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July 2018
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
County of
ST. LUCIE, FLORIDA
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CURRENT OFFICIALS
of
ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA
Frannie Hutchinson, Chair
Linda Bartz, Vice Chair
Chris Dzadovsky
Anthony Bonna
Cathy Townsend
County Commissioners
Daniel S. McIntyre
County Attorney
Joseph E. Smith
Clerk Circuit Court
Howard N. Tipton
County Administrator
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 111 Adopted May 19, 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Current Officials ............................................ iii
Officials of the County at the Time of this Codification ........ v
Preface..................................................... vii
Adopting Ordinance ......................................... ix
Checklist of Up -to -Date Pages ............................... [1]
Supplement History Table ................................... SH:1
Chapter
I. General Provisions ......................................
1:1
1.00.00.
Title .......................................
1:3
1.01.00.
Authority ..................................
1:3
1.02.00.
Purpose and Intent .........................
1:3
1.03.00.
Applicability ...............................
1:4
1.04.00.
Findings ...................................
1:4
1.05.00.
Incorporation by Reference ..................
1:5
1.06.00.
Rules of Interpretation ......................
1:5
1.07.00.
Repeal of Prior Provisions ...................
1:7
1.08.00.
Effective Date; Enactment ..................
1:7
1.09.00.
Severability ................................
1:8
1.10.00.
Minimum Requirements ....................
1:8
II. Definitions
.............................................
2:1
2.00.00.
Definitions .................................
2:3
III. Zoning Districts .......................................
3:1
3.00.00.
Zoning Districts ............................
3:3
3.01.00.
Zoning District Use Regulations .............
3:3
IV. Special Districts ........................................
4:1
4.00.00.
Airport Overlay Zones ......................
4:3
4.01.00.
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay
Zone.......................................
4:5
4.02.00.
River Park—Community Overlay Zone.......
4:13
4.03.00.
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
4:18.2
4.04.00.
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages,
Countryside) ...............................
4:22
4.05.00.
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship
Area Overlay Zone ..........................
4:49
4.06.00-4.10.00.
Reserved ..........................
4:106
4.11.00.
Historic Preservation .......................
4:106
4.12.00.
Jenkins Road Area Plan Special District .....
4:109
V. Adequate Public
Facilities ...............................
5:1
5.00.00.
Adequate Public Facilities ...................
5:3
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5.01.00.
Definitions .................................
5:5
5.02.00.
Procedure ..................................
5:10
5.03.00.
Development Not Subject to the Requirements
of Chapter V, Adequate Public Facilities .....
5:11
5.04.00.
Change of Use ..............................
5:16
5.05.00.
Demolition or Termination of Existing Land
Use........................................
5:17
5.06.00.
Level of Service Standards ..................
5:17
5.07.00.
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact
Mitigation .................................
5:25
5.08.00.
Review of Development Orders ..............
5:36
5.09.00.
Variances ..................................
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5.10.00.
Capacity Information Letters ................
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5.11.00.
Fees .......................................
5:44
5.12.00.
Conflict with Other Regulations .............
5:45
VI. Resource Protection Standards ..........................
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Vegetation Protection and Preservation ......
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Mangrove Protection ........................
6:14
6.02.00.
Environmentally Sensitive Lands............
6:15
6.03.00.
Wellfield Protection .........................
6:30
6.04.00.
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
6:36
6.05.00.
Floodplain Management ....................
6:51
6.06.00.
Mining .....................................
6:60.13
VII. Development
Design and Improvement Standards.......
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7.00.00.
General Provisions .........................
7:5
7.01.00.
Planned Unit Development ..................
7:5
7.02.00.
Planned Non -Residential Development.......
7:12
7.03.00.
Planned Mixed Use Development ............
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7.04.00.
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Require-
ments......................................
7:33
7.05.00.
Transportation Systems .....................
7:45
7.06.00.
Off -Street Parking and Loading .............
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7.07.00.
Stormwater Management ...................
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Utilities ....................................
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Landscaping and Screening .................
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Supplemental Standards ....................
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VIII. Accessory
and Temporary Structures and Uses .........
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Accessory Uses and Structures ..............
8:3
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Home Occupations ..........................
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Temporary Uses and Structures .............
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IX. Signs ..................................................
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Purpose ....................................
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Permitted Permanent and Authorized
Temporary Signs ...........................
9:3
9.02.00.
General Provisions .........................
9:19
9.03.00.
Prohibited Signs ............................
9:23
9.04.00.
Permitting and Exemptions .................
9:25
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9.05.00. Nonconforming Signs ....................... 9:28
X. Hardship Relief .........................................
10:1
10.00.00.
Nonconformities ...........................
10:3
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Variances .................................
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10.02.00.
Transferable Development Rights—(Reserved)
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10.03.00.
Eminent Domain Waiver ...................
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XI. Administration
and Enforcement ........................
11:1
11.00.00.
General Provisions; Public Notice Require-
12:8
12.05.00.
ments....................................
11:5
11.01.00.
Authorization by a Development Permit
Required Prior to Undertaking Any Develop-
12:11
12.07.00.
ment Activity .............................
11:10
11.02.00.
Procedure for Review of Site Plans .........
11:12
11.03.00.
Procedure for Platting .....................
11:47
11.04.00.
Guarantees and Sureties ...................
11:59
11.05.00.
Procedure for Obtaining Development Permits
11:64
11.06.00.
Amendments to the Code and Official Zoning
Atlas......................................
11:88
11.07.00.
Conditional Uses ..........................
11:92
11.08.00.
Development Agreements ..................
11:99
11.09.00.
Vested Rights .............................
11:105
11.10.00.
Right-of-way Abandonment and Plat Vaca-
tion Procedures ...........................
11:112
11.11.00.
Appeals ...................................
11:118
11.12.00.
Fees ......................................
11:120
11.13.00.
Enforcement of Code Provisions ............
11:120
11.14.00.
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolu-
tion - Special Master Review Process .......
11:126
XII. Decision Making and Administrative Bodies ............
12:1
12.00.00.
Board of County Commissioners............
12:3
12.01.00.
Environmental Control Board; Environmental
Officer; Environmental Control Hearing Board
12:3
12.02.00.
Planning and Zoning Commission ..........
12:4
12.03.00.
Local Planning Agency ....................
12:7
12.04.00.
Board of Adjustment ......................
12:8
12.05.00.
Office of the County Administrator .........
12:11
12.06.00.
Office of the Planning and Development
Services Director ..........................
12:11
12.07.00.
Office of the Public Works Director .........
12:13
12.08.00.
Office of the County Engineer ..............
12:13
12.09.00.
Development Review Committee ...........
12:13
XIII. Building Regulations and Public Works Construction
Manual.............................................. 13:1
13.00.00. Building Code ............................. 13:3
13.01.00-13.07.00. (Reserved) ...................... 13:25
13.08.00. Standard Housing Code .................... 13:25
13.09.00. Exterior Property Maintenance Code........ 13:26
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13.10.00-13.18.00. (Reserved) ......................
13.20.00. (Reserved) ................................
Table of Amendments .......................................
Code Comparative Table—Ordinances ........................
CodeIndex .................................................
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The table below allows users of this Land Development Code to quickly and accurately
determine what ordinances have been considered for codification in each supplement.
Ordinances that are of a general and permanent nature are codified in the Land
Development Code Book and are considered "Includes." Ordinances that are not of a general
and permanent nature are not codified in the Land Development Code Book and are
considered "Omits."
In addition, by adding to this table with each supplement, users of this Land Development
Code will be able to gain a more complete picture of the Land Development Code's historical
evolution.
Orc � .
10-026
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9- 7-2010
Inihi
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11- 9-2010
Include
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4-19-2011
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8- 2-2011
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12-20-2011
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12- 6-2011
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Include
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10- 2-2012
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12-013
12- 4-2012
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9- 3-2013
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5-21-2013
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12-17-2013
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10
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12-17-2013
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10
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12-17-2013
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10
14-019
9-16-2014
Include
11
14-021
9-16-2014
Include
11
14-026
1- 6-2015
Include
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4- 7-2015
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9- 1-2015
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1- 5-2016
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3- 1-2016
Include
14
16-009
6- 7-2016
Include
14
16-012
7-26-2016
Include
14
16-006
6- 7-2016
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15
2016-19
12-20-2016
Include
15
16-022
12-20-2016
Omit
15
2016-23
11- 1-2016
Include
15
17-002
3- 7-2017
Omit
15
2017-004
4-18-2017
Include
15
17-005
5-16-2017
Include
15
2017-018
8-15-2017
Omit
15
17-015
7- 5-2017
Include
16
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12-19-2017
Include
16
18-001
1-23-2018
Include
16
2018-006
5-15-2018
Include
16
2018-09
6- 5-2018
Include
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2.00.00. DEFINITIONS
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Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following words and terms shall, for the purposes
of this ordinance, have the meanings shown in this section. Where terms are not defined in
this ordinance and are defined in the Florida Building Code, such terms shall have the
meanings ascribed to them in that code. Where terms are not defined in this ordinance or the
Florida Building Code, such terms shall have ordinarily accepted meanings such as the
context implies:
Accessory Security Residence: One (1) dwelling unit contained within the commercial
building, for on-site security purposes.
Accessory Use: A structure or use that:
(1) Is subordinate to and serves the principal building or principal use;
(2) Is subordinate in area, extent, and purpose to the principal structure or principal use
served;
(3) Contributes to the comfort, convenience, or necessity of the occupant, business, or
industry in the principal structure or use; and
(4) Is located on the same lot as the principal structure or use.
Accessory Use: For purposes of Section 7.10.23, means a secondary use including a use
that is related to, incidental to, subordinate to and subservient to the main use of the
property on which an antenna and/or telecommunications tower is sited.
Accessway: A paved or unpaved area intended to provide ingress or egress of vehicular or
pedestrian traffic from a public or private right-of-way or easement to an off street parking,
loading, or similar area.
Acquiring Authority: The governmental entity proposing to acquire private property for
public transportation or other purpose, pursuant to eminent domain action. Acquiring
authorities include, but are not limited to, St. Lucie County ("County"), and the Florida
Department of Transportation ("FDOT").
Addition (to an Existing Building): As used in Section 6.05.00, Flood Damage Prevention,
means any walled and roofed expansion to the perimeter or height of a building.
Adult Establishment: An establishment that is one (1) or more of the following:
(1) Adult Arcade: Any place to which the public is permitted or invited wherein
coin-operated or slug -operated or electronically, electrically, or mechanically controlled
still or motion picture machines, projectors, or other image -producing devices are
maintained to show images to one (1) or more persons per machine at any one (1)
time, and where the images so displayed have as their primary or dominant theme
the depicting or describing of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical
areas".
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(2) Adult Bookstore: An establishment that sells or rents, or offers to sell or rent, for any
form of consideration, adult materials and that (a) more than twenty percent (20%)
of the stock on view to the public consists of adult materials or, (b) more than twenty
percent (20%) of its gross revenue is derived from the sale or rental of adult
materials.
Adult Materials shall mean any one (1) or more of the following:
a. Books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter, or photographs, films,
motion pictures, video cassettes or video reproductions, slides, or other visual
representations that have as their primary or dominant theme the depicting or
describing of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas" as
defined below; or
b. Instruments, devices, or paraphernalia which are designed for use in connection
with "specified sexual activities" as defined below.
(3) Adult Dancing Establishment: An establishment that permits, suffers or allows
dancers, employees or other persons to display or expose specified anatomical areas
to public view.
(4) Adult Massage Parlor: A place in which "specified anatomical areas," as defined
below, of one (1) person are touched by rubbing, stroking, kneading, or tapping by
another person who is an employee, accompanied by the display or exposure of
"specified anatomical areas," as defined below, but not including licensed health care
facilities, licensed physicians or nurses engaged in the practice of their professions,
establishments registered under F.S. Ch. 480, educational athletic facilities if the
massage is a normal and usual practice in such facilities, health clubs and athletic
clubs if the massage is incidental to or a normal part of the health and athletic
activities, except places in which sexual intercourse takes place;
(5) Adult Motel I Hotel: Any hotel, motel, boarding house, rooming house or other lodging
which includes the word "adult" in any name it uses or otherwise advertises the
presenting of closed circuit television transmissions, films, video, motion pictures or
other visual material having as its primary or dominant theme the depicting or
describing of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas," as defined
below, for observation by patrons of such establishment; or
(6) Adult Motion Picture Booth: An adult motion picture booth, an enclosed area
designed or used for the viewing by one (1) or more persons of motion pictures, films,
video cassettes, slides or other visual materials which have as their primary or
dominant theme matters depicting, illustrating or relating to specified sexual
activities or specified anatomical areas.
(7) Adult Motion Picture Theatre or Driue-in: An enclosed building or a portion or part of
an enclosed building or open-air establishment designed to permit viewing by
patrons for any form of consideration films, video or other visual material in which
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2.00.00
the primary or dominant theme of the material presented is distinguished or
characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or related to "specified
sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas," as defined below,
(8) Adult Theatre: A theatre, concert hall, auditorium or similar establishment which
features persons who appear in a state of nudity or live performances which have as
their primary or dominant theme the depicting or describing of "specified anatomical
areas" or by "specified sexual activities".
The determination as to whether an establishment constitutes an adult establishment, as
herein defined, and shall be based upon reasonable cause. Reasonable cause may be
established through visual observation of the stock, review of financial records, consideration
of the nature of the stock which does not constitute adult materials or such other means
which establishes a reasonable likelihood that the establishment constitutes an adult
establishment. Once a preliminary determination has been made that an establishment
constitutes an adult establishment, the owner of such establishment shall be notified of
such determination and given the opportunity to provide financial or business records, or
such other materials as would indicate whether or not the establishment constitutes an
adult establishment, as herein defined. A final determination shall not be made until the
owner has been given the opportunity to provide such materials.
Advertising Structure: A sign or sign structure erected or intended for advertising
purposes, with or without an advertisement displayed thereon, situated upon or attached to
real property.
Aggrieved or Adversely Affected Person: Any person or local government which will suffer
an adverse effect to an interest protected or furthered by the St. Lucie County Comprehensive
Plan, including interests related to health and safety, police and fire protection systems,
densities or intensities of development, transportation facilities, health care facilities,
equipment or services, or environmental or natural resources. The alleged adverse effect
may be shared in common with other members of the community at large, but shall exceed
in degree the general interest in common good shared by all persons.
Agricultural Laborer: Any person employed in hand labor operations in planting,
cultivation, or harvesting agricultural crops.
Agricultural Labor Housing: One (1) or more buildings constructed and established as
living quarters for seasonal or migrant agricultural laborers permitted by the Florida
Department of Health as a migrant labor camp.
Agricultural Land: Land with soil, climate, water and topography so interrelated that, if
prudently managed to protect its natural qualities, is favorable for the production of adapted
crops.
Alley: A right-of-way privately or publicly owned, primarily for service access to the back
or sides of properties.
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Alteration of a Watercourse: A dam, impoundment, channel relocation, change in channel
alignment, channelization, or change in cross-sectional area of the channel or the channel
capacity, or any other form of modification which may alter, impede, retard or change the
direction and/or velocity of the riverine flow of water during conditions of the base flood.
Amateur Radio Antenna: An antenna used to engage in amateur radio communications
utilized by a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensed amateur radio operator.
Animated Sign: A sign that depicts action or motion or changes color through electrical or
mechanical means; an animated sign differs from a flashing sign in that it uses movement to
create a special effect or scene.
Antenna: A transmitting and/or receiving device mounted on a tower, building or structure
and used in telecommunications personal wireless services that radiates or captures
electromagnetic waves, digital signal, analog signals, and radio frequencies, directional
antennas such as panel and microwave dish antennas, and omni -directional antennas such
as whips but excluding small wireless facilities as defined in the St. Lucie County
Communications Rights -of -Way Ordinance, Chapter 44, Article I of the Code of Ordinances,
radar antennas, amateur radio antennas, and satellite earth stations.
Appeal: As used in Section 6.05.00, Floodplain Management, a request for a review of the
Floodplain Administrator's interpretation of any provision of this ordinance.
Applicant [owner, licensed contractor, and l or lessee]. For purposes of Section 7.10.23, a
person or entity with property owner authorization, with an application before the County
for a permit for a wireless service facility.
Appropriately Treat: For the purposes of Section 7.10.34 only, this term means to treat
Leachate in a domestic or industrial wastewater treatment facility that has obtained or will
obtain all of the permits and approvals from the Florida Department of Environmental
Protection that are needed to receive and treat the Leachate.
Aquatic Preserve: Includes the North Fork of the St. Lucie River and the Indian River
Lagoon.
Aquifer: A geologic formation, group of formations, or part of a formation (stratum) that is
capable of yielding potentially useable quantities of water from wells or springs.
Area of Shallow Flooding: A designated AO or VO Zone on a community's Flood Insurance
Rate Map (FIRM) with base flood depths from one (1) to three (3) feet where a clearly defined
channel does not exist, where the path of flooding is unpredictable and indeterminate, and
where velocity flow may be evident.
Area of Special Flood Hazard: Refers to the land in the floodplain that is subject to a one
percent (1%) or greater chance of flooding in any given year. The area may be designated on
the Flood Hazard Boundary Map (FHBM) as Zone A, AO, AH, Al—A30, AE, A99, VO or
V1—V30, VE or V.
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Arterial Road or Street: A route providing service that is relatively continuous and of a
relatively high traffic volume, long average trip length, and high operating speed. In
addition, every United States numbered highway is an arterial road.
Artificial Light Source(s): Any source of light emanating from a manmade device
including, but not limited to incandescent mercury vapor, metal halide or sodium lamps,
spotlights, street lights, vehicular lights, construction or security lights.
ASCE 24: A standard titled Flood Resistant Design and Construction that is referenced by
the Florida Building Code. ASCE 24 is developed and published by the American Society of
Civil Engineers, Reston, VA.
Assessed Value: An annual determination of the just or fair market value of property upon
which St. Lucie County ad valorem taxes are levied.
Atlantic Ocean: The body of water abutting the eastern shoreline of Hutchinson Island.
Awning: See "Canopy".
Awning Sign: See "Canopy Sign".
Backlit Sign: A sign illuminated by a light source which is placed behind, and shines
through, the sign face.
Back -Siphonage Backflow Preventers: A device or combination of devices for preventing
back -siphonage in a water supply line. They shall be installed, when required, in agreement
with and under the supervision of the supplier of water or his/her designated representative
(plumbing inspector, etc.) at the consumer's meter, at the property line of the consumer when
a meter is not used, or at a location designated by the supplier or his/her designated
representative.
Backyard Composting: The composting of organic solid waste, such as grass clippings,
leaves, or food waste, generated by the owner or occupant of a single or multi -family
residential dwelling unit, in cases where the composting occurs at that dwelling unit.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, backyard composting does not include any process that
involves the composting of biosolids or other forms of sewage sludge.
Banner or Banner Sign: Any sign on which a message, idea, or graphic design is expressed
on cloth, bunting, plastic, paper, or similar non -rigid material, supported at two (2) or more
edges or four (4) corners. Banner signs do not include flags.
Base Building Line: A line established by Section 7.04.04 of this Code.
Base Flood: A flood having a one percent (1%) chance of being equaled or exceeded in any
given year. [Also defined in FBC, B, Section 202.1 The base flood is commonly referred to as
the "100 -year flood" or the "1 -percent -annual chance flood."
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Base Flood Elevation: The elevation of the base flood, including wave height, relative to
the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD), North American Vertical Datum (NAVD) or
other datum specified on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). [Also defined in FBC, B,
Section 202.1
Base Station: A structure or equipment at a fixed location that enables FCC -licensed or
authorized wireless communications between user equipment and a communications
network. To the extent not inconsistent with applicable law, this term base station does not
include a utility pole for the collocation of a small wireless facility in the County's public
rights-of-way pursuant to the St. Lucie County Communications Rights -of -Way Ordinance,
Chapter 44, Article I, of the County Code. The term base station does not encompass a tower
as defined herein or any equipment associated with a tower. Base station includes but is not
limited to:
(1) Equipment associated with wireless communications services such as private,
broadcast, and public safety services, as well as unlicensed wireless services and
fixed wireless services such as microwave backhaul;
(2) Radio transceivers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cable, regular and backup power
supplies, and comparable equipment, regardless of technological configuration
(including distributed antenna systems ("DAS") and small-cell networks); and
(3) Any structure other than a tower that, at the time the relevant application is filed
with County under this article, supports or houses equipment described in
subparagraphs (1), (2) above, and that has been reviewed and approved under the
applicable zoning or siting process, or under another state or local regulatory review
process, even if the structure was not built for the sole or primary purpose of
providing such support. Base station does not include any structure that, at the time
the relevant application is filed under this section, does not support or house
equipment described in [subsection] (1) or (2) of this section [definition].
Basement: The portion of a building having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on all
sides. [Also defined in FBC, B, Section 202; see "Basement (for flood loads)".]
Beach: The zone of unconsolidated material that extends landward from the mean low
water line to the place where there is marked change in material or physiological form, or to
the line of permanent vegetation (usually the effective limit of storm waves). Unless
otherwise specified, the seaward limit of a beach is the mean low water line.
Beach or Shoreline Access Point or Access: Any walkway or ramp through or over the
estuarine shoreline area or beach -dune shoreline area used for the purpose of gaining access
to the beach or shoreline.
Beach -Dune Shoreline Area: Is a broader concept than that covered by the use of the words
"beach" and "dune" independently and, at a minimum, consists of the whole beach -dune
shoreline area.
Bench Sign: A sign attached to, or part of, a bench.
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Best Management Practice: A practice or combination of practices that are the most
effective, practical means of preventing or reducing the amount of pollution generated by the
project to a level compatible with Florida Water Quality Standards found in Chapter 17-3,
Florida Administrative Code, or in the case of an Outstanding Florida Waters, those
standards prescribed in Chapter 17-4 F.A.C.
Bicycle: A vehicle propelled by human power upon which any person or persons may ride
having two (2) tandem wheels, except scooters and similar devices. For the purposes of this
Code bicycle shall also include unicycles, tricycles and quadracycles.
Bike Lane: A portion of roadway (four (4) to five (5) feet), which has been designated by
signing and pavement markings for the preferential or exclusive use by bicyclists.
Bikepath: That portion of rights-of-way improved, designed, or ordinarily used for bicycle
traffic.
Bike Ways: Any road, path, or way that in some manner is specifically designated as open
to bicycle travel, regardless of whether such facility is designated for the exclusive use of
bicycles or is to be shared with other transportation modes.
Billboard: A sign that is not otherwise allowable within a particular zoning district under
Section 9.01.01 of this Code.
Biosolids: The solid, semisolid, or liquid residue generated during the treatment of
domestic wastewater in a domestic wastewater treatment facility, formerly known as
"domestic wastewater residuals" or "residuals," and includes products and treated material
from biosolids treatment facilities and septage management facilities regulated by the
Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The term does not include the treated
effluent or reclaimed water from a domestic wastewater treatment facility, solids removed
from pump stations and lift stations, screenings and grit removed from the preliminary
treatment components of domestic wastewater treatment facilities, or ash generated during
the incineration of biosolids.
Board of Adjustment: The St. Lucie County Board of Adjustment.
Board of County Commissioners: The St. Lucie County Board of County Commissioners.
