built-out neighboring cities.

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Keep reading

← Minnesota zoning — who holds the zoning power in Minnesota, under which enabling statute, and the reforms that override local rules.

Other Minnesota cities

The zoning reference → — every state, plus city-level district guides like this one.

Brooklyn Park zoning summaries on this page are provided for information, not legal advice. Confirm every project against the current adopted code for the jurisdiction.