Unless otherwise stated in the text of this Code, the term 'Board" shall also mean the St.
Lucie County Board of County Commissioners.
Boarding House: Any dwelling in which more than two (2) persons are lodged on a
continuing basis and served meals for compensation.
Breakaway Wall: A wall that is not part of the structural support of the building and is
intended through its design and construction to collapse under specific lateral loading forces
without causing damage to the elevated portion of the building or the supporting foundation
system.
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Broadcasting Facility: Any telecommunications tower built primarily for the purpose of
broadcasting licensed AM, FM or television signals pursuant to 47 C.F.R. Part 73 of the FCC
rules, as it may be amended.
Buffer: An area that is established in order to protect or insulate one (1) land use from
another use.
Building: Any structure, including a roof supported by walls, designed or built for the
support, enclosure, shelter or protection of persons, animals, chattels, or property of any
kind, that is erected for permanent location on the ground. A manufactured building shall be
considered a building for the purposes of this Code. A mobile home shall not be considered
a building for the purposes of this Code. As used in Section 6.05.00, Flood Damage
Prevention, the term shall mean a structure as defined in this section.
Building Permit: Any permit for the erection, placement or construction of any building,
structure, or related building system or building system component, or mobile home, or
portion thereof.
Building -permit Review: A review for compliance with building constructions standards
adopted by the County under Chapter 553 and Chapter XIII of the County Land
Development Code and does not include a review for compliance with land development
regulations.
Building Support Structure: Any structure which supports floor, wall or column loads, and
transmits them to the foundation. The term shall include beams, grade beams, or joists, and
includes the lowest horizontal structural member exclusive of piles, columns, or footings.
Bulk: The size of buildings or structures, and their relationships to each other and to open
areas. The term is intended to include:
(1) The size of buildings or other structures;
(2) The area of the site upon which a building or structure is located, and the number of
dwelling units or rooms within such building in relation to the area of the site;
(3) The location of exterior walls of buildings or other structures; and
(4) Open areas relating to buildings or other structures and their relationship thereto.
Canopy: Any roof or other form that shelters from sunshine, rain, snow, or other forms of
precipitation, open on at least one (1) side. A canopy may be attached to a permanent
building or it may be independent structure permitted in accordance with the Florida
Building Code.
Canopy Sign: Any sign that is suspended from, attached to, or forming a part of any
canopy or awning, whether or not that canopy or awning is part of a permanent building or
structure.
Carport: A canopy, roof like structure, or shed, open on two (2) sides, three (3) sides, or four
(4) sides, whose purpose is to provide shelter for one (1) or more motor vehicles.
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Carrier: A company licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that
provides wireless services. A tower builder or owner is not a carrier unless licensed to
provide wireless services.
Cell on Wheels (COW): A temporary, transportable wireless communications facility used
to provide emergency or temporary transmission capacity.
Certificate of Capacity: A certificate approved by the Growth Management Director
pursuant to the terms of this Code that constitutes proof of adequate public facilities to serve
the proposed development.
Certificate of Capacity Exemption: A certificate approved by the Growth Management
Director pursuant to the terms of this Code evidencing a determination by the Director that
the development is exempt from the adequate public facilities requirements of this Code.
Certificate of Capacity Variance: A certificate approved by the Growth Management
Director pursuant to the terms of this Code evidencing that a variance from the strict
adequate public facilities requirements of this Code must be granted with respect to a
specific development permit so as to avoid the unconstitutional taking of property without
due process of law.
C.F.R.: Code of Federal Regulations.
Changeable -Message Sign: Any sign whose content changes more frequently than once in
any twenty -four-hour period, by any mechanical, electronic, or other automatic or remotely
controlled means, such as, but not limited to, signs that use light -emitting diodes, plasma or
liquid crystal displays, or moveable stats or louvers, to change the content of the message or
other display on the sign.
Child Care Facility: Any child care center or child care arrangement which provides child
care for more than five (5) children unrelated to the operator and which receives a payment,
fee, or grant for any of the children receiving care, wherever operated, and whether or not
operated for profit. The following are not included: public schools and nonpublic schools and
their integral programs; summer camps having children in fulltime residence; summer day
camps; and Bible Schools normally conducted during vacation periods.
Church: See Religious Facility.
Closure: As used in Section 6.03.00, Wellfield Protection, means inactivity of business for
a period of ninety (90) days or longer.
Closure Permit: The permit required by activities possessing operating permits in
wellfield zones one or two, prior to closure of property or business.
Co -Generation Facility: A place where there is the combined production of two (2) or more
forms of energy which usually involves the capture of waste heat for use in another process.
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Coastal Area: Relates to the area which encompasses water and submerged lands of the
Atlantic Ocean and Indian River Lagoon, shorelines adjacent to these waters, and all lands
on Hutchinson Island and adjacent to such occurrences where development would impact the
integrity and quality of the above.
Coastal Barrier Islands: Geological surface features above mean high water which are
completely surrounded by marine waters, that front upon the open waters of the Atlantic
Ocean and are composed of quartz sands, clays, limestone, oolites, rock, coral, coquina,
sediment or other material, including spoil disposal. Mainland areas which were separated
from the mainland by artificial channelization for the purpose of assisting marine commerce
shall not be considered coastal barrier islands.
Coastal Building Zone: As used in Section 13.00.02, Coastal Construction Code means the
area five thousand (5,000) feet landward from the coastal construction control line or the
entire coastal barrier island, whichever is less.
Coastal Construction: The carrying out of any activity within the area between State Road
AlA and the Atlantic Ocean or between the Coastal Construction Control line and the
Atlantic Ocean, whichever is greater, to modify or improve site conditions. Modification or
improvement of site conditions includes, but is not limited to, building, clearing, filling,
excavation, grading or planting of vegetation, or the making of any material change in the
size or use of any structure or the appearance of site conditions, or the placement of
equipment or material upon such sites, or any work or action which is likely to have a
material physical effect on existing shoreline conditions or natural shoreline and inlet
processes.
Coastal Construction Control Line: The line established by the State of Florida pursuant
to F.S. § 161.053, and recorded in the official records of the community, which defines that
portion of the beach -dune system subject to severe fluctuations based on a 100 -year storm
surge, storm waves or other predictable weather conditions.
Coastal High Hazard Area: A special flood hazard area extending from offshore to the
inland limit of a primary frontal dune along an open coast and any other area subject to high
velocity wave action from storms or seismic sources. Coastal high hazard areas are also
referred to as "high hazard areas subject to high velocity wave action" or "V Zones" and are
designated on Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) as Zone V1 -V30, VE, or V.
Code Enforcement Supervisor: The head of the Code Enforcement Section of the Public
Works Department.
Code Enforcement Officer: The authorized agent or employee of St. Lucie County whose
duty is to ensure compliance with the provisions of this Code.
Collector Road or Street: A route providing service that is of relatively moderate average
traffic volume, moderately average trip length, and moderately average operating speed.
Such a route also collects and distributes traffic between local roads or arterial roads.
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Collocation: For purposes of an Eligible Facilities Modification, the mounting or installa-
tion of transmission equipment on an eligible support structure for the purpose of
transmitting and/or receiving radio frequency signals for communications purposes. "Col-
location" for all other purposes, means the situation when a second or subsequent wireless
carrier use an existing structure to locate a second or subsequent antennas. The term
includes the ground, platform, or roof installation of equipment enclosures, cabinets, or
buildings, and cables, brackets, and other equipment associated with the location and
operation of the antenna.
Commercial: A commercial message on a sign is one that promotes a privately -owned
business or establishment offering a product, service, activity, or admission.
Commercial Composting Facility: A facility that uses composting techniques or technolo-
gies to process biosolids or other organic wastes, and thereby produce compost, as part of or
in association with a commercial business or other for-profit venture.
Commercial Vehicle: Every vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the
transportation of property with a gross vehicular weight of ten thousand (10,000) pounds or
more. It shall also mean any bus with a gross vehicle weight in excess of ten thousand
(10,000) pounds. It shall be presumed that any vehicle having a tax class of 40 to 44, both
inclusive, is a "commercial vehicle" as defined herein.
Common Area: A parcel of land, together with the improvements thereon, the use and
enjoyment of which are shared by the owners and occupants of the individual building sites
in the development.
Community Residential Home: A dwelling unit licensed to serve clients of the Department
of Children and Families, which provides a living environment for seven (7) to fourteen (14)
unrelated residents who operate as the functional equivalent of a family, including such
supervision and care by supportive staff as may be necessary to meet the physical, emotional
and social needs of the residents. The term "community residential home" shall include
congregate care facilities, foster homes, group care homes and child care facilities with seven
(7) to fourteen (14) residents and that otherwise meet the definitional requirements of a
community residential home.
Compost: Solid waste which has undergone biological decomposition of organic matter, has
been disinfected using composting or similar technologies, and has been stabilized to a
degree that is potentially beneficial to plant growth and that is used or sold for use as a soil
amendment, artificial top soil, growing medium amendment or other similar uses.
Composting: The process by which biological decomposition of organic solid waste is
carried out under controlled aerobic conditions, and that stabilizes the organic fraction into
a material which can easily and safely be stored, handled and used in an environmentally
acceptable manner. The presence of anaerobic zones within the composting material will not
cause the process to be classified as other than composting. "Composting" includes
processing.
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Comprehensive Plan, St. Lucie County: The St. Lucie County Comprehensive Plan,
adopted January 9, 1990.
Concurrency Test: A comparison of a proposed development's impact on public facilities
with the capacity of public facilities that are, or will be, available to serve the proposed
development no later than the time the impacts of the development occur.
Conditional Use: A use that is generally compatible with the use characteristics of a
zoning district, but that requires individual review of its location, design, potential effect on
nearby properties, and configuration in accordance with Section 11.07.00 to determine the
appropriateness of the use on any particular site in the district.
Condominium Hotel Unit: A hotel unit that may be individually owned, but whose annual
occupancy by the unit owner shall be limited and is intended to be available for short-term
occupancy when not occupied by the unit owner, as more specifically set forth in the
Supplemental Standards found in [Section] 7.10.32.
Congregate Care Facility: Any institution, building, residence, private home, or other
place, licensed by the Florida Department of Children and Families, whether operated for
profit or not, that undertakes through its ownership or management to provide for a period
exceeding twenty-four (24) hours; nursing care, personal care, or custodial care for three (3)
or more persons not related to the owner or manager by blood or marriage. A facility offering
services for fewer than three (3) persons is within the meaning of this definition if it holds
itself out to the public to be an establishment which regularly provides such services. The
definition of congregate care facility shall not include foster homes.
Consistency, Consistent With, or in Compliance: Means the compared item is in accordance
with, in agreement with, within the parameters specified by, exemplified by, compatible
with, and furthers the norm to which it is compared. If the compared item deviates or
departs in any direction or degree from the parameters of the norm, the compared item or
action is not "consistent" with the norm. The term "consistent with" means that the
compared item is not in conflict with the norm. The term "furthers" means to take action in
the direction of realizing goals, policies or objectives of the norm. For purposes of
determining the "consistency" of a development proposal with the Comprehensive Plan or
the Land Development Regulations, each of the latter "norms" shall be construed as a whole
and no specific goal, policy or objective shall be construed or applied in isolation from the
other goals, policies and objectives contained therein.
Construction: The building of, or substantial improvement to, any structure of the
clearing, filling, or excavation of any land. It shall also mean any alterations in the size or
use of any existing structure or the appearance of any land. When appropriate to the context,
"construction" refers to the act of construction or the result of construction.
Construction and Demolition Debris: means discarded materials generally considered to
be not water-soluble and nonhazardous in nature, including, but not limited to, steel, glass,
brick, concrete, asphalt roofing material, pipe, gypsum wallboard, and lumber, from the
construction or destruction of a structure as part of a construction or demolition project or
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from the renovation of a structure, and including rocks, soils, tree remains, trees, and other
vegetative matter that normally results from land clearing or land development operations
for a construction project, including such debris from construction of structures at a site
remote from the construction or demolition project site. Mixing of construction and
demolition debris with other types of solid waste will cause it to be classified as other than
construction and demolition debris. The term construction and demolition debris also
includes:
(a) Clean cardboard, paper, plastic, wood, and metal scraps from a construction project;
(b) Effective January 1, 1997, except as provided in F.S. § 403.707(13)0), unpainted,
nontreated wood scraps from facilities manufacturing materials used for construc-
tion of structures or their components and unpainted, nontreated wood pallets
provided the wood scraps and pallets are separated from other solid waste where
generated and the generator of such wood scraps or pallets implements reasonable
practices of the generating industry to minimize the co -mingling of wood scraps or
pallets with other solid waste; and
(c) De minimis amounts of other nonhazardous wastes that are generated at construc-
tion or destruction projects, provided such amounts are consistent with best
management practices of the industry.
Construction Office: A building or mobile home used on a temporary basis on the site of a
construction project, as an office for the contractor.
Contiguous: Means abutting, touching, the sharing of a common border at one (1) or more
points of intersection.
County: St. Lucie County, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, in its present form
or in any later reorganized, consolidated, or enlarged form.
County Health Director: Director of the St. Lucie County Health Department or his/her
duly authorized representative.
County Permit: Any development permit or approval required by the county including, but
not limited to, site plan approvals, subdivision approvals, and building permits.
County Road System: Consists of all collector roads in the unincorporated areas and all
extensions of such collector roads into and through any incorporated areas, all local roads in
the unincorporated areas, and all urban minor arterial roads not in the State Highway
System.
Cure Plan: A site plan submitted by an acquiring authority or property owner for a site
subject to an eminent domain action. The plan shall show proposed changes to structures or
other physical features of the remainder parcel necessary to make the remainder parcel as
compliant with the applicable Land Development Code as feasible.
Deficient Road Segment: A road segment that is operating below the adopted level of
service standard set forth in the St. Lucie County Comprehensive Plan.
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Density, Gross: The number of dwelling units located on an area of land, divided by the
entire area of the development including lots, streets, and other development associated with
the dwelling units. In calculating density, only those lands that lie above the elevation of
mean high water (MHW) shall be considered. In determining the elevations above or below
MHW, man-made changes in the topography, subsequent to the effective date of this Code
shall be ignored. If a parcel of land is divided by a public right-of-way or zoning atlas
boundary, it may, at the owner's discretion, be considered to be one (1) parcel for the purpose
of determining gross density. When computing allowable density, fractions greater than or
equal to 0.5 shall be rounded to the next higher whole number.
Density, Net: The number of dwelling units located on an area of land, divided by the area
of the lot or parcel (excluding streets and other development associated with the dwelling
units). In calculating density, only those lands that lie above the elevation of mean high
water (MHW) shall be considered. In determining the elevations above or below MHW,
man-made changes in the topography subsequent to the effective date of this ordinance shall
be ignored. When computing allowable density, fractions greater than or equal to 0.5 shall be
rounded to the next higher whole number.
DEP: The Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
Design Flood: The flood associated with the greater of the following two areas: [Also
defined in FBC, B, Section 202.1
(1) Area with a floodplain subject to a one percent (1%) or greater chance of flooding in
any year; or
(2) Area designated as a flood hazard area on the community's flood hazard map, or
otherwise legally designated.
Design Flood Elevation: The elevation of the "design flood," including wave height,
relative to the datum specified on the community's legally designated flood hazard map. In
areas designated as Zone AO, the design flood elevation shall be the elevation of the highest
existing grade of the building's perimeter plus the depth number (in feet) specified on the
flood hazard map. In areas designated as Zone AO where the depth number is not specified
on the map, the depth number shall be taken as being equal to two (2) feet. [Also defined in
FBC, B, Section 202.1
Detached Sign: See "Ground Sign".
Developed Area: That portion of a lot or parcel upon which a building, structure,
pavement, gravel, landscaping, or other improvements have been placed.
Developer: Any person, including a governmental agency, undertaking any development as
defined in this Code.
Development: The carrying out of any work to modify site conditions including, but not
limited to, building, clearing, filling, excavation, grading, or planting of vegetation; or the
making of any material change in the size or use of any structure or the appearance of site
conditions; or the placement of equipment or materials upon such site.
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Development: As used in Section 6.05.00, Floodplain Management, any man-made change
to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to, buildings or other
structures, tanks, temporary structures, temporary or permanent storage of equipment or
materials, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavations, drilling operations or any
other land disturbing activities.
Development Agreement: An agreement entered into between a local government and a
person associated with the development of land, including, but not limited to Development
Agreements pursuant to F.S. § 163.3220, or an agreement on a development order issued
pursuant to F.S. § 380.01 et seq.
Development Order: Any order granting, denying authorization, or granting with condi-
tions an application for a development permit.
Development Order, Final:
(1) Building Permit;
(2) Class A Mobile Home Permit;
(3) Conditional use approval;
(4) Mining Permit;
(5) Planned Development Final Site Plan Approval;
(6) Major Development Site Plan Approval;
(7) Minor Development Site Plan Approval;
(8) Variance;
(9) Mobile Home (Tie Down) Permit.
Development Order, Preliminary:
(1) Amendment to any Portion of the Comprehensive Plan;
(2) Planned Development Preliminary Site Plan Approval;
(3) Amendment to the Official Zoning Atlas;
(4) Development of Regional Impact—Development Order;
(5) Any other development approval other than a Final Development Order.
Development Permit: For the purposes of this Code, a development permit is that official
St. Lucie County document that authorizes the commencement of construction or land
alteration without need for further application or approval. Development permits include
but are not limited to, building permits, sign permits, mining permits, tree removal permits,
mangrove alteration permits, and wastewater and sewage compliance permits.
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Diameter at Breast Height (DBH): The standard measure of a single stemmed tree at four
and one-half (41/2) feet above grade. When a tree has grown with cluster stems at breast
height, DBH shall be equal to the sum or aggregate of the individual stems measured at four
and one-half (41/2) feet above grade.
Directional Sign: A sign, which is designed only to provide directions to promote safe
vehicular or pedestrian traffic into, out of, or within a site.
Directional Sign, Public: A directional sign erected by a governmental agency to promote
public safety, such as signs to denote the name of any thoroughfare; to point out the route to
any city, educational institution, public building, public place, historic place, hospital, or
park; to direct and regulate traffic; or to denote any railroad crossing, bridge, or other
transportation facility.
Dispensing Facility: Refers to the building or structure where low -THC cannabis or
medical cannabis, as well as cannabis delivery devices, are dispensed at retail.
Dispensing Organization: An organization approved by the state to cultivate, process,
transport, and dispense low -THC cannabis or medical cannabis.
Disposal Manifest: Document used for identifying the quantity, composition, origin,
routing including transporter and destination of hazardous waste and/or regulated substance
during its transportation from the point of generation to the points of treatment, storage,
and disposal.
Distributor: The person responsible for placing and maintaining a newsrack, the owner of
the newsrack, or the publisher of the newspaper, periodical, advertising circulars or any
other printed matter vended therein.
Dock: A boat mooring facility which has no more than ten (10) boat slips, and which does
not provide a fuel facility, sewage pump -out station, or commercial land -to -water boat hoist.
Double -Faced Sign: A sign with two (2) faces which are parallel, or in the case of a
V-shaped sign, has an interior angle which is less than sixty (60) degrees.
Drawdown: A lowering of the water table of an unconfined aquifer caused by the pumping
of groundwater by wells.
Dripline: An imaginary vertical line extending from the outermost circumference of the
branches of a tree to the ground.
Drive -Through Service: A structure in which a customer is permitted or encouraged,
either by design of physical facilities or by service or packaging, to enter into the service area
when seated in the motor vehicle.
Driveway: Any ingress or egress allowing access between a public street and abutting
property.
Dune: A mound or ridge of loose sediment usually sand -sized sediment, lying upland of the
beach, and deposited by any natural or artificial mechanism, and may also include beach
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ridge, dune ridge, etc. As used in Section 6.05.00, Flood Damage Prevention, the term shall
mean naturally occurring accumulations of sand in ridges or mounds landward of the beach.
Dune Preservation Zone: The area between the mean high water line of the Atlantic Ocean
and the western edge of the frontal dune system, as defined by vegetation and elevation. The
dune preservation zone shall have the characteristics of the beach and dune lands
environmental zone, as described in Chapter VIII, Natural Environmental Analysis, of the
St. Lucie County Barrier Island Study: Analysis of Growth Management Policy Plan
(August, 1982). Where the western edge of the frontal dune cannot be ascertained, the dune
preservation zone shall be set by reference to a management and restoration plan that has
been prepared based on natural coastal dynamics.
Dune Profile: The cross-sectional configuration of the dune.
Dune Vegetation: Vegetation that is characteristic of a dune and generally consists of these
three (3) categories:
(1) The "vine and grass zone" located immediately landward of the beach zone,
extending up the seaward face of the primary dune. Vegetation includes, but is not
limited to, Sea Oats (Uniola paniculata), Saltmeadow Cordgrass (Spartina patens),
Dune Panic Grass (Panicum amarulum), Beach Bean (Canavalia maritima), Railroad
Vine (Ipomoea pes-caprae), Morning Glories (Ipomoea spp.), Sea Rocket (Cakile
spp.), Inkberry (Scaevola plumieri), Sea Blite (Suaeda lineareis), Beach Elder (Iva
imbricata), Dune Sunflower (Helianthus debilis), Camphorweed (Hetrotheca subax-
illaris), Sea Purslane (Sesuvium portulacastrum), and Beach Croton (Coroton
punctatus).
(2) The "prickly zone" located landward from the vine and grass zone on the sloping back
edge of the primary dune and extending onto the overwash area. Vegetation includes,
but is not limited to, Spanish Bayonet (Yucca aloifolia), Saw Palmetto (Serenoa
repens), Sea Grape (Coccoloba uvifera), Prickly -Pear Cactus (Opuntia stricta),
Cocoplum (Chrysobalanus icaco), Gray Nickerbean (Caesalpinia bonduc), Bamboo
Vine (Smilax spp.), and Gopher -Apple (Licania michauxii).
(3) The "strand zone," a narrow intermittent zone landward of the prickly zone.
Vegetation includes, but is not limited to, Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens), Wax
Myrtle (Myrica cerifera), Woody Goldenrod (Solidago pauciflosculosa, Myrtle Oak
(Quercus myrtifolia), Chapman's Oak (Quercus chapmanii), and Sea Myrtle (Baccha-
ris halimifolia var. angustior).
Dwelling: Any building or structure or portion thereof that is designed for or used for
residential purposes.
Dwelling, Detached Single -Family: An individual dwelling unit located in a building that
is not physically connected to any other dwelling unit and that is designed to be occupied by
no more than one (1) family, living as a separate household unit. The Board of County
Commissioners shall determine that a Class A Mobile Home meets the definition of a
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detached single-family dwelling unit upon the demonstration by the applicant that the
exterior dimensions, the exterior walls, and the roof of the Class A Mobile Home is similar to
that of a detached single-family dwelling unit.
Dwelling, Multiple -Family: A building containing three (3) or more dwelling units,
designed to be occupied by three (3) or more families living independently of each other, each
as a separate housekeeping unit.
Dwelling, Two -Family: A building containing two (2) dwelling units, designed to be
occupied by not more than two (2) families living independently of each other, each as a
separate housekeeping unit.
Dwelling Unit: A self-sufficient dwelling that is designed for or used as a residence by a
single housekeeping unit.
Easement: A right given by an owner of land to another person for specific limited use of
that land.
Elevated Building: A nonbasement building built to have the lowest floor elevated above
the ground level by foundation walls, pilings, columns, posts, piers or shear walls.
Eligible Facilities Modification: Any request for modification of an existing tower or base
station that does not result in a substantial change in the physical dimensions of such tower
or base station, involving:
Collocation of new transmission equipment;
Removal of transmission equipment; or
Replacement of transmission equipment.
Eligible Facilities Modification Application: A written document submitted to the County
pursuant to this article for review and approval of a proposed eligible facilities modification.
Eligible Facilities Modification Permit: A written document issued by the County
pursuant to this article, approving an eligible facilities modification application.
Eligible Support Structure: Any tower or base station as defined in this section, provided
that it is existing at the time the relevant application is filed with the County under this
article.
Eminent Domain Action: A series of actions taken by an acquiring authority to obtain an
interest in or title to all or some part of privately held real property for a public use. This
term shall include voluntary and involuntary conveyance under the threat of condemnation,
taking or expropriation.
Eminent Domain Waiver: Authorization from St. Lucie County for the continued use and
enjoyment of a remainder parcel subsequent to an eminent domain action. An eminent
domain waiver shall not be issued where the remainder parcel and existing structures
conform with the applicable zoning district.
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Enclosed Building: For the purposes of Section 7.10.34 only, this term means a building or
structure that satisfies all of the criteria set forth in Section 7.10.34 of the Code concerning
an enclosed building.
Encroachment: The placement of fill, excavation, buildings, permanent structures or other
development into a flood hazard area which may impede or alter the flow capacity of riverine
flood hazard areas.
Environmentally Sensitive Resources or Habitats: Those resources or habitats that
include, but are not limited to, wetlands, mangroves, deepwater habitats, outstanding
Florida waters, class II waters, class III waters, and protected species.
EPA: The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Equipment Building: The cabinets, shelter, building or other such structure which
contains the electronic equipment used in the operation of the antenna. Unless, the context
indicates otherwise, the term includes generators, generator fuel supplies, cable connections
and supports electrical panels and similar accessory components.
Equipment Shed: A structure erected on a construction site to shelter equipment and tools
used in construction activities on that specific construction site.
Essential Services: Those services provided by the County and other governmental
entities that directly relate to the health and safety of its residents, including fire, police and
rescue.
Essential Utility Service Facilities: Small scale infrastructure improvements located
outside transportation and utility rights-of-way that support the provision of public facilities
and services and are required to be located in or near the neighborhood where the service is
provided, including improvements that support the transmission or distribution systems of
water, sanitary or storm sewage, cable, gas, electricity, and public safety, including poles,
wires, mains, hydrants, drains, sewer lift stations, pipes, conduits, police or fire call boxes,
warning sirens, bus stops, stormwater retention or detention facilities, chloramine injection
station, potable water booster station and other similar equipment necessary for the
furnishing of adequate public service.
Estuarine Shoreline Area: Is the area between the mean high water line of the Indian
River Lagoon and the landward extent of surface waters of the state (as defined in
accordance with Section 17-4.022, Florida Administrative Code, and F.S. §§ 403.817 and
403.913).
Excavation: Any mechanical or manual removal of rock, consolidated or unconsolidated
soil material, sand, or vegetation. "Excavation" includes, but is not limited to, dredging,
draglining, bulldozing, scraping, digging, scooping, or hollowing out.
Existing: For purposes of an Eligible Facilities Modification, a constructed tower or base
station that has been reviewed or approved under the applicable zoning or siting process of
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the County, or under another state or local regulatory review process, provided that a tower
that has not been reviewed and approved because it was not in a zoned area when it was
built, but was lawfully constructed, is existing for purposes of this definition.
Existing Building and Existing Structure: Any buildings and structures for which the
"start of construction" commenced before August 13, 1981. [Also defined in FBC, B, Section
202.1
Existing Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision: A manufactured home park or
subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the
manufactured homes are to be affixed (including, at a minimum, the installation of utilities,
the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is
completed before August 13, 1981.
Existing Non -Residential Activity: As used in Section 6.03.00, Wellfield Protection, means:
(1) Non-residential activities existing as of the effective date of this Code which have
received site plan approval, subdivision approval or similar final development order
approval, or
(2) Non-residential activities existing as of the effective date of this Code which have
received zoning compliance, occupational license, or similar forms of annual develop-
ment approval, and which do not require a final development order. This term shall
include renewal of annual development approvals, provided that there are no
expansions, modifications or alterations that would increase the use, handling,
production or storage of Regulated Substances in Wellfield Zones one and two.
Existing Structure: As used in Section 7.10.23, means a structure that exists at the time
an application for permission to place antennas on a structure is filed with the County. The
term includes any structure that can structurally support the attachment of antennas in
compliance with applicable codes.
Exotic Vegetation: Non-native vegetation that is considered a nuisance, invasive, or a pest.
Exotic vegetation includes, but is not limited to, Brazilian pepper (Schinos terebinthis folios),
Australian Pine (Casuarina equisetifolia), and Melaleuca (Melaleuca quinquenervia).
Expansion to an Existing Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision: The preparation of
additional sites by the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the
manufactured homes are to be affixed (including the installation of utilities, the construction
of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads).
Externally Illuminated Sign: A sign where the fixed source of illumination is reflected off
the surface of the sign. A sign utilizing exposed neon lighting, or otherwise meeting the
definition of an internally illuminated sign, shall not be considered an externally illuminated
sign.
FAA: The Federal Aviation Administration.
Facade: See "Wall Face".
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Facilities for Serious and Habitual Juvenile Offenders: Facilities for the detention of
juveniles as defined under F.S. § 39.01(46)(a).
Fall Radius: The calculated distance measured from the center of the base of a tower
which defines the maximum circular area into which the tower and any further distance in
which any part of a tower may fall in case of structural failure or collapse.
Family: One (1) or more persons occupying a single housekeeping unit, provided that
unless all members are related by blood, legal adoption, or marriage, no such family shall
contain over six (6) persons, and provided further that such family may include gratuitous
guests and domestic servants.
Family Day Care Home: An occupied residence in which child care is regularly provided
for no more than five (5) preschool children from more than one (1) unrelated family and
which receives a payment, fee, or grant for any of the children receiving care, whether or not
operated for profit. The maximum number of five (5) preschool children includes preschool
children living in the home and preschool children received for day care who are not related
to the resident caregiver. Elementary school siblings of the preschool children received for
day care may also be cared for outside of school hours provided the total number of children,
including the caregiver's own and those related to the caregiver, does not exceed ten (10).
Family Residential Home: A dwelling unit licensed to serve clients of the Department of
Children and Families, which provides a living environment for six (6) or fewer unrelated
residents who operate as the functional equivalent of a family, including such supervision
and care by supportive staff as may be necessary to meet the physical, emotional and social
needs of the residents. The term "family residential home" shall include congregate care
facilities, foster homes, group care homes and child care facilities with six (6) or fewer
residents and that otherwise meet the definitional requirements of a family day care home.
FCC: The Federal Communications Commission.
FDEP: The Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): The federal agency that, in addition to
carrying out other functions, administers the National Flood Insurance Program.
FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Flag: Any sign, color, or graphic design applied to cloth, plastic, canvas, or other like
material, attached to a pole, staff, cord, or rope and anchored only along one (1) edge or two
(2) corners.
Flag Lot: A Flag Lot is any residential or commercial division of property that is shaped
in the general configuration depicted in Figure 2.8. No more than two (2) Flag Lots shall be
contiguous to each other and the depth of the staff shall not exceed five (5) times the
minimum road frontage requirement for the zoning district in which the flag lot is located,
except that a one (1) time division of a residential or agriculturally zoned parcel or lot of
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record as of the effective date of this Code, that exceeds the maximum flag staff depth
restriction shall be approved provided that the lot split criteria of Section 11.03.04 and all
other applicable provisions of this Code are met.
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Flashing Sign: Any sign utilizing a continually intermittent or sequential flashing light
source.
Flat Sign: See "Wall Sign".
Flood or Flooding: A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of
normally dry land from: [Also defined in FBC, B, Section 202.1
(1) The overflow of inland or tidal waters;
(2) The unusual and rapid accumulation of runoff of surface waters from any source.
Flood Damage -Resistant Materials: Any construction material capable of withstanding
direct and prolonged contact with floodwaters without sustaining any damage that requires
more than cosmetic repair. [Also defined in FBC, B, Section 202.1
Flood Hazard Area: The greater of the following two (2) areas: [Also defined in FBC, B,
Section 202.1
(1) The area within a floodplain subject to a one percent (1%) or greater chance of
flooding in any year.
(2) The area designated as a flood hazard area on the community's flood hazard map, or
otherwise legally designated.
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Flood Hazard Boundary Map (FHBM): An official map of a community, issued by the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, where the boundaries of the areas of special flood
hazard have been defined.
Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM): The official map of the community on which the
Federal Emergency Management Agency has delineated both special flood hazard areas and
the risk premium zones applicable to the community. [Also defined in FBC, B, Section 202.1
Flood Insurance Study (FIS): The official report provided by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency that contains the Flood Insurance Rate Map, the Flood Boundary and
Floodway Map (if applicable), the water surface elevations of the base flood, and supporting
technical data. [Also defined in FBC, B, Section 202.1
Floodplain Administrator: The office or position designated and charged with the
administration and enforcement of this ordinance (may be referred to as the Floodplain
Manager).
Floodplain Development Permit or Approval: An official document or certificate issued by
the community, or other evidence of approval or concurrence, which authorizes performance
of specific development activities that are located in flood hazard areas and that are
determined to be compliant with this ordinance.
Floodproofing: Any combination of structural and non-structural additions, changes, or
adjustments to structures, which reduce or eliminate flood damage to real estate or improved
real property, water and sanitary facilities, structures and their contents.
Floodway: The channel of a river or other riverine watercourse and the adjacent land
areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively
increasing the water surface elevation more than one (1) foot. [Also defined in FBC, B,
Section 202.1
Floodway Encroachment Analysis: An engineering analysis of the impact that a proposed
encroachment into a floodway is expected to have on the floodway boundaries and base flood
elevations; the evaluation shall be prepared by a qualified Florida licensed engineer using
standard engineering methods and models.
Florida Building Code: The family of codes adopted by the Florida Building Commission,
including: Florida Building Code, Building; Florida Building Code, Residential; Florida
Building Code, Existing Building; Florida Building Code, Mechanical; Florida Building Code,
Plumbing; Florida Building Code, Fuel Gas.
Foster Home: A facility licensed by the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative
Services, whether operated for profit or not, providing housing and collective care and
sustenance for no more than three (3) adults or children on a twenty-four (24) hour basis who
are unrelated by blood, adoption, or marriage.
Freestanding Sign: See "Ground Sign".
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Frontage: The length of a lot that fronts on a public street or that fronts on a private street
having been constructed in conformance with the St. Lucie County Standard Specifications
for Public Works Construction.
Frontal Dune: Is the first natural or manmade mound or bluff of sand which is located
landward of the beach and which has sufficient vegetation, height, continuity, and
configuration to offer protective value.
Functionally Dependent Use: A use which cannot perform its intended purpose unless it is
located or carried out in close proximity to water, including only docking facilities, port
facilities that are necessary for the loading and unloading of cargo or passengers, and ship
building and ship repair facilities; the term does not include long-term storage or related
manufacturing facilities.
Future Wellfield: Public water supply well(s) that are designated as future wellfields upon
the issuance of a South Florida Water Management District Individual Water Use Permit
and upon notification to the Department of specific locations.
Garage Sale: The offering for sale of ten (10) or more items of used personal property from
any residential real property.
Governmental Agency:
(1) The United States or any department, commission, agency, or other instrumentality
thereof;
(2) The State of Florida or any department, commission, agency, or instrumentality
thereof,
(3) Any county or municipality; or
(4) Any school board or other special district.
Grade, Natural: The elevation of the ground surface, in its natural conditions, prior to any
man made alteration resulting in an increase or decrease in elevation relative to Mean Sea
Level (MSL).
Grade, Finished: The elevation of the finished surface of the ground adjacent to the
exterior wall(s) of a building or structure.
Ground Cover: Low growing plants planted in such a manner as to form a continuous
cover over the ground.
Ground -Level Barrier: Any natural or artificial structure rising above the ground which
prevents beachfront lighting from shining directly onto the beach -dune system.
Ground Sign: Any sign that is permanently affixed to the ground, either flush or on poles,
and not attached to an adjoining building. Ground signs include "pole signs," "monument
signs," "freestanding signs," and "detached signs."
Groundwater: Water beneath the surface of the ground, whether or not it is flowing
through known and definite channels.
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Group Care Home: A facility or dwelling unit licensed by the Florida Department of
Children and Families housing persons unrelated by blood, adoption, or marriage, and
operating as a single housekeeping unit under a common housekeeping management plan
based on an internally structured relationship providing organization.
Growth Management Director: The head of the Department of Community Development,
who shall be appointed to serve at the pleasure of the County Administrator.
Grubbing: The removal of vegetation from land by means of digging, raking, dragging or
otherwise disturbing the roots of vegetation and the soil in which such roots are located.
Guyed Tower: A telecommunications tower that is supported in whole or in part by guy
wires and ground anchors.
Height: The vertical distance between the minimum finished grade and the highest
finished main roof surface in the case of flat roofs or shed roofs, the deck line of a mansard
roof and the average distance between the eaves and the ridge of sloped roof with a pitch
greater than a 4:12 ratio. For the purpose of this Code, minimum finished grade shall be that
elevation, for both residential and nonresidential uses, required to meet minimum flood
protection regulations. For the purposes of this Code, roof mounted solar energy panels are
exempt from the building height limitations.
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Highest Adjacent Grade: The highest natural elevation of the ground surface prior to
construction next to the proposed walls or foundation of a structure.
Historic Building, Resource, Structure, Site, Object, or District: When used in Section in
7.10.23, means any building, resource, structure, site, object, or district that has been
officially designated as a historic building, historic resource, historic structure, historic site,
historic object, or historic district through a federal, state or local designation program.
Historic Structure: As used in Section 6.05.00, Floodplain Management, any structure
that is determined eligible for the exception to the flood hazard area requirements of the
Florida Building Code, Existing Building, Chapter 12 Historic Buildings.
Historic Tree: A tree which has been determined to be of notable historic interest and
value to St. Lucie County because of its location or historic association with the community
and which has been so designated by the Board of County Commissioners in the official
record books of the county following the procedures set out in Section 4.11.00.
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Historic Structure or Site: Any structure or site or archaeological site that is:
(1) Listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places (a listing maintained
by the U.S. Department of Interior) or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of
the Interior as meeting the requirements for individual listing on the National
Register;
(2) Certified or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as contributing
to the historical significance of a registered historic district or preliminarily
determined by the Secretary to qualify as a registered historic district;
(3) Individually listed on a state register of historic places in states with historic
preservation programs which have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior; or
(4) Individually listed on a local inventory of historic resources per the procedures in
Section 4.11.00.
Home Occupation: A business, profession, occupation, or trade conducted within a
residential building for gain or support by a resident of the dwelling that is incidental and
secondary to the residential use of the building and does not change the essential residential
character of the use.
Hospital: Any building housing a medical institution designed, equipped, and staffed to
receive two (2) or more persons for diagnosis, treatment, and other health services under the
supervision of a medical doctor for periods continuing twenty-four (24) hours of a day.
Hotel l Motel: A building in which lodging is provided or offered to the public for
compensation, generally with occupancies of less than four (4) weeks, provided however, that
the foregoing limitation on occupancy shall not apply to condominium hotel units.
HRS: The Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services.
Illuminated Sign: Any sign designed to emit artificial light or designed to reflect light
from one (1) or more sources of artificial light.
Impermeable Surface: Any material applied to the surface of land that inhibits the natural
infiltration or passage of water into the ground.
In Kind: The creation or enhancement of a wetland with vegetation and functions as those
of an identified wetland.
Indian River Lagoon: The estuarine body of water including creeks, embayments, coves
and other water designations abutting the western shoreline of Hutchinson Island.
Industrial Equipment: Farm tractors, backhoes, bulldozers, draglines, cranes, derricks,
heavy earthmoving equipment normally used in farming, excavation and/or heavy construc-
tion activities.
Industrial Wastewater: Wastewater not otherwise defined as domestic wastewater (F.A.C.
Chapter 17-6.030), including the runoff and leachate from areas that receive pollutants
associated with industrial or commercial storage, handling, or processing.
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Inspect or Inspection: Field surveys that are conducted by qualified personnel.
Institutional Residential Home: A dwelling unit licensed to serve clients of the Depart-
ment of Children and Families, which provides a living environment for more than fourteen
(14) unrelated residents who operate as the functional equivalent of a family, including such
supervision and care by supportive staff as may be necessary to meet the physical, emotional
and social needs of the residents. The term "institutional residential home" shall include
congregate care facilities, foster homes, group care homes and child care facilities with more
than fourteen (14) residents and that otherwise meet the definitional requirements of
institutional residential home.
Interference or Interfere: The impairment of transmission or reception of any desired
communications or radio frequencies.
Internally Illuminated Sign: A sign where the source of illumination is located inside the
sign face and light emanates through the message of the sign. Also a "backlit sign." A sign
utilizing exposed neon lighting shall be considered an internally illuminated sign.
Intertidal Areas: Those areas between mean low water and mean high water.
Jurisdictional Wetland: Any wetland within County jurisdiction as set forth in Section
6.02.03(B).
Kennel: An establishment for the breeding, boarding, or shelter of dogs and/or cats.
Lake Okeechobee Watershed: Lake Okeechobee, its tributaries, and the area within which
surface water flow is directed or drains, naturally or by constructed works, to the lake or its
tributaries.
Land: The earth, water, and air above or on the surface, including any improvement or
structure customarily regarded as land.
Land Clearing Debris: Uprooted or cleared vegetation resulting from a land clearing
operation.
Land Clearing Operation: The uprooting or clearing of vegetation in connection with
construction for buildings and rights-of-way, residential or industrial development, mineral
operations, or the clearing of vegetation to enhance property value and aesthetics. The
removal and destruction of shade trees due to storm or insect damage is included as a land
clearing operation.
Land Clearing and Yard Trash Recycling Operation: Those businesses that are engaged in
the recycling and processing of land clearing and yard trash debris only and as may be
authorized as a specific Conditional Use under Section 7.10.12(C) of this Code, Land
Clearing and Yard Trash Recycling Operations shall not include, or apply to, the on-site
disposal of land clearing and yard trash debris generated from land clearing activities on
that property, provided that any such on-site disposal is not in conflict with any applicable
federal, state or local regulations.
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Land Development Regulations: Any ordinance enacted by the County for the regulation of
any aspect of development, including zoning, subdivisions, landscaping, tree protection, or
signs, the County's comprehensive plan, or any other ordinance concerning any aspect of the
development of land. The term does not include any building construction standard adopted
under and in compliance with Chapter 553.
Land Use: The development, activity, or use that has occurred on the land, or the
development that is proposed by a developer on the land.
Lateral Limbs or Other Lateral Branches: Limbs or other branches situated on or coming
from the side of the main trunk(s) of a tree.
Lattice Tower: A telecommunications tower that is constructed to be self-supporting by
lattice type supports and without the use of guy wires or other supports.
Leachate: Any liquid that has come into contact with, passed through, or emerged from
biosolids, yard trash, solid waste, any other organic material used in composting operations,
partially treated compost (e.g., material that is curing), or fully treated compost, as more
fully described in Section 7.10.34(D)(4). "Leachate" includes all soluble, suspended, and
miscible materials in the liquid.
Letter of Map Change (LOMC): An official determination issued by FEMA that amends or
revises an effective Flood Insurance Rate Map or Flood Insurance Study. Letters of Map
Change include:
Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA): An amendment based on technical data showing
that a property was incorrectly included in a designated special flood hazard area. A
LOMA amends the current effective Flood Insurance Rate Map and establishes that a
specific property, portion of a property, or structure is not located in a special flood hazard
area.
Letter of Map Revision (LOMR): A revision based on technical data that may show
changes to flood zones, flood elevations, special flood hazard area boundaries and floodway
delineations, and other planimetric features.
Letter of Map Revision Based on Fill (LOMR-F): A determination that a structure or
parcel of land has been elevated by fill above the base flood elevation and is, therefore, no
longer located within the special flood hazard area. In order to qualify for this
determination, the fill must have been permitted and placed in accordance with the
community's floodplain management regulations.
Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR): A formal review and comment as to
whether a proposed flood protection project or other project complies with the minimum
NFIP requirements for such projects with respect to delineation of special flood hazard
areas. A CLOMR does not revise the effective Flood Insurance Rate Map or Flood
Insurance Study; upon submission and approval of certified as -built documentation, a
Letter of Map Revision may be issued by FEMA to revise the effective FIRM.
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Level of Service: An indicator of the extent or degree of service provided by a public facility
and related to the operational characteristics of the public facility.
Licensed Engineer: A person who satisfies the requirements of F.S. § 471.003.
Light -Duty Truck: As used in Section 6.05.00, Floodplain Management, as defined in 40
C.F.R. 86.082-2, any motor vehicle rated at eight thousand five hundred (8,500) pounds
Gross Vehicular Weight Rating or less which has a vehicular curb weight of six thousand
(6,000) pounds or less and which has a basic vehicle frontal area of forty-five (45) square feet
or less, which is:
(1) Designed primarily for purposes of transportation of property or is a derivation of
such a vehicle; or
(2) Designed primarily for transportation of persons and has a capacity of more than
twelve (12) persons; or
(3) Available with special features enabling off-street or off-highway operation and use.
Local Road or Street: A route providing service which is of relatively low average traffic
volume, short average trip length or minimal through -traffic involvements and high land
access for abutting property.
Lot: A parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by a use that includes or will
include at least one (1) structure together with any accessory structure, yard, open space,
buffer area, or parking spaces required by this Code.
Lot, Corner: A lot situated at the junction of two (2) or more public rights-of-way.
Lot Coverage: The total horizontal ground area of a lot covered by all buildings or
structures on the lot not open to the sky.
Lot, Depth of.• The average horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot
line.
Lot Line: The boundary of a lot.
Lot of Record: As used in this Code, a lot of record shall mean:
(1) Any contiguous quantity of land that is part of an approved subdivision recorded in
the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court; or
(2) Any contiguous quantity of land which is capable of being described with such
definitiveness that its location and boundaries are established, and which has been
so recorded in the public records in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court prior
to January 9, 1990, unless otherwise considered to be a nonconforming lot of record
as described in Section 10.00.04 of this Code; or
(3) Any contiguous quantity of land which is the subject of an agreement for deed or
other instrument of conveyance properly executed prior to January 9, 1990, and
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which describes the parcel with such definitiveness that its location and boundaries
are established and recognized by Florida Law, unless otherwise considered to be a
nonconforming lot of record as described in Section 10.00.04 of this Code.
Lot Split: The division of land into two (2) contiguous lots or parcels without involving the
establishment of a new street.
Lot, Platted: A lot platted in accordance with St. Lucie County after the effective date of
this Code.
Lot, Width of. The distance between side lot lines. If the side lot lines are parallel, this
distance is measured along a perpendicular to the side lot lines. If the side lot lines are not
parallel, this distance is measured along a line drawn such that its intersections with the
side lot lines form equal angles.
Low -Tetrahydrocannabinol Cannabis or Low -THC Cannabis: A plant of the genus
cannabis, the dried flowers of which contain 0.8 percent or less of tetrahydrocannabinol and
more than ten percent (10%) of cannabidiol weight for weight; the seeds thereof; the resin
extracted from any part of such plant; or any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative,
mixture, or preparation of such plant or its seeds or resin that is dispensed only from a
dispensing organization.
Lowest Floor: As used in Section 6.05.00, Floodplain Management, the lowest floor of the
lowest enclosed area of a building or structure, including basement, but excluding any
unfinished or flood -resistant enclosure, other than a basement, usable solely for vehicle
parking, building access or limited storage provided that such enclosure is not built so as to
render the structure in violation of the non -elevation requirements of the Florida Building
Code or ASCE 24. [Also defined in FBC, B, Section 202.]
Machinery, Heauy: Trucks, mechanical land clearing, earth moving, or earth working
equipment with a gross weight in excess of five thousand (5,000) pounds. For the purposes of
this Code, all machinery that utilizes steel tracks for traction shall be considered heavy
machinery.
Maintenance: The action taken to restore or preserve the functional intent of any facility
or system; normal custodial work needed to sustain original plans or permits.
Major Arterial Road: A roadway primarily focusing on carrying through traffic. Major
arterials provide service that is relatively continuous, high in volume, of long trip length,
and high operating speed.
Major Collector Street or Road: A roadway emphasizing traffic distribution between
arterial roadways and roadways of a lower hierarchy. A major collector provides for services
that are moderate in length, volume and speed.
Major Structure: As used in Section 13.00.02, Coastal Construction Code, includes, but is
not limited to, residential buildings including mobile homes, commercial, institutional,
industrial and other construction having the potential for substantial impact on coastal
zones.
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Mangrove: Any specimen of the species Avicennia germinans (black mangrove), Laguncu-
laria racemosa (white mangrove), Rhizophora mangle (red mangrove) and Conocarpus
erectus (buttonwood mangrove).
Mangrove Alteration: To cut, remove, damage, or destroy by any means. Mangrove
Alteration is distinct from the "trimming" or "pruning" of mangroves.
Manufactured Building: A structure, building assembly, or system of subassemblies,
approved by and bearing the insignia of approval of the Florida Department of Community
Affairs, or its successor agency, pursuant to the provisions of F.S. Ch. 553, Part IV. No mobile
home, whether complying or not complying with mobile home construction standards
promulgated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development or
required by the State of Florida shall be considered a manufactured building for the purpose
of this Code.
Manufactured Home: As used in Section 6.05.00, Floodplain Management, a structure,
transportable in one (1) or more sections, which is eight (8) feet or more in width and greater
than four hundred (400) square feet, and which is built on a permanent, integral chassis and
is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when attached to the required
utilities. The term "manufactured home" does not include a "recreational vehicle" or "park
trailer." [Also defined in 15C-1.0101, F.A.C.]
Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision: As used in Section 6.05.00, Floodplain
Management, a parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land divided into two (2) or more
manufactured home lots for rent or sale.
Manure: Solid waste composed of excreta of animals, and residual materials that have
been used for bedding, sanitary, or feeding purposes for such animals.
Market Value: As used in Section 6.05.00, Floodplain Management, the price at which a
property will change hands between a willing buyer and a willing seller, neither party being
under compulsion to buy or sell and both having reasonable knowledge of relevant facts. As
used in this ordinance, the term refers to the market value of buildings and structures,
excluding the land and other improvements on the parcel. Market value may be established
by a qualified independent appraiser, Actual Cash Value (replacement cost depreciated for
age and quality of construction), or tax assessment value adjusted to approximate market
value by a factor provided by the property appraiser.
Marquee: A hood, canopy, or awning of permanent construction that projects from the wall
face of a building.
Marquee Sign: See "Canopy Sign."
Marsh and Salt Tolerant Vegetation: Native salt tolerant forbes, herbs, grasses, sedges,
rushes, and nurse plants (for recruitment) which are listed in Chapters 17-4.02(17) or
17-4.022, Florida Administrative Code, in addition to: Halodule wrightii (cuban shoal grass),
Ruppia maritinia, Syringodium filiformis (manatee grass), and Thalassia testudinum (turtle
grass).
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Mean High Water (MHW): The average height of the high tides over a nineteen -year
period.
Mean High Water Line (MHWL): The intersection of the plane of mean high water, with
the estuarine or beach -dune shoreline areas.
Mean Low Water (MLW): The average height of the low tides over a nineteen -year period.
Mean Low Water Line (MLWL): The intersection of the plane of mean low water with the
estuarine or beach -dune shoreline areas.
Mean Sea Level (MSL): The average height of the sea for all stages of the tide. For
purposes of this Code, the term is synonymous with National Geodetic Vertical Datum
(NGVD).
Medical Cannabis: All parts of any plant of the genus cannabis, whether growing or not;
the seeds thereof, the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound,
manufacture, sale, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant or its seeds or resin that
is dispensed only from a dispensing organization for medical use by an eligible patient.
Medical Use: Administration of the ordered amount of low -THC cannabis or medical
cannabis. The term does not include the:
(1) Possession, use, or administration of low -THC cannabis or medical cannabis by
smoking.
(2) Transfer of low -THC cannabis or medical cannabis to a person other than the
qualified patient for whom it was ordered or the qualified patient's legal representa-
tive authorized to receive it on the qualified patient's behalf.
(3) Use or administration of low -THC cannabis or medical cannabis:
a. On any form of public transportation.
b. In any public place.
C. In a qualified patient's place of employment, if restricted by his or her employer.
d. In a correctional institution.
e. On the grounds of any child care facility, preschool, or school.
f. On or in any vehicle, aircraft, or motorboat.
Message Sign: An electronically changeable sign upon which graphic displays, symbols, or
words can be varied upon the face or faces of the sign to display time, temperature, public
service, or other information.
Meteorological Towers: A structure consisting of a tower foundation, tower, equipment
shelter, guy wires and assorted instruments and equipment measuring wind speed and
ambient weather conditions.
Microwave Dish Antenna: A dish -shaped device used to transmit and/or receive microwave
signals in a straight line to and from similarly earth bound point sources.
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Mining: Any activity that entails the excavation or removal of earth in excess of one
hundred (100) cubic yards from one (1) parcel of property to another parcel of property, or
from one (1) area of a parcel of property to another area on the same parcel if a public road
is used.
Minor Arterial Road: A roadway emphasizing through traffic movement similar to a major
arterial, but provides greater land access and distributed traffic to smaller geographical
areas than the major arterials. Minor arterials offer lower traffic mobility.
Minor Collector Street or Road: A roadway emphasizing traffic collection and distribution
between roadways of a greater hierarchy (arterials and major collectors) and local streets or
roads. A minor collector provides service for moderate volumes, trip length and speed.
Minor Replat: A replat for the purpose of lot line adjustment, without an increase in the
number of lots or units otherwise allowed.
Minor Structure: As used in Section 13.00.02, Coastal Construction Code, includes, but is
not limited to, pile -supported, elevated dune and beach walkover structures; beach access
ramps and walkways; stairways; pile -supported elevated viewing platforms gazebos, and
boardwalks; lifeguard support stands; public and private bathhouses; sidewalks, driveways,
parking areas, shuffleboard courts, tennis courts, handball courts, racquetball courts, and
other uncovered paved areas; earth -retaining walls; sand fences, privacy fences, ornamental
walls, ornamental garden structures, aviaries, and other ornamental construction. It shall
be a characteristic of minor structures that they are considered to be expendable under
design wind, wave, and storm forces.
Mobile Food Dispensing Vehicle: Any food service establishment that is self-propelled or
otherwise movable from place to place, that is self-contained and does not use electrical or
other utility connections of any kind, in which food is prepared and/or dispensed, and that
complies with all applicable requirements set forth by the Florida Department of Business
Regulation, Division of Hotels and Restaurants, or its successor agency, including but not
limited to those regulations set forth in Rule 7C-4.03, Florida Administrative Code.
Mobile Home: A structure transportable in one (1) or more sections, which structure is
eight (8) body feet (2.4 meters) or more in width and over thirty-five (35) feet in length, and
which structure is built on an integral chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling when
connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and
electrical systems contained therein.
Mobile Home, Class A: A mobile home certified to be in conformity with the Mobile Home
Construction and Safety Standards of the United States Department of Housing and Urban
Development, or its successor agency, and the standards of F.S. § 320.823.
Mobile Home Park: A place set aside and offered by a person or public body, for either
direct or indirect remuneration of the owner, lessor, or operator of such place, for the parking
or accommodation of six (6) or more mobile homes utilized for sleeping or eating.
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Monopole Tower: A telecommunications tower consisting of a single pole or spire
self -supported on a permanent foundation, constructed without guy wires, ground anchors,
or other supports.
Monument Sign: See "Ground Sign."
Motor Vehicle: An automobile, motorcycle, truck, trailer, semi -trailer, truck -tractor, and
semi -trailer combination, or any other vehicle operated on the roads of this county, used to
transport persons or property, and propelled by power other than muscular power.
Mulch: Non -living small aggregate materials such as gravel, rock, pebbles, bark, or pine
needles, used as ground cover.
Multiple -Message Sign: A sign on which information content can be changed automati-
cally by means of rotating panels which constitute or are a part of the sign face.
Multi Use Path: A bikeway (ten (10) to twelve (12) feet wide) physically separated from the
motorized vehicular traffic by an open space or barrier and either within highway
right-of-way or within an independent alignment. Multi -use paths may be used by
pedestrians, skaters, and joggers as well as bicyclists.
Nameplate: Generally, a sign indicating the name of and other information pertaining to
the occupant or resident of the dwelling unit or other building to which it is attached;
provided, however, that a nameplate may contain any other information chosen by the
property owner or occupant if all other requirements of this chapter are met.
National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD): As corrected in 1929, is a vertical control used
as a reference for establishing varying elevations within the floodplain.
Native l Drought -Tolerant Trees: Indigenous trees which tolerate periods of low rainfall.
See Section 7.09.06 (Standards for Native and Drought -Tolerant Vegetation).
Native Vegetation: Any indigenous tree, plant or shrub adapted to soil and climatic
conditions occurring onsite.
New Construction: As used in Section 6.05.00, Floodplain Management, for the purposes
of administration of this ordinance and the flood resistant construction requirements of the
Florida Building Code, structures for which the "start of construction" commenced on or after
August 13, 1981 and includes any subsequent improvements to such structures.
New Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision: As used in Section 6.05.00, Floodplain
Management, a manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of
facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including
at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site
grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed on or after August 13, 1981.
Newspaper of General Circulation: A newspaper published at least on a weekly basis; it
does not include a newspaper intended primarily for members of a particular professional or
occupational group, a newspaper whose primary function is to carry legal notices, or a
newspaper that is given away primarily to distribute advertising.
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Newsrack: Any self-service or coin operated box, container, storage unit, dispenser or
other unmanned device installed, used, or maintained for the display, sale or distribution of
newspapers or other periodicals or advertising circulars or any other printed matter.
Nonconcurrency Affidavit: A document signed by an applicant which defers the applica-
tion for a Certificate of Capacity and the Concurrency Test until receipt of a Final
Development Order for the proposed development.
Nonconforming Lot of Record: A lot of record that does not meet minimum area, width or
frontage requirements of this Code and as further described in Section 10.00.04 of the Code.
Nonconforming Structure: Any lawfully existing structure or building on the effective date
of this Code that does not comply with all of the provisions of this Code.
Nonconforming Use: Any use lawfully being made of any land, building, or structure on
the effective date of this Code that does not comply with the provisions of this Code.
Nonhabitable Major Structure: As used in Section 13.00.02, Coastal Construction Code,
includes, but is not limited to, swimming pools; parking garages; pipelines; piers; canals,
lakes, ditches, drainage structures, and other water -retention structures; water and sewage
treatment plants; electrical power plants, transmission and distribution lines, transformer
pads, vaults, and substations; roads, bridges, streets, and highways; underground storage
tanks.
Non -Native Vegetation: Any tree, plant or shrub established from outside sources where
local climatic and geologic conditions are similar to the source of origin and therefore
favorable to growth.
Nonresidential Activity: As used in Section 6.03.00, Wellfield Protection, means any
activity occurring on any described parcel of land, whether or not within a structure, with
the exception of residential activity as defined herein. Those nonresidential activities which
do not meet the definition criteria of existing nonresidential activity as defined herein, shall
be defined as new nonresidential activities.
Non -Rigid or Flexible Structures: As used in Section 6.02.01, Coastal Area Protection,
include, but are not limited to, beach and dune restoration, sand fencing, and stabilization
with beach and dune vegetation to reduce or control vegetation.
Normal Farming Operations: This term shall have the meaning set forth in Section
7.10.34(B) of the Code.
North American Vertical Datum: (NAVD) of 1988 means a vertical control used as a
reference for establishing varying elevations within the floodplain.
Nursing Home: An institution, public or private, that provides twenty-four (24) hours of
nursing care for three (3) or more unrelated individuals and is presently licensed pursuant
to F.S. § 400.062.
Nutrients: For the purposes of Section 7.10.34 only, this term shall mean nitrate, total
kjeldahl nitrogen, nitrite and total phosphorus.
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Objectionable Odor: Any odor present in the outdoor atmosphere which by itself or in
combination with other odors, is or may be harmful or injurious to human health or welfare,
which unreasonably interferes with the comfortable use and enjoyment of life or property, or
which creates a nuisance.
Offstreet Parking: Any area except a public right-of-way, used for the purpose of parking,
storing, or display of vehicles, boats, trailers, and mobile homes, including used car lots and
other open lot uses.
One -Foot Drawdown Contour: The locus of points around a wellhead or wellfield where the
free water elevation is lowered by one (1) foot due to a specified pumping rate of the well or
wellfield.
One -Hundred -Year Storm or 100 -Year Storm: A shore incident hurricane or any other
storm with accompanying wind, wave and storm surge intensity having a one percent (1%)
chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year, during any one -hundred -year
interval.
Open Space: Any parcel or area of land or water that is set aside, open and unobstructed
to the sky, and designated or reserved for public or private use or enjoyment.
Open Space, Common: A parcel or area of land or water in or related to a development site
that is set aside and designated or reserved for the use or enjoyment of the public or the
residents, occupants, and/or owners of the development or project site. Common open space
areas shall not be individually owned except by a recognized unit of local or state
government or an entity or organization acceptable to St. Lucie County.
Open Water Areas: Those waters defined as state jurisdictional waters herein.
Operational Entity: An acceptable, legally bound, responsible entity which agrees to
operate and maintain a facility or system.
Owner: For the purposes of Section 11.14.00, the term 'owner" shall mean a person with
a legal or equitable interest in real property who filed an application for a development
permit for any parcel land at the state, regional, or local level and who received a final
development order (including the rezoning of a specific parcel), or who holds legal title to real
property that is subject to an enforcement action of a governmental entity.
Pain Specialist (Approved): Approved pain specialist means a physician, or group of
physicians licensed under either F.S. Ch. 458 or 459 and who comply with State of Florida
rules for medical doctors and osteopathic physicians.
Pain Management Clinic: Pain management clinic means the same as the definition found
in F.S. (2010) § 458.3265(1)(a), as may be amended from time to time.
Parapet: A wall extension above the roof line.
Parcel of Land: Any contiguous quantity of land capable of being described with such
definiteness that its location and boundaries may be established, that is designated by its
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owner(s) or developer(s) as land to be used or developed as a unit, or that has been or
developed as a unit. If such a parcel of land is divided by a right-of-way or zoning boundary
it may be considered to be one (1) parcel by the owner.
Parent Tract: The parcel of land that existed prior to an acquiring authority obtaining an
interest in or title to some portion of the parcel through eminent domain action.
Park Trailer: As used in Section 6.05.00, Floodplain Management, a transportable unit
which has a body width not exceeding fourteen (14) feet and which is built on a single chassis
and is designed to provide seasonal or temporary living quarters when connected to utilities
necessary for operation of installed fixtures and appliances. [Defined in F.S. § 320.011
Parking Space: An area designated for temporary storage of a motor vehicle.
Participant: For the purposes of Section 11.14.00, the term "participant" shall mean:
a.) A person holding title to land contiguous to the owner's property, who has been
accepted by the Special Master as a participant in the proceeding; or
b.) A substantially affected person who submitted oral or written testimony, sworn or
unsworn, of a substantive nature which stated with particularity support for or
objections to the development order or enforcement action in a prior proceeding,
including a public hearing, and who has been accepted by the Special Master as a
participant in the proceeding.
Pathogens: Disease -carrying organisms, including certain bacteria, protozoa, viruses,
viable helminth ova, and other organisms that cause disease.
Pedestrian Sign: A sign that is attached to the underside of a cantilevered roof, portico, or
overhang, that extends from the wall face of an establishment or use, and that covers a
pedestrian passageway.
Pennant: Any animated, rotating and/or fluttering devices made of cloth, paper, balloons,
or fabric of any kind, with or without lettering or design, which are joined together in a
series, commonly attached in strings or strands, and designed so as to move in the wind.
Permanently Attached: Affixed by foundations, poles, braces, or other immovable structural
means to the ground or to a building or structure. Signs manufactured or intended for
portable use and affixed to the ground by ropes, chains, cables, weights, or other means
deemed non-structural by the Growth Management Director shall not be deemed to be
permanently attached.
Permitted Agent of the State: As it relates to Section 6.04.02, Sea Turtle Protection, any
qualified individual, group or organization possessing a permit from DNR to conduct
activities related to sea turtle protection and conservation.
Person: Any individual, firm, association, joint venture, partnership, estate, trust,
corporation, group, state officer, or unit of federal, state, county, or municipal government,
and all other associations and combinations, whether public or private.
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Personal Watercraft: A small class A-1 or A-2 vessel as defined by state law which uses an
outboard motor, or an inboard motor powering a water jet pump, as its primary source of
motive power and which is designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing, or kneeling
on, or being towed behind the vessel, rather than in the conventional manner of sitting or
standing inside the vessel.
Personal Wireless Service: Commercial mobile services, licensed wireless services, and
common carrier wireless exchange access services, and shall include "wireless service" as
defined in F.S. § 365.172, as amended, as well as "personal wireless services" as defined in
47 USC § 322(c)(7)(C)(i), as amended.
Personal Wireless Service Facilities: Facilities for the provision of personal wireless
services. A power, light, or other utility pole used exclusively as such prior to attachment of
a personal wireless service facility shall not be considered a personal wireless service facility
because of such attachment.
Pharmacy: Pharmacy means the same as the definition in F.S. (2010) § 465.003, as may be
amended from time to time.
Planting Area: Any area designated for landscape.
Pole Sign: See "Ground Sign."
Portable Sign: A movable sign not permanently attached to the ground, but not including
a temporary sign otherwise allowable under this Code. The term may include, without
limitation, "trailer," "sidewalk" or "sandwich" signs.
Potable Water: Water that is satisfactory for drinking, culinary and domestic purposes.
Meeting current state and federal drinking water standards.
Pre -Existing Towers and Pre -Existing Antennas: Any permitted existing tower or antenna
constructed or existing prior to September 2, 1997, or any telecommunications tower or
antenna for which a building permit or special use permit has been properly issued and
finalized, including permitted telecommunications towers or antennas that have not yet
been constructed so long as such approval and building permit is current and not expired.
Primary Dune: That portion of the dune system containing the highest point of elevation
(crest).
Processing: Any technique designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological
character or composition of any biosolids, yard trash, or solid waste used at a commercial
composting facility to produce compost. Processing includes but is not limited to physical
turning, windrowing, aeration, and other means of mechanically handling biosolids, yard
trash, solid waste, or other organic matter used to produce compost.
Projecting Sign: Any sign that is not defined as a wall, marquee, pedestrian, canopy, or
awning sign that extends from the face of any primary supporting exterior wall of the
structure to which it is attached.
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Prop Roots: The structures generally originating below the lowest limbs of red mangroves
which are also known as stilt roots.
Proposed Facilities Modification: Any request for modification of an eligible support
structure which the applicant asserts is subject to review under the Middle Class Tax Relief
and Job Creation Act ("Spectrum Act") (PL -122-96; codified at 47 U.S.C. § 1455(a)) and FCC
orders promulgated thereto, codified at 47 C.F.R. § 1.40001, and involving:
(1) Collocation of new transmission equipment;
(2) Removal of transmission equipment; or
(3) Replacement of transmission equipment.
Protected Species: Plant and animal species that are considered endangered, threatened,
rare, or of special concern by the Florida Committee on Rare and Endangered Plants and
Animals, the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, the Florida Department of
Agriculture and Consumer Services, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Prune or Trim: To cut away parts from a plant, top or lateral limbs, so as not to cause
death or to shorten its natural life span.
Public Facilities: As used in Chapter V, Adequate Public Facilities, public facilities means
drainage facilities, park and recreation facilities, potable water facilities, road facilities,
sanitary sewer facilities, solid waste facilities, and mass transit facilities.
Public Safety Communications Facility: Any wireless communications facilities used by
municipal, county, state or federal government agencies for the primary purpose of providing
public safety related communications, including but not limited to, wireless communications
for police, fire and emergency services.
Public Utility: Any system providing water service to the public which has at least fifteen
(15) service connections or regularly serves an average of at least twenty-five (25)
individuals daily for at least sixty (60) days of the year, with a permitted average withdrawal
capacity of one hundred thousand (100,000) gallons per day.
Public Utility Sign: A sign identifying the location of structures of facilities that may
present a safety hazard, such as underground lines, high voltage areas, or the like.
Public Water Supply Well: Wells withdrawing water from the surficial aquifer (localized
relatively shallow aquifer sources) for use as potable water that are operated by public
utilities.
Public Works Director: The head of the Department of Public Works, who shall be
appointed to serve at the pleasure of the County Administrator.
Public Wellfield: An area within the Zone of Protection surrounding each Public Water
Supply Well.
Qualified Applicant: As used in Section 11.08.00, Development Agreements, means a
person who has legal or equitable interest in the real property which is the subject of a
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proposed Development Agreement. If there is a question as to whether a person is a
Qualified Applicant, the applicant shall provide the County with an opinion of title from an
attorney licensed to practice in the State of Florida or a commitment of title insurance
demonstrating the person which has a legal or equitable interest in the property subject to
the proposed Development Agreement.
Record Drawings: Amended site plans and/or construction drawings specifying the
locations, dimensions, elevations, capacities and capabilities of structures or facilities as
they have actually been constructed. Record drawings must be signed, sealed and dated by
a registered professional engineer.
Recreational Equipment: Means boats, personal watercraft, trailers and items on trailers,
utility trailers, recreational vehicles, and similar vehicles or items.
Recreational Vehicle: As used in Section 6.05.00, Floodplain Management, a vehicle,
including a park trailer, which is: [See F.S. § 320.01)
(1) Built on a single chassis;
(2) Four hundred (400) square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal
projection;
(3) Designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light-duty truck; and
(4) Designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary living
quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use.
Recreational Vehicle Park: A place set aside and offered by a person or public body for
either direct or indirect remuneration of the owner, lessor, or operator of such place, for the
parking and accommodation of six (6) or more recreational vehicles or tents utilized for
sleeping or eating; and the term also includes buildings and sites set aside for group camping
and similar recreational facilities. For the purposes of this chapter, the terms "campground,"
"camping resort," "R.V. resort," "travel resort," and "travel park," or any variations of these
terms, shall be considered synonymous with the term "recreational vehicle park."
Recruitment: The trapping of tidally supplied mangrove seeds and seedlings and other
appropriate wetland species by nurse plants.
Regulated Area: That area within the Zone of Protection surrounding each Public Water
Supply Well, as defined by the Zone of Protection Maps.
Regulated Substances:
(1) Substances which are:
a. Known to have hazardous and toxic properties including but not limited to
those listed by the EPA in part 40 CFR 302; or
b. Listed as a priority toxic pollutant by the EPA in part 40 CFR 122.21; or
C. A toxic degradation product, which includes petroleum-based products; or
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d. On the Restrictive Use Pesticide List promulgated pursuant to F.S. Ch. 487, set
forth in Chapters 5E-2 and 5E-9, Florida Administrative Code.
(2) Regulated substances by generic designation shall include, but are not limited to,
those set forth in the list entitled "Public Wellfield Protection Generic Substance
List," which is maintained by the Wellfield Protection Officer.
(3) Regulated Substances do not include those that are used in the quantities exempt as
set out in Section 6.03.05.
Religious Facility: A building in which persons regularly assemble for religious worship,
and that is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public
worship.
Remainder Parcel: That portion of the parent tract remaining in private ownership
following eminent domain action. The remainder parcel may be vacant, or improved, just as
the parent tract may be vacant or improved.
Remove or Removal of Vegetation:
(1) The actual removal of vegetation; or
(2) Direct or indirect actions resulting in the effect removal of vegetation through
damaging or poisoning; or
(3) Similar actions directly or indirectly resulting in the death of vegetation.
Resident: As used in "family residential home", "community residential home" and
"institutional residential home" resident means any of the following: an aged person as
defined in F.S. § 400.618(3); a physically disabled or handicapped person as defined in F.S.
§ 760.225a; a nondangerous mentally ill person as defined in F.S. § 394.455(3); or a child as
defined in F.S. §§ 39.01(8) and (10).
Residential Activity: As used in Section 6.03.00, Wellfield Protection, means any building
or structure or portion thereof that is designated for or used for residential purposes and any
activity involving the use or occupancy of a described parcel of land for residential purposes.
Residential activity shall not include any activity or business requiring an occupational
license or other form of authorization to conduct a business.
Resort: A full-service lodging facility that provides access to or offers a range of amenities,
facilities and activities focused on recreation, leisure or experience oriented venues. Resorts
serve as the primary provider of the guests' experience, often provide services for business or
meetings, and are characteristically located in vacation -oriented settings.
Restaurant: Any establishment that serves prepared food and beverage for consumption
on the premises. Such establishment may include entertainment which is incidental to the
food service character of the use.
Restoration: See "Shoreline or Beach Restoration".
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Retail Trade: The sale of consumer goods, commodities, and services to ultimate
consumers.
Retrofitting: As used in Section 7.07.00, refers to improving the quality of urban
stormwater runoff to whatever degree is achievable. The improvement can include the
modification of existing, or the addition of new, structures or stormwater management
practices, or changes in activities or land uses.
Rights -of -Way: Land dedicated or deeded to public use or otherwise owned by a public
agency on which facilities such as roads, roadways, swales, bikepaths, sidewalks, railroads,
canals, utilities and for public street purposes and includes all dedicated rights-of-way for
any such facility.
Rigid Structure: As used in Section 6.02.01, Coastal Area Protection, means a man-made
or man -placed inflexible installation within the Dune Preservation Zone or Indian River
Lagoon Shoreline including, but not limited to, wooden, metal, or plastic structures such as
jetties, seawalls, bulkheads, mound structures, rip -rap, revetments, groins, breakwaters,
and sandbags.
Ripeness Decision: For the purposes of Section 11.14.00, the term "ripeness decision" shall
mean an available use decision which describes as specifically as possible the use or uses
available to the subject real property.
Road: The term "road" includes streets, sidewalks, alleys, highways and other ways open
to travel by the public including the roadbed, right-of-way and all culverts, drains, sluices,
ditches, water storage areas, waterways, embankments, slopes, retaining walls, bridges,
tunnels and viaducts necessary for the maintenance of travel and all ferries used in
connection therewith.
Roof Sign: Any sign erected over or on the roof of a building.
Rooming House: Any dwelling in which more than two (2) persons are lodged on a
continuing basis, without meals, for compensation.
Rural Arterial Road: Routes which generally interconnect with and augment urban minor
arterial roads and provide service to trips of longer length and a higher level of traffic
mobility.
Salt Marsh Impoundments: Those wetlands upon which mosquito control activities are or
have been undertaken as part of a St. Lucie County Mosquito Control District program.
Sand Dunes: As used in Section 6.05.00, Flood Damage Prevention, the term shall mean
naturally occurring accumulations of sand in ridges or mounds landward of the beach.
Scrub Habitat: A well -drained, fire adapted, plant community occurring primarily on
ridges (elevated areas), characterized by white or light colored, acidic sand. Generally, the
habitat has a sparse sand pine canopy, with dense clumps or vast thickets of scrub oaks and
other shrubs dominating the understory. The ground cover is generally very sparse, being
dominated by lichens and herbs, with open patches of barren, exposed sand.
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Seagrasses: Those submerged beds of the genera Halophila, Syringodium, Halodule,
Thalassia, and/or the green algae Caulerpa spp.
Sea Turtle(s): Any specimen belonging to the species Caretta (loggerhead turtle), Chelonia
mydas (green turtle), Dermochelys coriacea (leatherback turtle) or any other marine turtle
using St. Lucie County beaches as a nesting habitat.
Sea Turtle Hatchling: Any specimen of sea turtle, within or outside of a nest, which has
recently hatched from an egg.
Sea Turtle Nest: Any place in which sea turtle eggs are naturally deposited or relocated
beneath the sediments of the beach -dune system.
Search Area: The geographic area, in which a telecommunications facility must be located
to provide FCC required coverage of the applicant's designed service areas, as certified by a
radio frequency (RF) engineer, or other such appropriate technical expert.
Seasonal High Water Line: The line formed by the intersection of the rising shore and the
elevation of one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the local tidal range above mean high water.
Semitrailer: A semi -trailer which is used or designed primarily for carrying commercial
loads. It shall be presumed that any semitrailer having a tax class of 56 is a "semitrailer" as
defined herein.
Service Station: Any building, structure or land used primarily for the sale of motor fuels
or oil at retail direct to the customer, including the supplying of accessories, parts, and
services essential to the normal operation of automobiles.
SFWMD: The South Florida Water Management District.
Shoreline: A boundary line between land and water. In St. Lucie County the term refers
specifically to the interfaces along the Atlantic Ocean, Indian River Lagoon, North Fork of
the St. Lucie River, Ten Mile Creek, and their tributaries.
Shoreline Access Point or Access: See Beach or Shoreline Access Point or Access.
Shoreline or Beach Restoration: Any work to enhance the value and function of the
estuarine or beach -dune shoreline areas or to reconstruct or replace beaches or dunes.
Restoration includes, but is not limited to, the replanting of vegetation to stabilize the
estuarine or beach -dune shoreline areas.
Shrub: Any living, self-supporting woody evergreen plant, other than a tree, normally
grown in St. Lucie County.
Sidewalk: That portion of a roadway designed for preferential or exclusive use by
pedestrians and non -motorized vehicles.
Side Lot Lines: Straight lines connecting the end points of the front and rear lot lines.
Sidewalk or Sandwich Sign: See "Portable Sign".
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Sign: Any exterior device, structure, fixture, painting, emblem, or other visual medium,
that uses words, graphics, colors, illumination, symbols, letters, colors, or numbers for
expression or communication. The term "sign" shall not include any noncommercial message
displayed in the window, and entirely within the window area, of any lawfully existing
building. Signs also shall include, without limitation, flags, banners, and pennants.
Sign Area: The entire area within a perimeter line not exceeding eight (8) straight lines,
or a circle or ellipse, which encloses the extreme outer limits of the sign face. If a sign is
composed of one (1) or more sign cabinets or modules, the area enclosing the entire perimeter
of all cabinets and/or modules within a single, continuous geometric figure shall be the area
of the sign.
The perimeter of measurable area shall not include embellishments such as poles, pole
covers, framing, decorative roofing, support structures, etc., providing that there is no
expressive or communicating medium on such embellishments.
Where the sign faces of ground or projecting signs are parallel, or are V-shaped and have
an interior angle of less than sixty (60) degrees, the area of such signs shall equal the area
of the larger of the two (2) sign faces.
Where the sign faces of ground or projecting signs are V-shaped and have an interior angle
of sixty (60) degrees or greater, the area of such sign shall equal the sum of the area of both
sign faces.
SIGN AREA
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Sign Face: The part of a sign that is or may be used to convey a message or idea.
Site -Related Right -of -Way Dedications: Right-of-way dedications necessary to provide safe
and adequate access to a development, which are made necessary by the traffic to be
generated by or attracted to the development. Dedications of right-of-way to bring a road up
to local (minor) road standards are presumed to be site related.
Snipe Sign: A sign of any material, including but not limited to paper, cardboard, wood, or
metal, that does not comply with the standards of Section 9.02.01(A)(3) and is tacked, nailed,
pasted, glued, or otherwise attached to trees, poles, fences, rocks, benches, or similar objects,
either in the public right-of-way or other public property, or on private property without the
permission of the owner.
Solar Access: The access of a solar energy system to direct sunlight.
Solar Energy System: Any device or combination of devices or elements which rely upon
direct sunlight as an energy source, including but not limited to any substance or device
which collects sunlight for use in the heating or cooling of a structure or building, the heating
or pumping of water, or the generation of electricity. A solar energy system may be used for
purposes in addition to the collection of solar energy. These uses include, but are not limited
to, serving as a structural member or part of the roof of a building or structure and serving
as a window or wall. A solar energy system may be mounted on the building or on the ground
and is not the principal use of the property.
Solar Generation Station: An energy generation facility comprised of one (1) or more
freestanding, ground mounted devices that capture solar energy and convert it to electrical
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energy for use in locations other than where it is generated. Solar generation stations
typically utilize photovoltaic solar cells, but can also be combinations of light reflectors,
concentrators, and heat exchangers. A solar generation station is also known as a solar
plant, solar generation plant, solar farm, solar power plant, or solar thermal power plant.
Solid Waste: Sludge unregulated under the federal Clean Water Act or Clean Air Act,
sludge from a waste treatment works, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control
facility, or garbage, rubbish, refuse, special waste, or other discarded material, including
solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from domestic, industrial,
commercial, mining, agricultural, or governmental operations.
Special Flood Hazard Area: See Area of Special Flood Hazard.
Special Flood Hazard Area: As used in Section 6.05.00 Floodplain Management, an area
in the floodplain subject to a one percent (1%) or greater chance of flooding in any given year:
Special flood hazard areas are shown on FIRMS as Zone A, AO, Al -A30, AE, A99, AH,
Vl-V30, VE or V. [Also defined in FBC, B, Section 202.1
Special Master Proceeding: Means any combination of facilitation sessions, formal or
informal hearings, of a public nature authorized under Section 11.14.00 of this Code.
Specified Anatomical Areas:
Less than opaquely covered:
(1) Human genitals;
(2) Human pubic region;
(3) Human female breasts at or directly below the areola. This prohibition shall include
the entire lower portion of the female breast but shall not be interpreted to include
any portion of the cleavage of the breast exhibited by a dress, blouse, shirt, leotard,
bathing suit, or other wearing apparel, provided the areola is not so exposed;
(4) Human male genitals in discernible turgid state, even if completely and opaquely
covered; and
(5) Human buttocks.
Specified Sexual Activities: Human genitals in the state of sexual stimulation or arousal;
acts of human adamitism, anilinctus, bestiality, coprophilia, cunnilingus, fellatio, flagella-
tion, frottage, hyphephilia, masochism, masturbation, sadism, sadomasochism, sexual
intercourse, sodomy, or urolagnia; and fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals,
human pubic region, or female breasts.
Specimen Tree: A tree which has been determined by the Board of County Commissioners,
following input from the Community Development Department, to be of high value because
of its type, size, age, or other relevant criteria, and has been so designated by the Board in
the official record books of the county following a public hearing with due notice provided in
advance by certified mail to the owner.
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Sponsoring Agency: As used in the context of "community residential home" sponsoring
agency means an agency or unit of government, a profit or nonprofit agency, or any other
person or organization which intends to establish or operate a community residential home.
St. Lucie County Port and Airport Authority: That authority created under Chapter
88-515, § 2, Laws of Florida responsible for the administration of the St. Lucie County
International Airport and Port of Fort Pierce.
St. Lucie River Watershed: The St. Lucie River, its tributaries, its estuary, and the areas
within St. Lucie County, Martin County, and Okeechobee County from which surface water
flow is directed or drains, naturally or by constructed works, to the St. Lucie River, its
tributaries, or its estuary.
Start of Construction: As used in Section 6.05.00, Floodplain Management, the date of
issuance of permits for new construction and substantial improvements, provided the actual
start of construction, repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, placement, or other
improvement is within one hundred eighty (180) days of the date of the issuance. The actual
start of construction means either the first placement of permanent construction of a
building (including a manufactured home) on a site, such as the pouring of slab or footings,
the installation of piles, or the construction of columns.
Permanent construction does not include land preparation (such as clearing, grading, or
filling), the installation of streets or walkways, excavation for a basement, footings, piers, or
foundations, the erection of temporary forms or the installation of accessory buildings such
as garages or sheds not occupied as dwelling units or not part of the main buildings. For a
substantial improvement, the actual "start of construction" means the first alteration of any
wall, ceiling, floor or other structural part of a building, whether or not that alteration affects
the external dimensions of the building. [Also defined in FBC, B, Section 202.1
State: The State of Florida.
State Highway System: Consists of:
(1) Interstate system;
(2) All rural arterial routes and their extensions into and through urban areas;
(3) All urban principal arterial routes; and
(4) Certain urban minor arterial routes designated by the Florida Department of
Transportation.
State Jurisdictional Waters: Those waters and wetlands within the State dredge and fill
jurisdiction pursuant to Sections 17-4.02(17) and 17-4.022, Florida Administrative Code, and
rules on Sovereignty Lands, Chapter 16Q-21, Florida Administrative Code, and Florida
Aquatic Preserves, Chapter 16Q-20, Florida Administrative Code.
State Minimum Building Code: The building code adopted by a municipality or county
pursuant to the requirements of F.S. § 553.73.
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State Roads: All streets, roads, highways, and other public ways open to travel by the
public generally, and dedicated to the public use according to law or by prescription, and
designated by the Florida Department of Transportation as provided by law, as parts of the
State Highway System.
Stealth Tower or Camouflage Tower, Equipment Building or Antenna Structure: A
designed structure that encloses, obscures or conceals the presence of an antenna,
equipment building and/or telecommunications tower such that the tower, equipment
building and/or antenna blends into the environment. For example, the following may be
determined to be a stealth, or camouflage tower, equipment building or antenna: Towers and
antennas integrated into man-made trees that are similar in height, branches and leaf
coverage to natural trees occurring on the proposed site, clock towers, bell steeples, light
poles, architecturally screened roof mounted antennas, equipment buildings installed below
grade or not visible beyond the property as a result of landscaping or other buffering, and
similar alternative designs. Stealth or camouflage tower may also be referenced as an
"Alternative Tower Structure."
Stormwater Management Plan: The detailed analysis which describes the proposed
stormwater management system for the development.
Street: Public or private ways that have been set aside through dedication, deed, or
condemnation for public or private use or that have become a public way by prescriptive use,
without regard to maintenance responsibility, but not including easements. This definition
does not include any private street or way, that is not constructed in conformance with the
provisions of Chapter XIII of this Code.
Structure: Anything constructed or installed, the use of which requires location on a parcel
of land. It does not include a movable structure, even when it is located on land that can be
used for housing, business, commercial, agricultural, or office purposes. "Structure" also
includes fences, billboards, swimming pools, and signs. Structures should meet Florida
Building Code requirements and be permanently affixed. As used in Section 6.05.00, Flood
Damage Prevention, the term shall mean a walled and roofed building, including a gas or
liquid storage tank that is principally above ground, as well as a manufactured home.
Subdivision: The platting of real property into three (3) or more lots, parcels, tracts, tiers,
blocks, sites, units, or any other division of land.
Substantial Change: A modification that changes the physical dimensions of an Eligible
Support Structure if it meets any of the following criteria:
(1) For towers other than towers in the public rights-of-way, it increases the height of the
tower by more than ten percent (10%) or by the height of one (1) additional antenna
array with separation from the nearest existing antenna not to exceed twenty (20)
feet, whichever is greater; for other eligible support structures, it increases the
height of the structure by more than ten percent (10%) or more than ten (10) feet,
whichever is greater;
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(2) For towers other than towers in the public rights-of-way, it involves adding an
appurtenance to the body of the tower that would protrude from the edge of the tower
more than twenty (20) feet, or more than the width of the tower structure at the level
of the appurtenance, whichever is greater; for other eligible support structures, it
involves adding an appurtenance to the body of the structure that would protrude
from the edge of the structure by more than six (6) feet;
(3) For any eligible support structure, it involves installation of more than the standard
number of new equipment cabinets for the technology involved, but not to exceed four
(4) cabinets; or, for towers in the public rights-of-way and base stations, it involves
installation of any new equipment cabinets on the ground if there are no pre-existing
ground cabinets associated with the structure, or else involves installation of ground
cabinets that are more than ten percent (10%) larger in height or overall volume than
any other ground cabinets associated with the structure;
(4) It entails any excavation or deployment outside the current site;
(5) It would defeat the concealment elements of the eligible support structure; or
(6) It does not comply with conditions associated with the siting approval of the
construction or modification of the eligible support structure or base station
equipment, provided however that this limitation does not apply to any modification
that is non-compliant only in a manner that would not exceed the thresholds
identified in sub -paragraphs (i) -(iv) of this section.
Subdivision Collector Roads: Routes collecting and distributing traffic between local roads
within a subdivision.
Substantial Damage: Damage of any origin sustained by a building or structure whereby
the cost of restoring the building or structure to its before -damaged condition would equal or
exceed fifty percent (50%) of the market value of the building or structure before the damage
occurred. [Also defined in FBC, B, Section 202.1
Substantial Improvement: As used in Section 6.05.00, Flood Damage Prevention, the term
shall mean, any repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration, addition, or other improve-
ment of a building or structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds fifty percent (50%) of the
market value of the building or structure before the improvement or repair is started. If the
structure has incurred "substantial damage," any repairs are considered substantial
improvement regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however,
include either: [Also defined in FBC, B, Section 202.1
(1) Any project for improvement of a building required to correct existing health,
sanitary, or safety code violations identified by the building official and that are the
minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions.
(2) Any alteration of a historic structure provided the alteration will not preclude the
structure's continued designation as a historic structure.
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Substantially Improved Existing Manufactured Home Parks or Subdivisions: Where the
repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of the streets, utilities and pads equals
or exceeds fifty percent (50%) of the value of the streets, utilities and pads before the repair,
reconstruction or improvement commenced.
Telecommunications Facility Operator: A provider of telecommunications services, or an
owner or operator of a telecommunications facility.
Telecommunications Tower Height or Height: When referring to a wireless telecommunica-
tions tower or other structure, the distance measured from the finished grade of a parcel to
the highest point on the tower or other structure, including the base pad and any antenna,
but excluding lights and lightning rods.
Temporary Building or Structure: A temporary building or structure is a building or
structure that is intended to be located on a parcel of land for a limited period of time or
duration. All temporary buildings or structures shall be adequately secured or anchored to
the ground in accord with the requirements of the Standard Building Code or in the case of
State Certified manufactured buildings or mobile homes, said modular buildings or mobile
homes shall be properly anchored to applicable laws or regulations.
Temporary Sign: A sign that does not meet the construction standards of the Florida
Building Code and that, for a limited period of time, conveys any message relating to a
special event or other occurrence of limited duration, such as an election; a building under
construction; real estate for sale, rent, or lease; or a business grand openings.
Temporary Use: A use, other than an accessory use, that does not involve the construction
or alteration of any permanent structure and that is established for a fixed period of time
with the intent to discontinue such use upon the expiration of the established time period.
See Section 8.02.00.
Tinted Glass: Any window which has:
(1) A shading coefficient (the percent of incident radiation passing through a window) of
.45 or less; and
(2) A minimum five-year warranty; and
(3) Performance claims which are supported by approval testing procedures and
documentation.
Trailer Sign: A movable visually communicative structure mounted on skids, wheel, or
wheels, whether or not registered to travel on the public roads.
Transient Lodging Facilities: Structures with units or rooms generally used for occupan-
cies of less than four (4) weeks including without limitations hotels/motels, time-share
facilities and tourist courts.
Transmission Equipment: Equipment that facilitates transmissions for any FCC -licensed
or authorized wireless communication service, including, but not limited to, radio transceiv-
ers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cable, and regular and backup power supply. The term
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includes equipment associated with wireless communications services including, but not
limited to, private, broadcast, and public safety services, as well as unlicensed wireless
services and fixed wireless services such as microwave backhaul and the associated site, and
shall not include for example: utility poles, light poles, pedestrian signalized poles or
signalized intersection poles, masts, or similar vertical structures that have a primary
purpose or function independent of supporting a wireless telecommunications facility.
Transportation Corridor: Any land area, designated by the state or the county which is
between two (2) geographic points and which area is used or is suitable for the movement of
people and goods by one (1) or more modes of transportation and may include areas
necessary for management of access and securing applicable approvals and permits.
Transportation corridors shall contain, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Existing publicly owned rights-of-way;
(2) All property or property interests necessary for future transportation facilities,
including rights of access, air, view, and light, whether public or private, for the
purpose of securing and utilizing future transportation rights-of-way, including, but
not limited to, any lands reasonably necessary now or in the future for securing
applicable approvals and permits, borrow pits, drainage ditches, water retention
areas, rest areas, replacement access for landowners whose access could be impaired
due to the construction of a future facility, and replacement rights-of-way for
relocation of rail and utility facilities.
Transportation Facility: Any public way provided for the passage of people and property
from place to place that is constructed, operated, or maintained in whole or in part from
public funds. The term includes the property or property rights, both real and personal,
which have been or may be established by public bodies for the passage of people and
property from place to place.
Travel Trailer: A vehicular portable structure not exceeding thirty-six (36) feet in length
designed for travel, recreational, and vacation uses.
Tree: A woody plant having a well-defined stem, a more or less well defined crown, and
which is capable of attaining a height of at least fifteen (15) feet with a trunk diameter of not
less than two (2) inches, or a cluster of main stems having an aggregate diameter of not less
than two (2) inches, DBH.
Tree Canopy: The leafy portion of a tree.
Tropical Hardwood Hammock Trees: Trees of Caribbean and South Florida origins,
commonly found on Hutchinson Island and between the Florida East Coast railroad and
western shore of the Indian River Lagoon including, but not limited to:
COMMON NAME
Bay Cedar
SCIENTIFIC
NAME
Suriana maritima
COMMON NAME
Paradise Tree
SCIENTIFIC
NAME
Simarouba glauca
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St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 2:55 Adopted May 19, 2009
SCIENTIFIC
SCIENTIFIC
COMMON NAME
NAME
COMMON NAME
NAME
Black Ironwood
Krugiodendron
Pigeon Plum
Coccoloba diversi-
ferreum
3
folia
Black Mangrove
Avicenna germin-
Poisonwood
Metopium tox-
ans
iferum
Blolly
Guapira discolor'
Pond -Apple
Annona glabra
Buttonwood
ConocarpusPotato
Tree
Solanum erian-
erectus
thum
Cocoplum
Chrysobalanus
Red Mangrove
Rhizophora
icaco
mangle
Graytwig
Schoepfia chryso-
Saffron Plum
Bumelia celastrina
phylloides
Guiana Plum
Drypetes lateri-
Satinleaf
Chrysophyllum
flora
oliviforme
Gumbo -Limbo
Bursera sima-
Seagrape
Coccoloba uvifera
rouba
Inkwood
Exothea panicu-
. ; Spanish Stopper
Eugenia foetida
lata
Jamaica Capter
Capparis
Strangler Fig
Ficus aurea
cynophallophora
Lancewood
Nectandra coria-
Tallowwood, Hog
Ximenia
cea
Plum
americana
Limber Caper
Capparis flexuosa
kA
Torchwood
Amyris elemifera
Malberry
Ardisia escallo-
Varnish Leaf
Dodonea viscosa
noides
NF
Mastic
no
Mastichodendron �
, White Mangrove
Laguncularia rac-
foetidissimum .,
emosa
Myrsine
Rapanea punctata
White Stopper
Eugenia axillaris
Nakedwood, Twin-
Myrcianthes fra-
Wild Lime
Zanthoxylum
berry
grans
fagara
Underdrain: A perforated conduit, installed beneath the ground surface, which collects
and conveys water by gravity to an outfall.
Undesignated Bike Lane: A bike lane, which is not designated by the diamond, bike and
arrow pavement markings.
It is striped as
a regular bike lane on
the approaches to
intersections.
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Urban Minor Arterial Road: Routes which generally interconnect with and augment
urban principal arterial roads and provide service to trips of shorter length and a lower level
of travel mobility. Such routes include all arterials not classified as principal and contain
facilities that place more emphasis on land access than the highway system.
Urban Principal Arterial Road: Routes which generally serve the major centers of activity
of an urban area, the higher traffic volume corridors and the longest trip purpose and carry
a high proportion of the total urban area travel on a minimum of mileage.
Use: The purpose for which land, structures, buildings, or signs are designed, arranged,
and erected.
Variance: A grant of relief from the requirements of this chapter which permits
construction in a manner otherwise prohibited by this Code where specific enforcement
would result in unnecessary hardship. See Section 10.01.00.
Variance: As used in Section 6.05.00, Floodplain Management, a grant of relief from the
requirements of this ordinance, or the flood resistant construction requirements of the
Florida Building Code, which permits construction in a manner that would not otherwise be
permitted by this ordinance or the Florida Building Code.
Vegetated Buffer Strip: Areas retained in their natural state or replanted along the banks
of watercourses, water bodies, or wetlands. The width of the buffer should be sufficient to
prevent erosion, trap the sediment in overland runoff, provide access to the water body, and
allow for periodic flooding without damage to structures.
Vegetation: Any living plant tissue including trees, shrubs, herbs, sedges, grasses, fungi,
and algae.
Vegetation, Nonprotected: The following species are defined as nonprotected plant species
for the purpose of this ordinance:
(1) All species of Casuarina, including Australian pine;
(2) Enterolobium cycocarpum: ear pod tree;
(3) Melia azedarach: Chinaberry;
(4) Schinus terebinthifolius: Brazilian pepper tree;
(5) Melaleuca quinquenervia: Melaleuca, punk or paper tree;
(6) Albezzia lebbeck: Mother's tongue;
(7) Grevilla robusta: Silk oak;
(8) Jacaranda acutifolia: jacaranda;
(9) Eucalyptus: all species;
(10) Sapium sebiferum: Chinese tallow tree;
(11) Albizzia julibrissin: Mimosa.
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Vegetation, Protected: All vegetation other than:
(1) Prohibited plant species; or
(2) Non-native fruit trees that are cultivated or grown for the specific purpose of
producing edible fruit including, but not limited to, mangoes, avocados, or species of
citrus; or
(3) Trees that are less than five (5) inches in diameter at a point four and one-half (41/2)
feet aboveground or less than fifteen (15) feet in height;
(4) Grasses.
Vegetation Inventory: A drawing or sketch prepared to scale which provides the approximate
location, extent, and common names of the trees or major groups of vegetation on site. The
vegetation inventory shall include the proposed locations of buildings, structures, driveways,
and other improvements drawn to scale and the individual location of all protected trees of
approximately twelve (12) inches DBH or greater within all improvement areas and within
ten (10) feet of all improvement areas.
Vehicular Sign: A sign affixed to a vehicle or trailer for the purposes of this Code, this
definition shall only be applicable when said vehicle or trailer is on a parcel for the primary
purpose of conveying a message and not otherwise incidental to the vehicle's primary
purpose of transportation.
Vehicular Use Area: Any area intended to support tracked or tired vehicles capable of
self -propulsion. Vehicular use areas are engineered and constructed to support repeated
loadings of these vehicles. The incidental use of an area by a tracked or tired vehicle to park
non -self-propelled vehicles, for example, trailers, does not make the area used for the
parking of such vehicles a vehicle use area. The vehicle use area construction of an
all-weather impervious surface is not required but shall include measures in conformance to
St. Lucie County Engineering design standards to direct and store all stormwater run-off so
it is treated prior to any off-site discharge. This requirement is not intended to supersede or
otherwise contradict any regulatory requirements by any other agency.
Violation: As used in Section 6.05.00, Flood Damage Prevention, means the failure of a
structure or other development to be fully compliant with the requirements of this section.
A structure or other development without the elevation certificate, other certifications, or
other evidence of compliance required by this section is presumed to be in violation until
such time as that documentation is provided.
Wall Face: The entire building front including the parapet.
Wall Mural: A wall mural shall mean any picture or graphic design painted on or
otherwise applied to the exterior of a building or structure. A wall mural may include
communicative wording or characters to the extent that the mural does not violate the wall
sign requirements of the zoning district in which the mural is located.
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Wall Sign: A sign erected parallel and attached to the outside wall facade of any building
or fence, including flat, painted, individual letter, or cabinet signs.
Water Dependent Activity: An activity which can only be conducted on, in, over, or adjacent
to water areas because the activity requires direct access to the water body or sovereignty
lands for transportation, recreation, energy production or transmission, or source of water,
and where the use of the water or sovereignty lands is an integral part of the activity.
Water or Sewer Utility: As used by this Code, a water or sewer utility shall mean a water
or sewer utility which is providing service to one hundred (100) or more persons for
compensation.
Watercourse: As used in 6.05.00, Floodplain Management, a river, creek, stream, channel
or other topographic feature in, on, through, or over which water flows at least periodically.
Well: Any excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, driven, dug, jetted, or otherwise
constructed when the intended use of such excavation is to conduct groundwater from a
source bed to the surface, by pumping or natural flow, when groundwater from such
excavation is used or is to be used for a public water supply well.
Wellfield Protection Officer: The St. Lucie County Hydrologist or designee.
Wetland: An area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a
frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances does
support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions,
commonly known as hydrophytic vegetation.
Wetland Alteration: Any dredging, filling, cutting, drainage, or flooding of a jurisdictional
wetland.
Wetland Dredging: Any disruption or displacement of wetland substrate or bottom
sediments or contours. It also means the excavation or creation of a water body which is or
will be connected to jurisdictional wetlands as defined in Section 6.02.03(B).
Wetland Filling: The placement of any material in, on, or over a jurisdictional wetland.
Wetland Functions: The roles wetlands serve, including but not limited to flood storage,
flood conveyance, ground water recharge and discharge, erosion control, wave attenuation,
water quality enhancement and protection, nutrient removal, food chain support, wildlife
habitat, breeding and habitat grounds for fishery species, and recreational values.
Wetland Mitigation: The compensation for the loss of wetland acreage, value and functions
by the creation of new wetlands or the enhancement of existing wetlands.
Whip Antenna: A cylindrical antenna that transmits signals in three hundred sixty (360)
degrees.
Wholesale Trade: The sale of goods for resale by a retail establishment to the ultimate
consumer.
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DEFINITIONS 2.00.00
Wireless Communications Facility or Telecommunications Facility: Any equipment or
facility used to provide wireless telecommunications service and may include, but is not
limited to, antennas, towers, equipment enclosures, cabling, antenna brackets, and other
such equipment. Placing a wireless communications facility on an existing structure does
not cause the existing structure to become a wireless communications facility. Such
definition shall not include facilities of a governmental entity where such facilities are
utilized to provide intra -governmental communications, not generally available to the
public, to protect the health, safety and welfare of the public, including but not limited to the
South Florida Water Management District.
Wireless Telecommunications Service: Personal wireless service or "commercial mobile
radio service" as provided under ss. 3(27) and 332(d) of the Federal Telecommunications Act
of 1996, 47 U.S.C. §§ 151 et seq., and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Pub.
L. No. 103-66, August 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 312. The term includes service provided by any
wireless real-time two-way communication device, including radio -telephone communica-
tions used in cellular telephone service; personal communications service; or the functional
or competitive equivalent of a radio -telephone communications line used in cellular
telephone service, a personal communications service, or a network radio access line. The
term does not include wireless providers that offer mainly dispatch service in a more
localized, noncellular configuration; providers offering only data, one-way, or stored -voice
services on an interconnected basis; providers of air -to -ground services; or public coast
stations.
Wireless Tower or Telecommunications Tower or Tower: Any structure, and support
thereto, designed and constructed for the sole or primary purpose of supporting one (1) or
more antennas and their associated equipment intended for transmitting or receiving
wireless telecommunications services, telephone, radio and similar communication purposes,
licensed or authorized by the FCC to the extent required, including lattice, monopole and
guyed telecommunications towers. Unless otherwise expressly excluded, the term includes
transmission telecommunications towers, microwave telecommunications towers, common -
carrier telecommunications towers, cellular telephone telecommunications towers, alterna-
tive telecommunications tower structures, among others. To the extent not inconsistent with
applicable law, the term Wireless Tower or Telecommunications Tower does not include a
utility pole for the collocation of a small wireless facility in the County's public rights-of-way
pursuant to the St. Lucie County Communications Rights -of -Way Ordinance, Chapter 44,
Article I, of the County Code. A Wireless Tower, Telecommunications Tower or Tower shall
not include the following:
(1) A cell -on -wheels authorized pursuant to Section 7.10.23;
(2) A structure supporting a utility transmission line(s) only;
(3) A structure up to one hundred fifty (150) feet in height supporting a 69KV or higher
voltage utility transmission line(s), and antenna(e), when located in non-residential
zoning districts;
(4) An amateur radio antenna or its support apparatus; and
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(5) A structure supporting a radio, television or satellite receiving antenna for residential
uses only.
Yard: An open space at grade between a building and the property lines of the lot on which
the building is located, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as
otherwise provided herein. In measuring a yard for the purpose of determining the depth of
a side yard, the depth of a front yard, or the depth of a rear yard, the minimum horizontal
distance between the lot line and the main building shall be used.
Yard, Front: A yard extending across the front of a lot, bounded by the side lot lines, front
property line and the front of the main building or any projections thereof. In all cases, the
main building and any projections thereof must be behind the line of minimum lot width.
Yard, Rear: A yard extending across the rear of a lot between the side lot lines and the rear
property line, and being the required minimum horizontal distance between the rear
property line and the rear of the main building or any projections thereof. On all lots the rear
yard shall be at the opposite end of the lot from the front yard.
Yard, Side: A yard between the main building and the side line of the lot, extending from
the required front yard to the required rear yard, and being the minimum horizontal
distance between a side property line and the side of the main building or any projections
thereof.
Yard Trash: Means vegetative matter resulting from landscaping maintenance and land
clearing operations and includes materials such as tree and shrub trimmings, grass
clippings, palm fronds, trees and tree stumps, and associated rocks and soils. For purposes
of Section 7.10.34 only. Yard trash also includes clean wood.
Zone of Protection: Those areas around public water supply wellfields meeting the criteria
in Section 6.03.02.
(Ord. No. 10-003, Pt. A, 2-15-2010; Ord. No. 10-034, Pt. A, 11-9-2010; Ord. No. 11-005, Pts.
A, B, 2-1-2011; Ord. No. 11-031, Pt. A, 12-20-2011; Ord. No. 11-017, Pt. A, 6-21-2011; Ord.
No. 11-012, § A, 8-2-2011; Ord. No. 12-003, Pt. A, 5-15-2012; Ord. No. 12-009, Pt. A,
4-17-2012; Ord. No. 12-010, Pt. A, 2-14-2012; Ord. No. 13-038, Pt. A, 9-3-2013; Ord. No.
15-002, Pt. A, 4-7-2015; Ord. No. 16-009, Pt. A, 6-7-2016; Ord. No. 17-004, Pt. A, 4-18-2017;
Ord. No. 17-005, Pt. A, 5-16-2017; Ord. No. 17-015, § 2, 7-5-2017; Ord. No. 18-001, Pt. A,
1-23-2018; Ord. No. 2018-006, Pt. A, 5-15-2018)
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1. Telecommunication towers - subject to the standards of Section 7.10.23. (999)
3. Lot Size Requirements. Lot size requirements shall be in accordance with Section
7.04.00.
4. Dimensional Regulations. Dimensional requirements shall be in accordance with
Section 7.04.00.
5. Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements. Off-street parking and loading
requirements are subject to Section 7.06.00.
6. Landscaping Requirements. Landscaping Requirements are subject to Section
7.09.00.
7. Conditional Uses:
a. Agricultural labor housing. (999)
b. Aircraft storage and equipment maintenance. (4581)
C. Airports and flying, landing, and take -off fields. (4581)
d. Family residential homes located within a radius of one thousand (1,000) feet of
another such family residential home. (999)
e. Farm products warehousing and storage. (4221/4222)
f. Gasoline service stations. (5541)
g. Industrial wastewater disposal. (999)
h. Manufacturing:
(1) Agricultural chemicals. (287)
(2) Food and kindred products. (20)
(3) Lumber and wood products, except furniture. (24)
i. Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals, except fuels. (14)
j. Retail trade:
(1) Farm equipment and related accessories. (999)
(2) Apparel and accessory stores. (56)
k. Sewage disposal subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.13. (999)
1. Camps - sporting and recreational. (7032)
m. Off-road vehicle parks, except go-cart raceway operation or rentals (7999),
subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.21. (999)
n. Outdoor shooting ranges, providing site plan approval is obtained according to
the provisions of Sections 11.02.07 through 11.02.09 and Section 7.10.19 of this
Code.
0. Solar generation station subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.28. (999)
p. Commercial composting facilities subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.34.
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8. Accessory Uses: Accessory uses are subject to the requirements of Section 8.00.00,
and include the following:
a. Mobile homes subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.05.
b. Retail trade and wholesale trade - subordinate to the primary authorized use or
activity.
C. Guest house subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.04. (999)
d. Solar energy system subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.28. (999)
D. R / C RESIDENTIAL / CONSERVATION.
1. Purpose. The purpose of this district is to provide and protect an environment
suitable for single-family dwellings at a maximum gross density of one (1) dwelling
unit per five (5) gross acres, together with such other uses as may be necessary for
and compatible with low density residential surroundings. The number in
following each identified use corresponds to the SIC Code reference described in
Section 3.01.02(B). The number 999 applies to a use not defined under the SIC Code
but may be further defined in Section 2.00.00 of this Code.
2. Permitted Uses:
a. Family day care homes. (999)
b. Family residential homes provided that such homes shall not be located within
a radius of one thousand (1,000) feet of another existing such family residential
home and provided that the sponsoring agency or Department of Health and
Rehabilitative Services (HRS) notifies the Board of County Commissioners at
the time of home occupancy that the home is licensed by HRS. (999)
C. Single-family detached dwellings. (999)
3. Lot Size Requirements. Lot size requirements shall be in accordance with Section
7.04.00.
4. Dimensional Regulations. Dimensional requirements shall be in accordance with
Section 7.04.00.
5. Off -Street Parking Requirements. Off-street parking requirements shall be in
accordance with Section 7.06.00.
6. Landscaping Requirements. Landscaping requirements shall be subject to Section
7.09.00.
7. Conditional Uses:
a. Family residential homes located within a radius of one thousand (1,000) feet of
another such family residential home. (999)
b. Telecommunication towers - subject to the standards of Section 7.10.23. (999)
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2. Permitted Uses:
a. Community residential homes subject to the provisions of Section 7.10.07. (999)
b. Family day care homes. (999)
C. Family residential homes provided that such homes shall not be located within
a radius of one thousand (1,000) feet of another existing such family residential
home and provided that the sponsoring agency or the Department of Health and
Rehabilitative Services (HRS) notifies the Board of County Commissioners at
the time of home occupancy that the home is licensed by HRS. (999)
d. Multiple -family dwellings (three (3) or more units). (999)
e. Single-family detached dwellings. (999)
f. Two-family dwellings. (999)
3. Lot Size Requirements. Lot size requirements shall be in accordance with Section
7.04.00.
4. Dimensional Regulations. Dimensional requirements shall be in accordance with
Section 7.04.00.
5. Off -Street Parking Requirements. Off-street parking requirements shall be in
accordance with Section 7.06.00.
6. Landscaping. Landscaping requirements shall be in accordance with Section 7.09.00.
7. Conditional Uses:
a. Family residential homes located within a radius of one thousand (1,000) feet of
another such family residential home. (999)
b. Telecommunication towers - subject to the standards of Section 7.10.23. (999)
8. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses are subject to the requirements of Section 8.00.00.
a. Solar energy systems, subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.28.
Q. CN COMMERCIAL, NEIGHBORHOOD.
1. Purpose. The purpose of this district is to provide and protect an environment
suitable for limited retail trade and service activities covering a relatively small area
and that is intended to serve the population living in surrounding neighborhoods.
The number in "( )" following each identified use corresponds to the SIC code
reference described in Section 3.01.02(B). The number 999 applies to a use not
defined under the SIC code but may be further defined in Section 2.00.00 of this code.
2. Permitted Uses:
a. Beauty and barber services. (723/724)
b. Membership organizations subject to the provisions of Section 7.10.31. (86)
C. Depository institutions. (60)
d. Laundering and dry cleaning (self service). (7215)
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e. Real estate. (65)
f. Repair services:
(1) Electrical repair. (762)
(2) Shoe repairs. (725)
(3) Watch, clock, jewelry, and musical instrument repair. (7631)
g. Retail trade (each building shall be less than 6,000 square feet gross floor area,
all uses inclusive):
(1) Antiques. (5932)
(2) Apparel an accessories. (56)
(3) Books and stationery. (5942/5943)
(4) Cameras and photographic supplies. (5946)
(5) Drugs and proprietary. (5912)
(6) Eating places. (5812)
(7) Florists. (5992)
(8) Food stores. (54)
(9) Gifts, novelties, and souvenirs. (5947)
(10) Hobby, toy and game shops. (5945)
(11) Household appliances. (572)
(12) Jewelry. (5944)
(13) Newspapers and magazines. (5994)
(14) Optical goods. (5995)
(15) Nurseries, lawn and garden supplies. (526)
(16) Radios, TV's, consumer electronics and music supplies. (573)
(17) Sporting goods and bicycles. (5941)
(18) Tobacco products. (5993)
h. Video tape rental. (784)
i. Low THC and medical marijuana dispensing facility. The facility may not be
located within five hundred (500) feet of the real property that comprises a
public or private elementary school, middle school, or secondary school.
3. Lot Size Requirements. Lot size requirements shall be in accordance with Section
7.04.00.
4. Dimensional Regulations. Dimensional requirements shall be in accordance with
Section 7.04.00.
5. Off-street Parking and Loading Requirements. Off-street parking and loading
requirements are subject to Section 7.06.00.
6. Landscaping Requirements. Landscaping requirements are subject to Section 7.09.00.
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Conditional Uses:
a. Car washes (self service only) -subject to the provisions of Section 7.10.22. (999)
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rr. Postal services. (43)
ss. Recreation facilities. (999)
tt. Repair services. (76)
uu. Retail trade -indoor display and sales only, except as provided in Section 7.00.00.
(999)
vv. Social Services:
(1) Individual and family social services. (832/839)
(2) Child care services. (835)
(3) Job training and vocational rehabilitation services. (833)
ww. Travel agencies. (4724)
xx. Veterinary services. (074)
yy. Low THC and medical marijuana dispensing facility. The facility may not be
located within five hundred (500) feet of the real property that comprises a
public or private elementary school, middle school, or secondary school.
3. Lot Size Requirements. Lot size requirements shall be in accordance with Section
7.04.00.
4. Dimensional Regulations. Dimensional requirements shall be in accordance with
Section 7.04.00.
5. Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements. Off-street parking and loading
requirements are subject to Section 7.06.00.
6. Landscaping Requirements. Landscaping requirements are subject to Section 7.09.00.
7. Conditional Uses:
a. Adult establishments subject to requirements of Section 7.10.10. (999)
b. Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) - free-standing. (5813)
C. Disinfecting and pest control services. (7342)
d. Amusement parks. (7996)
e. Go-cart tracks. (7999)
f. Hotels and motels. (701)
g. Household goods warehousing and storage -mini -warehouses. (999)
h. Marina - recreational boats only. (4493)
i. Motor vehicle repair services - body repair. (753)
j. Sporting and recreational camps. (7032)
k. Retail trade:
(1) Liquor stores. (592)
1. Stadiums, arenas, and race tracks. (794)
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m. Telecommunication towers - subject to the standards of Section 7.10.23. (999)
8. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses are subject to the requirements of Section 8.00.00,
and include the following:
a. Drinking places (alcoholic beverages as an accessory use to a restaurant and/or
civic, social, and fraternal organizations).
b. One (1) single-family dwelling unit contained within the commercial building,
or a detached single-family dwelling or mobile home, (for on-site security
purposes).
C. Retail trade:
(1) Undistilled alcoholic beverages (accessory to retail sale of food).
d. Solar energy systems, subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.28.
T. IL INDUSTRIAL, LIGHT.
1. Purpose. The purpose of this district is to provide and protect an environment
suitable for light manufacturing, wholesale, and warehousing activities that do not
impose undesirable noise, vibration, odor, dust, or other offensive effects on the
surrounding are, together with such other uses as may be necessary to and
compatible with light industrial surroundings. The number in "( )" following each
identified use corresponds to the SIC Code reference described in Section 3.01.02(B).
The number 999 applies to a use not defined under the SIC Code but may be further
defined in Section 2.00.00 of this Code.
2. Permitted Uses:
a. Business services. (73)
b. Communications - including telecommunication towers - subject to the standards
of Section 7.10.23. (48)
C. Construction services:
(1) Building construction - general contractors. (15)
(2) Other construction - general contractors. (16)
(3) Construction - special trade contractors. (17)
d. Engineering, architectural and surveying services. (871)
e. Commercial fishing. (091)
f. Laundry, cleaning and garment services. (721)
g. Local and suburban transit. (41)
h. Manufacturing:
(1) Food and kindred products. (20)
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C. Use of Native and Drought Resistant Plants: Wherever feasible and
environmentally beneficial, landscape designs should feature native and/or
drought -tolerant plant species, especially in areas adjacent to existing native
vegetation, to take advantage of the unique natural character and diversity of
the region, and the adaptability of native plants to local environmental
conditions. Where feasible, the re-establishment of native habitats should be
incorporated into the landscape design. In the same manner, landscape designs
are encouraged to utilize drought tolerant plant materials to the maximum
extent feasible. The use of drought tolerant plants should enrich the existing
landscape character, conserve water and energy, and provide as pleasant and
varied a visual appearance as plants that require more water.
The Board of County Commissioners may condition the approval of any resort with
more stringent or restrictive landscape requirements in order to ensure compat-
ibility with surrounding land uses.
6. Sign Requirements: Site signage shall be consistent with the provisions of Section
9.01.01(E). A preliminary site signage plan shall be required as part of the site plan
review process of all resorts developed under of the CR zoning district.
Site signage for a resort shall be in keeping with the resort's character, architecture
and signature amenity or anchor attribute, both in scale and design. The scale and
design of the sign shall also be appropriate to the surrounding area in which the
resort is located. The Board of County Commissioners may condition the approval of
any resort with more stringent or restrictive signage requirements in order to ensure
compatibility with surrounding land uses and the speed limit of the road or roads
which the sign(s) faces.
7. Conditional Uses:
a. Telecommunication towers — subject to the standards of Section 7.10.23.
8. Accessory Uses: Accessory uses are subject to the requirements of Section 8.00.00,
and include the following:
a. Solar energy systems, subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.28.
(Ord. No. 10-026, Pt. A, 9-7-2010; Ord. No. 10-034, Pt. A, 11-9-2010; Ord. No. 11-015, Pt. A,
4-19-2011; Ord. No. 11-021, Pt. A, 8-2-2011; Ord. No. 11-017, Pt. A, 6-21-2011; Ord. No.
11-002, § 4, 12-6-2011; Ord. No. 12-004, § A, 2-7-2012; Ord. No. 12-013, Pt. A, 12-4-2012;
Ord. No. 13-007, § A, 3-5-2013; Ord. No. 15-002, Pt. A, 4-7-2015; Ord. No. 17-005, Pt. A,
5-16-2017; Ord. No. 17-015, § 3, 7-5-2017; Ord. No. 17-023, Pt. A, 12-19-2017)
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CHAPTER IV
SPECIAL DISTRICTS
4.00.00. Airport Overlay Zones.
4.00.01.
Generally.
4.00.02.
Airport Zones.
4.00.03.
Airport Zone Height Limitations.
4.00.04.
Use Restrictions.
4.01.00. Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone.
4.01.01.
Intent.
4.01.02.
Generally.
4.01.03.
Hutchinson Island Building Height Zones.
4.01.04.
Hutchinson Island Height Limitations.
4.01.05.
Exceptions.
4.01.06.
Variances.
4.02.07.
4.02.00. River Park—Community Overlay Zone
4.02.01.
Purpose and Intent.
4.02.02.
River Park Community Overlay Zone Established.
4.02.03.
Uses, Rezoning and Land Development Applications.
4.02.04.
Performance Standards.
4.02.05.
Use Limitations.
4.02.06.
Eating and Drinking Places; Gasoline and Other Fuel Sales Services.
4.02.07.
Live/Work Units.
4.03.00. Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
4.03.01. Purpose and Intent.
4.03.02. Research and Education Park Overlay Zone Established.
4.03.03. Limitations on Land Use Applications.
4.03.04. Performance Standards.
4.03.05. Research and Education Park Overlay Zone Use Limitations.
4.04.00. TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
4.04.01.
Purpose and Intent.
4.04.02.
Essential TVC Concepts.
4.04.03.
Overview of TVC Approval Processes.
4.04.04.
TVC Specific Standards.
4.04.05.
Transfer of Development Rights Program.
4.04.06.
Definitions.
4.04.07.
Performance Monitoring.
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4.05.00. St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay Zone
4.05.01. Purpose and Intent.
4.05.02. Specific Definitions Applicable to the Rural Land Stewardship Area (RLSA)
Overlay Zone.
4.05.03. Establishment of RLSA Overlay Zone.
4.05.04. Land Uses Allowed in the RLSA Overlay Zone.
4.05.05. Stewardship Credits.
4.05.06. Lands within the RLSA Overlay Zone prior to SSA or SRA Designation.
4.05.07. SSA Designation.
4.05.08. SRA Designation.
4.06.00--4.10.00. Reserved.
4.11.00. Historic Preservation.
4.11.01. Changes to Historic Structures or Sites.
4.12.00. Jenkins Road Area Plan Special District
4.12.01. Purpose.
4.12.02. Area Affected.
4.12.03. Road and Trail System.
4.12.04-4.12.09. Reserved.
4.12.10. Right -of -Way Dedication Requirements.
4.12.11. Conflicts with other Sections or Chapters.
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4.01.04. Hutchinson Island Height Limitations.
Except as otherwise provided in this Code, no structure shall be erected or altered in
excess of the applicable height limit herein established for such zone. Such applicable height
limitations are hereby established for each of the following zones:
A. Hutchinson Island—Zone A. The maximum building height shall not exceed 125 feet.
B. Hutchinson Island—Zone B. The maximum building height shall not exceed 35 feet.
4.01.05. Exceptions.
The following structures are not subject to the provisions of this Section:
A. Any lawfully approved and valid site plan recognized under Section 1.03.03 of this
Code, pursuant to Vested Rights determination, as described in Section 11.09.00 of
this Code.
B. Communication towers/sirens erected by or for a duly authorized public safety
activity.
C. Electrical, telephone, cable tv/radio or similar communications transmission poles.
D. Street lights and/or traffic control/surveillance devices.
E. Telecommunication Towers and antenna that are located in Hutchinson Island Zone
A as described in Section 4.01.03, subject to the standards of Section 7.10.23. The
location for any such located tower or antenna shall be as a co -located facility on an
existing building or structure in the Hutchinson Island Zone A. The maximum
height of any antenna or tower so located shall be 1/10 of the building height or
fifteen (15) feet above the main roof surface of the building, whichever is lower. All
towers or antennas shall be located so as not to be visible from the ground.
F. Roads or Bridges.
4.01.06. Variances.
A. Any request for variance from the maximum height regulations set forth in this section
shall be reviewed in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.01.00.
B. No variance from the provisions of this section shall be granted that would permit any
building to have a height in excess of one hundred twenty-five (125) feet.
4.02.00. RIVER PARK—COMMUNITY OVERLAY ZONE
4.02.01. Purpose and Intent.
A. It is the purpose and intent of this section to recognize changing conditions along
Prima Vista Boulevard, in the River Park Subdivision, between South US #1 (SR 5) and
Airoso Boulevard and to establish supplemental performance standards of review by which
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to evaluate all applications for change in zoning, use and development to nonresidential use
which may be filed for parcels in the River Park subdivision area as further described in this
Section.
B. This section is intended to encourage and provide for a logical and orderly transition
from residential to nonresidential zoning, use and development where appropriate, and to
protect those parcels which remain residential from the impacts of the nonresidential
development.
C. Nothing in this Section is intended to supersede the minimum standards of review for
any amendment to the Official Zoning Atlas of St. Lucie County as set forth in Section
11.06.03 of this Code.
(Ord. No. 2018-09, Pt. A, 6-5-2018)
4.02.02. River Park Community Overlay Zone Established.
A. The River Park Community Overlay Zone shall consist of all those parcels of land lying
in the following subdivisions as recorded in the official land records of St. Lucie County,
Florida, and which share a common property line with the right-of-way for Prima Vista
Boulevard and/or and are contiguous to a parcel of land that shares a common property line
with the right-of-way for Prima Vista Boulevard:
SUBDIVISION NAME
PLAT BOOK
PAGE
RIVER PARK - UNIT 3
10
80
RIVER PARK - UNIT 4
11
9
RIVER PARK - UNIT 5
11
31
RIVER PARK - UNIT 6
12
26
RIVER PARK - UNIT 10
14
29
SUBDIV. OF PART OF TRACT "E", RIVER PARK -
UNIT 3
12
22
Except that those properties in the above subdivisions that were classified with a COM
(Commercial) Future Land Use designation on August 6, 1996, the date of establishment of
these regulations, shall not be included in the River Park Overlay Zone.
Figure 4-8 generally depicts the limits of the above described overlay zone.
B. The River Park Community Overlay Zone, created in Part A above, shall be divided
into two (2) subzones, generally described as follows:
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1.) Intersection Zone. The Intersection Zone(s) shall be centered at the following
locations:
a.) Prima Vista Boulevard and South US #1
b.) Prima Vista Boulevard and Floresta Drive
c.) Prima Vista Boulevard and Airoso Boulevard
The Intersection Zone shall consist of those properties which share a common
property line with the right-of-way for Prima Vista Boulevard and/or are contiguous
to a parcel of land, under the common ownership or control of the same person, party
or interest group, that shares a common property line with the right-of-way for
Prima Vista Boulevard.
In no instance shall an Intersection Zone extend more than five hundred (500) feet
(approximately five (5) platted lots) from the center of any of the intersections
identified above.
2.) Mid -Block Zone. The Mid -Block Zone(s) shall consist of those properties which share
a common property line with the right-of-way for Prima Vista Boulevard and/or are
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contiguous to a parcel of land, under the common ownership or control of the same
person, party or interest group, that shares a common property line with the
right-of-way for Prima Vista Boulevard.
(Ord. No. 2018-09, Pt. A, 6-5-2018)
4.02.03. Uses, Rezoning and Land Development Applications.
A. Uses. Authorized uses within the Overlay Zone that may be pursued within any
existing zoning district without a change in zoning shall include: permitted, conditional and
accessory uses in the RS -4 (Residential, Single Family) and CO (Commercial, Office) Zoning
Districts, except eating and drinking establishments. All permitted and accessory uses shall
be allowed upon issuance of a Zoning Compliance Certificate and a determination of
compliance with this section and applicable sections of the Land Development Code.
Conditional Uses within the CO and RS -4 Zoning Districts shall require approval of a
Conditional Use Permit as set forth in LDC Section 11.07.00.
B. Dimensional Requirements. All dimensional requirements, including minimum lot size
and yard requirements, shall follow the existing or proposed zoning district provisions as set
forth in Section 7.04.01 of this Code, except for non-residential uses in residential zoning
districts that are authorized in this section. The conversion of an existing residential
building to a use permitted in the CO Zoning District through an application for Zoning
Compliance, or any new commercial office development, within a residential zoning district
shall continue to follow the dimensional standards of the residential zoning district.
C. Two Lots Deep. An application for conversion from residential to a CO Zoning District
use, and new commercial office development, is intended primarily for lots that share a
common property line with the right-of-way for Prima Vista Boulevard. Such application
that also includes property contiguous to a parcel of land that shares a common property line
with the right-of-way for Prima Vista Boulevard but does not itself have frontage along
Prima Vista Boulevard, shall be required to obtain a conditional use permit as set forth in
[Section] 11.07.00. The conditional use application shall be accompanied by a concept plan
providing the information in Section 11.02.09 of this Code and any other information deemed
necessary for a full review of the project impacts.
D. Rezoning. All applications for change in zoning in the River Park Community Overlay
Zone shall be consistent with Table 4-8 below. No change in zoning to a non-residential
zoning designation shall be granted for any parcel of less than twenty thousand (20,000)
square feet (approximately two (2) lots as shown on the recorded plats for the River Park s/d).
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TABLE 4-8
RIVER PARK COMMUNITY OVERLAY ZONE REZONING OPTIONS
INTERSECTION ZONES
MID -BLOCK ZONES
PNRD (CO and CN uses only, except as
Comprehensive Plan Amendment to Com -
specified in 4.02.05)
mercial (COM) required for any change in
zoning to a nonresidential zoning category,
including PNRD
(Ord. No. 2018-09, Pt. A, 6-5-2018)
4.02.04. Performance Standards.
The following performance standards are applicable to any conversion of an existing
residential building to a CO (Commercial, Office) use through an application for Zoning
Compliance per Section 11.05.00, or any new commercial office development within the
River Park Community Overlay Zone. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Overlay, all
conversions to commercial uses shall comply with applicable building code and accessibility
requirements.
A. Building Height: Maximum height for any structure shall be twenty-five (25) feet for
any non-residential use. Upon approval of a conditional use permit the building height may
be increased to twenty-eight (28) feet.
B. Maximum Building Size: New commercial development, or redevelopment of a
residential building for commercial use, permitted under existing residential zoning shall
not exceed six thousand (6,000) square feet in total size.
C. Access Management: In addition to the minimum standards set forth in Section 7.05.06
of this Code, the following driveway locations standards shall apply:
1.) Number of Driveway Connections: No more than one (1) driveway per street frontage
under common ownership shall be permitted.
2.) Distance from Intersections: The nearest edge of any driveway shall be located no
closer than one hundred fifty (150) feet from the centerline of any perpendicular
intersecting street.
3.) This district shall maximize efficiency of automobile access by prohibiting the
creation of new curb cuts on already developed parcels on Prima Vista Boulevard for
non-residential use, and requiring existing curb cuts to be combined into joint -access
driveways and/or eliminated when parcels are combined and redeveloped in
conformance with this Overlay.
D. Development Prior to Abutting Property: In the event that a building site is converted
or developed for non-residential use before an abutting property is converted, developed or
redeveloped, the site shall be designed to insure that its parking, access, and circulation may
be easily modified to create a unified system with adjacent parcels at a later date.
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E. Existing Abutting Uses: When a property applying for conversion, development or
redevelopment abuts an existing property that has been developed for a non-residential use
using the guidelines herein, it shall be designed to connect to the abutting parking, access
and circulation areas to create a unified system unless the County Administrator's designee
finds that this would be impractical.
F. Easements Required to be Dedicated: When the joint -access provisions are utilized by
the owner of property applying for conversion, development or redevelopment of a
non-residential use, the use shall not be approved unless the property owner grants an
easement for cross access to and from abutting properties. Such easement shall be recorded
by the property owner in the public records of St. Lucie County and constitute a covenant
running with the land.
G. Offstreet Parking and Loading:
1.) Offstreet parking and loading shall meet the minimum requirements of Section
7.06.00 of this Code. Specifically, "off-street parking areas shall be designed so that
motor vehicles can exit without backing into a street." (Section 7.06.02(B)(2)(c)
2.) In order to preserve the residential neighborhood character, the design and location
of parking shall be consistent with the following standards that shall apply when
more than three (3) parking spaces are being provided:
a) Parking stall minimum dimensions may be nine (9) feet by eighteen (18) feet.
b) The driveway area may count towards up to two (2) parking spaces, provided
the length of the driveway meets the minimum stall dimensions as provided in
Section 7.06.02(B)(1), Off -Street Parking and Loading Performance Standards.
c) Bicycle parking may be substituted for one (1) required parking space per
Section 7.05.04(C).
H. Buffering and Landscaping:
1.) Buffering and landscaping shall meet the minimum requirements of Section 7.09.00
of this Code, with the following standards applicable to any non-residential use.
a) Landscaped buffers and screening between single-family residential and non-
residential uses shall be required consistent with Section 7.09.04(E), except the
wall or fence required in such buffers shall be exempt from side yards.
b) The rear landscaped buffers and screening required pursuant to Section
7.09.04(E) may be waived by the Environmental Resources Director according
to the procedure outlined in that section.
2.) The area between the building, off-street parking area or other vehicular use area
abutting a street or road right-of-way, shall be landscaped with one (1) street tree for
each forty-five (45) linear feet of abutting right-of-way or major fraction thereof. The
street tree shall not be planted in a utilities right-of-way or a utilities easement and
shall be placed so their canopies shall not interfere with any power line.
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I. Lighting:
1.) All site lighting shall be installed so that no off site areas are directly illuminated.
J. Signs:
1.) A maximum of two (2) signs are permitted per parcel. The maximum square footage
allowable of total signage shall not exceed sixteen (16) square feet, except for a
ground or monument sign. The following signs are permitted:
a) Wall sign.
b) Canopy sign.
c) Projecting sign.
d) One (1) primary monument sign may be provided along Prima Vista Boulevard.
The sign shall not exceed six (6) feet in height or sixteen (16) square feet in total
size. Monument signs shall be located a minimum of ten (10) feet from any
right-of-way and five (5) feet from any adjoining property line.
2.) No sign shall be internally lit; lighting without any visual light spillover is
permitted.
3.) Monument signs shall be landscaped in accordance with Land Development Code
9.02.01(D)(6).
K. Building Design Standards: Overall design for any new and renovated buildings for a
commercial use shall fit with the character of the residential neighborhood.
1.) Windows, Doors and Entrances:
a) Windows shall not be covered with any type of material that is used for
advertisement.
b) Clear glass windows (eighty-eight percent (88%) light transmission or more) are
required.
c) Buildings must have a primary entrance door facing a public sidewalk and/or
public road.
2.) Building Design: Any new construction, modification, alteration, renovations or
refurbishment of an existing building within the Overlay district is subject to these
general design guidelines:
a) The following primary fagade features are discouraged:
i. Large, blank, unarticulated walls.
ii. Siding comprised of the following materials: corrugated metal, corrugated
fiberglass, plastic, and plywood.
iii. Unpainted concrete block.
iv. Imitation rockwork veneer.
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b) The following architectural and site elements are encouraged:
i. Building articulation features such as Bahama shutters, entry porches,
and parapets over doors.
ii. Civic features such as an arcade/loggia, canopy, portico/porte-cochere, or
pedestrian courtyard or plaza.
iii. Landscape features such as an arbor, pergola, or stone or stamped concrete
pavement at project entry, drop-off, or pedestrian crossing.
(Ord. No. 2018-09, Pt. A, 6-5-2018)
4.02.05. Use Limitations.
The following uses shall be specifically prohibited, regardless of zoning classification,
within the River Park Community Overlay Zone.
A. Drive-in facilities.
(Ord. No. 2016-19, Pt. A, 12-20-2016; Ord. No. 2018-09, Pt. A, 6-5-2018)
4.02.06. Eating and Drinking Places; Gasoline and Other Fuel Sales Services.
These uses shall be allowed at intersection zones with the required PNRD zoning.
(Ord. No. 2016-19, Pt. A, 12-20-2016; Ord. No. 2018-09, Pt. A, 6-5-2018)
4.02.07. Live/Work Units.
Within this overlay district, live/work units shall be a considered an accessory use to all
permitted or conditional nonresidential uses. "Live/work unit" or "live/work space" means a
building or spaces within a building used jointly for commercial and residential purposes
where the residential use of the space is secondary or accessory to the primary use as a place
of work.
(Ord. No. 2018-09, Pt. A, 6-5-2018)
4.03.00. RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PARK—OVERLAY ZONE
4.03.01. Purpose and Intent.
A. It is the purpose of this Section to protect, promote and strengthen the research,
education and development of agriculture and the life sciences in the area generally
described as lying between Orange Avenue and State Route 70, and west of Kings Highway
to the North St. Lucie Water Control District Canal No. 52.
B. It is the intent of this Section to provide a district where established and new
education, research and scientific institutions, technological entrepreneurial ventures, and
support services for these uses can develop and prosper. The district sets forth uses and
standards that will protect, create and promote a community of scientific excellence and
innovative education and technology by providing an atmosphere conducive to these
activities.
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C. This Section indicates the permitted, conditional and accessory uses and performance
standards that will be utilized when reviewing applications for a change in zoning, future
land use designation, site plan or building permit in the area further described in this
Section.
4.03.02. Research and Education Park Overlay Zone Established.
A. The Research and Education Park Overlay Zone shall consist of all those parcels of
land lying in the boundaries of the Research and Education Overlay Zone Map as shown
below and on the County's Official Zoning Atlas:
111
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Overlay Zone
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B. The Research and Education Park Overlay Zone, created in Paragraph A above is
generally described as follows:
Lands dedicated to a Research and Education Park consisting of public and private research
and education institutions and business support facilities that further the intent of the
Research and Education Park Overlay Zone.
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CHAPTER VI
RESOURCE PROTECTION STANDARDS
6.00.00. Vegetation Protection and Preservation
6.00.01. Intent.
6.00.02. Relationship to Other Sections of this Code.
6.00.03. Notice of Vegetation Removal Required.
6.00.04. Exemptions.
6.00.05. Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal Permit.
6.01.00. Mangrove Protection
6.01.01. Reference to State Regulation and Authority.
6.02.00. Environmentally Sensitive Lands
6.02.01. Coastal Area Protection.
6.02.02. Riverine Shoreline Protection.
6.02.03. Wetlands Protection.
6.02.04. Regulation of Motorized Vehicles in Environmentally Sensitive Areas.
6.05.00. Floodplain Management
6.05.01. General.
6.05.02. Applicability.
6.05.03. Duties and powers of the Floodplain Administrator.
6.05.04. Permits.
6.05.05. Site plans and construction documents.
6.05.06. Inspections.
6.05.07. Variances and appeals.
6.05.08. Violations.
6.05.09. Flood resistant development.
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6.03.00. Wellfield Protection
6.03.01.
Generally.
6.03.02.
Zone of Protection Maps.
6.03.03.
Prohibited Activities.
6.03.04.
Protection of Future Public Water Supply Well Sites.
6.03.05.
Exemptions.
6.03.06.
Special Exemptions.
6.03.07.
Enforcement and Penalties.
6.04.00. Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
6.04.01.
Native Upland Habitat Protection.
6.04.02.
Sea Turtle Protection.
6.04.03.
Manatee Protection (Reserved).
6.05.00. Floodplain Management
6.05.01. General.
6.05.02. Applicability.
6.05.03. Duties and powers of the Floodplain Administrator.
6.05.04. Permits.
6.05.05. Site plans and construction documents.
6.05.06. Inspections.
6.05.07. Variances and appeals.
6.05.08. Violations.
6.05.09. Flood resistant development.
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6.06.00. Mining
6.06.01. Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining Permit.
6.06.02. Extraction Incidental to Development Activities.
6.06.03. Excavation or Mining Resulting in the Creation of a Water Body.
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C. Devices used for removing debris from the beach should be designed and/or
operated such that they do not penetrate beach sediments by more than two (2)
inches.
4. Sea Turtle Protection Plan (STPP) Exemption: A STPP may not be required for
mechanical beach cleaning activities if it is demonstrated to the Growth Manage-
ment Director that the proposed operation(s) will have no adverse effects on the
normal development and viability of eggs and hatchlings in sea turtle nests and
habitats, pursuant to the following procedures:
a. The Growth Management Director shall be notified in writing by the applicant
that the protective/mitigative measures set out in Section 6.04.02(G)(6) shall
not be required as part of the State permit.
b. The Growth Management Director shall grant an exemption from the STPP
upon consultation with the State and receipt of a copy of the State permit prior
to commencement of the mechanical beach cleaning activities.
5. Coordination of Beach Cleaning Operations With State -Sanctioned Scientific Stud-
ies: All beach cleaning operations shall be coordinated through the State to ensure
that these operations do not interfere with state -sanctioned scientific studies of sea
turtle nesting activities.
6.04.03. Manatee Protection (Reserved).
6.05.00. FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT*
6.05.01. General.
A. Title. These regulations shall be known as the Floodplain Management Ordinance of
St. Lucie County, hereinafter referred to as "this ordinance."
B. Scope. The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to all development that is wholly
within or partially within any flood hazard area, including but not limited to the subdivision
of land; filling, grading, and other site improvements and utility installations; construction,
alteration, remodeling, enlargement, improvement, replacement, repair, relocation or demoli-
tion of buildings, structures, and facilities that are exempt from the Florida Building Code;
placement, installation, or replacement of manufactured homes and manufactured build-
ings; installation or replacement of tanks; placement of recreational vehicles; installation of
swimming pools; and any other development.
*Editor's note—Ord. No. 18-001, Pt. A adopted January 23, 2018, repealed the former
6.05.00, §§ 6.05.01-6.05.07, and enacted a 6.05.00 as set out herein. The former 6.05.00
pertained to flood damage prevention and derived from Ord. No. 11-031, adopted December
2, 2011 and Ord. No. 12-010, adopted February 14, 2012.
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C. Intent. The purposes of this ordinance and the flood load and flood resistant
construction requirements of the Florida Building Code are to establish minimum require-
ments to safeguard the public health, safety, and general welfare and to minimize public and
private losses due to flooding through regulation of development in flood hazard areas to:
1. Minimize unnecessary disruption of commerce, access and public service during
times of flooding;
2. Require the use of appropriate construction practices in order to prevent or minimize
future flood damage;
3. Manage filling, grading, dredging, mining, paving, excavation, drilling operations,
storage of equipment or materials, and other development which may increase flood
damage or erosion potential;
4. Manage the alteration of flood hazard areas, watercourses, and shorelines to
minimize the impact of development on the natural and beneficial functions of the
floodplain;
5. Minimize damage to public and private facilities and utilities;
6. Help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the sound use and development of
flood hazard areas;
7. Minimize the need for future expenditure of public funds for flood control projects
and response to and recovery from flood events; and
8. Meet the requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program for community
participation as set forth in Title 44 Code of Federal Regulations, Section 59.22.
D. Coordination with the Florida Building Code. This ordinance is intended to be
administered and enforced in conjunction with the Florida Building Code. Where cited,
ASCE 24 refers to the edition of the standard that is referenced by the Florida Building
Code.
E. Warning. The degree of flood protection required by this ordinance and the Florida
Building Code, as amended by this community, is considered the minimum reasonable for
regulatory purposes and is based on scientific and engineering considerations. Larger floods
can and will occur. Flood heights may be increased by man-made or natural causes. This
ordinance does not imply that land outside of mapped special flood hazard areas, or that uses
permitted within such flood hazard areas, will be free from flooding or flood damage. The
flood hazard areas and base flood elevations contained in the Flood Insurance Study and
shown on Flood Insurance Rate Maps and the requirements of Title 44 Code of Federal
Regulations, Sections 59 and 60 may be revised by the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, requiring this community to revise these regulations to remain eligible for
participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. No guaranty of vested use, existing
use, or future use is implied or expressed by compliance with this ordinance.
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F. Disclaimer of Liability. This ordinance shall not create liability on the part of St. Lucie
County Board of County Commissioners of St. Lucie County or by any officer or employee
thereof for any flood damage that results from reliance on this ordinance or any administra-
tive decision lawfully made thereunder.
(Ord. No. 18-001, Pt. A, 1-23-2018)
6.05.02. Applicability.
A. General. Where there is a conflict between a general requirement and a specific
requirement, the specific requirement shall be applicable.
B. Areas to Which this Ordinance Applies. This ordinance shall apply to all flood hazard
areas within St. Lucie County, as established in Section 6.05.02(C) of this ordinance.
C. Basis for Establishing Flood Hazard Areas. The Flood Insurance Study for St. Lucie
County, Florida and Incorporated Areas dated February 16, 2012, and all subsequent
amendments and revisions, and the accompanying Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM), and
all subsequent amendments and revisions to such maps, are adopted by reference as a part
of this ordinance and shall serve as the minimum basis for establishing flood hazard areas.
Studies and maps that establish flood hazard areas are on file at the Planning and
Development Department located at 2300 Virginia Avenue Fort Pierce, FL 34982.
D. Submission of Additional Data to Establish Flood Hazard Areas. To establish flood
hazard areas and base flood elevations, pursuant to Section 6.05.05 of this ordinance the
Floodplain Administrator may require submission of additional data. Where field surveyed
topography prepared by a Florida licensed professional surveyor or digital topography
accepted by the community indicates that ground elevations:
1. Are below the closest applicable base flood elevation, even in areas not delineated as
a special flood hazard area on a FIRM, the area shall be considered as flood hazard
area and subject to the requirements of this ordinance and, as applicable, the
requirements of the Florida Building Code.
2. Are above the closest applicable base flood elevation, the area shall be regulated as
special flood hazard area unless the applicant obtains a Letter of Map Change that
removes the area from the special flood hazard area.
E. Other Laws. The provisions of this ordinance shall not be deemed to nullify any
provisions of local, state or federal law.
F. Abrogation and Greater Restrictions. This ordinance supersedes any ordinance in effect
for management of development in flood hazard areas. However, it is not intended to repeal
or abrogate any existing ordinances including but not limited to land development
regulations, zoning ordinances, stormwater management regulations, or the Florida Build-
ing Code. In the event of a conflict between this ordinance and any other ordinance, the more
restrictive shall govern. This ordinance shall not impair any deed restriction, covenant or
easement, but any land that is subject to such interests shall also be governed by this
ordinance.
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G. Interpretation. In the interpretation and application of this ordinance, all provisions
shall be:
1. Considered as minimum requirements;
2. Liberally construed in favor of the governing body; and
3. Deemed neither to limit nor repeal any other powers granted under state statutes.
(Ord. No. 18-001, Pt. A, 1-23-2018)
6.05.03. Duties and powers of the Floodplain Administrator.
A. Designation. The Planning and Development Director is designated as the Floodplain
Administrator. The Floodplain Administrator may delegate performance of certain duties to
other employees.
B. General. The Floodplain Administrator is authorized and directed to administer and
enforce the provisions of this ordinance. The Floodplain Administrator shall have the
authority to render interpretations of this ordinance consistent with the intent and purpose
of this ordinance and may establish policies and procedures in order to clarify the application
of its provisions. Such interpretations, policies, and procedures shall not have the effect of
waiving requirements specifically provided in this ordinance without the granting of a
variance pursuant to Section 6.05.07 of this ordinance.
C. Applications and Permits. The Floodplain Administrator, in coordination with other
pertinent offices of the community, shall:
1. Review applications and plans to determine whether proposed new development will
be located in flood hazard areas;
2. Review applications for modification of any existing development in flood hazard
areas for compliance with the requirements of this ordinance;
3. Interpret flood hazard area boundaries where such interpretation is necessary to
determine the exact location of boundaries; a person contesting the determination
shall have the opportunity to appeal the interpretation;
4. Provide available flood elevation and flood hazard information;
5. Determine whether additional flood hazard data shall be obtained from other sources
or shall be developed by an applicant;
6. Review applications to determine whether proposed development will be reasonably
safe from flooding;
7. Issue floodplain development permits or approvals for development other than
buildings and structures that are subject to the Florida Building Code, including
buildings, structures and facilities exempt from the Florida Building Code, when
compliance with this ordinance is demonstrated, or disapprove the same in the event
of noncompliance; and
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8. Coordinate with and provide comments to the Building Official to assure that
applications, plan reviews, and inspections for buildings and structures in flood
hazard areas comply with the applicable provisions of this ordinance.
D. Substantial Improvement and Substantial Damage Determinations. For applications
for building permits to improve buildings and structures, including alterations, movement,
enlargement, replacement, repair, change of occupancy, additions, rehabilitations, renova-
tions, substantial improvements, repairs of substantial damage, and any other improvement
of or work on such buildings and structures, the Floodplain Administrator, in coordination
with the Building Official, shall:
1. Estimate the market value, or require the applicant to obtain an appraisal of the
market value prepared by a qualified independent appraiser, of the building or
structure before the start of construction of the proposed work; in the case of repair,
the market value of the building or structure shall be the market value before the
damage occurred and before any repairs are made;
2. Compare the cost to perform the improvement, the cost to repair a damaged building
to its pre -damaged condition, or the combined costs of improvements and repairs, if
applicable, to the market value of the building or structure;
3. Determine and document whether the proposed work constitutes substantial
improvement or repair of substantial damage; and
4. Notify the applicant if it is determined that the work constitutes substantial
improvement or repair of substantial damage and that compliance with the flood
resistant construction requirements of the Florida Building Code and this ordinance
is required.
E. Modifications of the Strict Application of the Requirements of the Florida Building
Code. The Floodplain Administrator shall review requests submitted to the Building
Official that seek approval to modify the strict application of the flood load and flood
resistant construction requirements of the Florida Building Code to determine
whether such requests require the granting of a variance pursuant to Section 6.05.07
of this ordinance.
F. Notices and Orders. The Floodplain Administrator shall coordinate with appropriate
local agencies for the issuance of all necessary notices or orders to ensure compliance with
this ordinance.
G. Inspections. The Floodplain Administrator shall make the required inspections as
specified in Section 6.05.06 of this ordinance for development that is not subject to the
Florida Building Code, including buildings, structures and facilities exempt from the Florida
Building Code. The Floodplain Administrator shall inspect flood hazard areas to determine
if development is undertaken without issuance of a permit.
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H. Other Duties of the Floodplain Administrator. The Floodplain Administrator shall
have other duties, including but not limited to:
1. Establish, in coordination with the Building Official, procedures for administering
and documenting determinations of substantial improvement and substantial
damage made pursuant to Section 6.05.03(D) of this ordinance;
2. Require that applicants proposing alteration of a watercourse notify adjacent
communities and the Florida Division of Emergency Management, State Floodplain
Management Office, and submit copies of such notifications to the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA);
3. Require applicants who submit hydrologic and hydraulic engineering analyses to
support permit applications to submit to FEMA the data and information necessary
to maintain the Flood Insurance Rate Maps if the analyses propose to change base
flood elevations, flood hazard area boundaries, or floodway designations; such
submissions shall be made within six (6) months of such data becoming available;
4. Review required design certifications and documentation of elevations specified by
this ordinance and the Florida Building Code to determine that such certifications
and documentations are complete;
5. Notify the Federal Emergency Management Agency when the corporate boundaries
of St. Lucie County are modified; and
6. Advise applicants for new buildings and structures, including substantial improve-
ments, that are located in any unit of the Coastal Barrier Resources System
established by the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (Pub. L. 97-348) and the Coastal
Barrier Improvement Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-591) that federal flood insurance is
not available on such construction; areas subject to this limitation are identified on
Flood Insurance Rate Maps as "Coastal Barrier Resource System Areas" and
"Otherwise Protected Areas."
I. Floodplain Management Records. Regardless of any limitation on the period required
for retention of public records, the Floodplain Administrator shall maintain and permanently
keep and make available for public inspection all records that are necessary for the
administration of this ordinance and the flood resistant construction requirements of the
Florida Building Code, including Flood Insurance Rate Maps; Letters of Map Change;
records of issuance of permits and denial of permits; determinations of whether proposed
work constitutes substantial improvement or repair of substantial damage; required design
certifications and documentation of elevations specified by the Florida Building Code and
this ordinance; notifications to adjacent communities, FEMA, and the state related to
alterations of watercourses; assurances that the flood carrying capacity of altered watercourses
will be maintained; documentation related to appeals and variances, including justification
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for issuance or denial; and records of enforcement actions taken pursuant to this ordinance
and the flood resistant construction requirements of the Florida Building Code. These
records shall be available for public inspection at Planning and Development Department.
(Ord. No. 18-001, Pt. A, 1-23-2018)
6.05.04. Permits.
A. Permits Required. Any owner or owner's authorized agent (hereinafter "applicant")
who intends to undertake any development activity within the scope of this ordinance,
including buildings, structures and facilities exempt from the Florida Building Code, which
is wholly within or partially within any flood hazard area shall first make application to the
Floodplain Administrator, and the Building Official if applicable, and shall obtain the
required permit(s) and approval(s). No such permit or approval shall be issued until
compliance with the requirements of this ordinance and all other applicable codes and
regulations has been satisfied.
B. Floodplain Development Permits or Approvals. Floodplain development permits or
approvals shall be issued pursuant to this ordinance for any development activities not
subject to the requirements of the Florida Building Code, including buildings, structures and
facilities exempt from the Florida Building Code. Depending on the nature and extent of
proposed development that includes a building or structure, the Floodplain Administrator
may determine that a floodplain development permit or approval is required in addition to a
building permit.
C. Buildings, Structures and Facilities Exempt from the Florida Building Code. Pursuant
to the requirements of federal regulation for participation in the National Flood Insurance
Program (44 C.F.R. Sections 59 and 60), floodplain development permits or approvals shall
be required for the following buildings, structures and facilities that are exempt from the
Florida Building Code and any further exemptions provided by law, which are subject to the
requirements of this ordinance:
1. Railroads and ancillary facilities associated with the railroad.
2. Nonresidential farm buildings on farms, as provided in F.S. § 604.50.
3. Temporary buildings or sheds used exclusively for construction purposes.
4. Mobile or modular structures used as temporary offices.
5. Those structures or facilities of electric utilities, as defined in F.S. § 366.02, which
are directly involved in the generation, transmission, or distribution of electricity.
6. Chickees constructed by the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida or the Seminole
Tribe of Florida. As used in this paragraph, the term "chickee" means an open -sided
wooden but that has a thatched roof of palm or palmetto or other traditional
materials, and that does not incorporate any electrical, plumbing, or other non -wood
features.
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7. Family mausoleums not exceeding two hundred fifty (250) square feet in area which
are prefabricated and assembled on site or preassembled and delivered on site and
have walls, roofs, and a floor constructed of granite, marble, or reinforced concrete.
8. Temporary housing provided by the Department of Corrections to any prisoner in the
state correctional system.
9. Structures identified in F.S. § 553.73(10)(k), are not exempt from the Florida
Building Code if such structures are located in flood hazard areas established on
Flood Insurance Rate Maps.
D. Application for a Permit or Approval. To obtain a floodplain development permit or
approval the applicant shall first file an application in writing on a form furnished by the
community. The information provided shall:
1. Identify and describe the development to be covered by the permit or approval.
2. Describe the land on which the proposed development is to be conducted by legal
description, street address or similar description that will readily identify and
definitively locate the site.
3. Indicate the use and occupancy for which the proposed development is intended.
4. Be accompanied by a site plan or construction documents as specified in Section
6.05.05 of this ordinance.
5. State the valuation of the proposed work.
6. Be signed by the applicant or the applicant's authorized agent.
7. Give such other data and information as required by the Floodplain Administrator.
E. Validity of Permit or Approval. The issuance of a floodplain development permit or
approval pursuant to this ordinance shall not be construed to be a permit for, or approval of,
any violation of this ordinance, the Florida Building Codes, or any other ordinance of this
community. The issuance of permits based on submitted applications, construction docu-
ments, and information shall not prevent the Floodplain Administrator from requiring the
correction of errors and omissions.
F. Expiration. A floodplain development permit or approval shall become invalid unless
the work authorized by such permit is commenced within one hundred eighty (180) days
after its issuance, or if the work authorized is suspended or abandoned for a period of one
hundred eighty (180) days after the work commences. Extensions for periods of not more
than one hundred eighty (180) days each shall be requested in writing and justifiable cause
shall be demonstrated.
G. Suspension or Revocation. The Floodplain Administrator is authorized to suspend or
revoke a floodplain development permit or approval if the permit was issued in error, on the
basis of incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete information, or in violation of this ordinance or
any other ordinance, regulation or requirement of this community.
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H. Other Permits Required. Floodplain development permits and building permits shall
include a condition that all other applicable state or federal permits be obtained before
commencement of the permitted development, including but not limited to the following:
1. The South Florida Water Management District; F.S. § 373.036.
2. Florida Department of Health for onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems; F.S.
§ 381.0065 and Chapter 64E-6, F.A.C.
3. Florida Department of Environmental Protection for construction, reconstruction,
changes, or physical activities for shore protection or other activities seaward of the
coastal construction control line; F.S. § 161.141.
4. Florida Department of Environmental Protection for activities subject to the Joint
Coastal Permit; F.S. § 161.055.
5. Florida Department of Environmental Protection for activities that affect wetlands
and alter surface water flows, in conjunction with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers;
Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.
6. Federal permits and approvals.
(Ord. No. 18-001, Pt. A, 1-23-2018)
6.05.05. Site plans and construction documents.
A. Information for Development in Flood Hazard Areas. The site plan or construction
documents for any development subject to the requirements of this ordinance shall be drawn
to scale and shall include, as applicable to the proposed development:
1. Delineation of flood hazard areas, floodway boundaries and flood zone(s), base flood
elevation(s), and ground elevations if necessary for review of the proposed develop-
ment.
2. Where base flood elevations or floodway data are not included on the FIRM or in the
Flood Insurance Study, they shall be established in accordance with Section
6.05.05(B)(2) or (B)(3) of this ordinance.
3. Where the parcel on which the proposed development will take place will have more
than fifty (50) lots or is larger than five (5) acres and the base flood elevations are not
included on the FIRM or in the Flood Insurance Study, such elevations shall be
established in accordance with Section 6.05.05(B)(1) of this ordinance.
4. Location of the proposed activity and proposed structures, and locations of existing
buildings and structures; in coastal high hazard areas, new buildings shall be located
landward of the reach of mean high tide.
5. Location, extent, amount, and proposed final grades of any filling, grading, or
excavation.
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6. Where the placement of fill is proposed, the amount, type, and source of fill material;
compaction specifications; a description of the intended purpose of the fill areas; and
evidence that the proposed fill areas are the minimum necessary to achieve the
intended purpose.
7. Delineation of the Coastal Construction Control Line or notation that the site is
seaward of the coastal construction control line, if applicable.
8. Extent of any proposed alteration of sand dunes or mangrove stands, provided such
alteration is approved by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
9. Existing and proposed alignment of any proposed alteration of a watercourse.
The Floodplain Administrator is authorized to waive the submission of site plans, construc-
tion documents, and other data that are required by this ordinance but that are not required
to be prepared by a registered design professional if it is found that the nature of the
proposed development is such that the review of such submissions is not necessary to
ascertain compliance with this ordinance.
B. Information on Flood Hazard Areas without Base Flood Elevations (Approximate Zone
A). Where flood hazard areas are delineated on the FIRM and base flood elevation data have
not been provided, the Floodplain Administrator shall:
1. Require the applicant to include base flood elevation data prepared in accordance
with currently accepted engineering practices.
2. Obtain, review, and provide to applicants base flood elevation and floodway data
available from a federal or state agency or other source or require the applicant to
obtain and use base flood elevation and floodway data available from a federal or
state agency or other source.
3. Where base flood elevation and floodway data are not available from another source,
where the available data are deemed by the Floodplain Administrator to not
reasonably reflect flooding conditions, or where the available data are known to be
scientifically or technically incorrect or otherwise inadequate:
(a) Require the applicant to include base flood elevation data prepared in accordance
with currently accepted engineering practices; or
(b) Specify that the base flood elevation is three (3) feet above the highest adjacent
grade at the location of the development, provided there is no evidence
indicating flood depths have been or may be greater than three (3) feet.
4. Where the base flood elevation data are to be used to support a Letter of Map Change
from FEMA, advise the applicant that the analyses shall be prepared by a Florida
licensed engineer in a format required by FEMA, and that it shall be the
responsibility of the applicant to satisfy the submittal requirements and pay the
processing fees.
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C. Additional Analyses and Certifications. As applicable to the location and nature of the
proposed development activity, and in addition to the requirements of this section, the
applicant shall have the following analyses signed and sealed by a Florida licensed engineer
for submission with the site plan and construction documents:
1. For development activities proposed to be located in a regulatory floodway, a
floodway encroachment analysis that demonstrates that the encroachment of the
proposed development will not cause any increase in base flood elevations; where the
applicant proposes to undertake development activities that do increase base flood
elevations, the applicant shall submit such analysis to FEMA as specified in Section
6.05.05(D) of this ordinance and shall submit the Conditional Letter of Map Revision,
if issued by FEMA, with the site plan and construction documents.
2. For development activities proposed to be located in a riverine flood hazard area for
which base flood elevations are included in the Flood Insurance Study or on the
FIRM and floodways have not been designated, hydrologic and hydraulic analyses
that demonstrate that the cumulative effect of the proposed development, when
combined with all other existing and anticipated flood hazard area encroachments,
will not increase the base flood elevation more than one (1) foot at any point within
the community. This requirement does not apply in isolated flood hazard areas not
connected to a riverine flood hazard area or in flood hazard areas identified as Zone
AO or Zone AH.
3. For alteration of a watercourse, an engineering analysis prepared in accordance with
standard engineering practices which demonstrates that the flood -carrying capacity
of the altered or relocated portion of the watercourse will not be decreased, and
certification that the altered watercourse shall be maintained in a manner which
preserves the channel's flood -carrying capacity; the applicant shall submit the
analysis to FEMA as specified in Section 6.05.05(D) of this ordinance.
4. For activities that propose to alter sand dunes or mangrove stands in coastal high
hazard areas (Zone V), an engineering analysis that demonstrates that the proposed
alteration will not increase the potential for flood damage.
D. Submission of Additional Data. When additional hydrologic, hydraulic or other
engineering data, studies, and additional analyses are submitted to support an application,
the applicant has the right to seek a Letter of Map Change from FEMA to change the base
flood elevations, change floodway boundaries, or change boundaries of flood hazard areas
shown on FIRMs, and to submit such data to FEMA for such purposes. The analyses shall be
prepared by a Florida licensed engineer in a format required by FEMA. Submittal
requirements and processing fees shall be the responsibility of the applicant.
(Ord. No. 18-001, Pt. A, 1-23-2018)
6.05.06. Inspections.
A. General. Development for which a floodplain development permit or approval is
required shall be subject to inspection.
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B. Development Other Than Buildings and Structures. The Floodplain Administrator
shall inspect all development to determine compliance with the requirements of this
ordinance and the conditions of issued floodplain development permits or approvals.
C. Buildings, Structures and Facilities Exempt from the Florida Building Code. The
Floodplain Administrator shall inspect buildings, structures and facilities exempt from the
Florida Building Code to determine compliance with the requirements of this ordinance and
the conditions of issued floodplain development permits or approvals.
D. Buildings, Structures and Facilities Exempt from the Florida Building Code, lowest
floor inspection. Upon placement of the lowest floor, including basement, and prior to further
vertical construction, the owner of a building, structure or facility exempt from the Florida
Building Code, or the owner's authorized agent, shall submit to the Floodplain Administra-
tor:
1. If a design flood elevation was used to determine the required elevation of the lowest
floor, the certification of elevation of the lowest floor prepared and sealed by a Florida
licensed professional surveyor; or
2. If the elevation used to determine the required elevation of the lowest floor was
determined in accordance with Section 6.05.06(B)(3)(b) of this ordinance, the
documentation of height of the lowest floor above highest adjacent grade, prepared
by the owner or the owner's authorized agent.
E. Buildings, Structures And Facilities Exempt from the Florida Building Code, Final
Inspection. As part of the final inspection, the owner or owner's authorized agent shall
submit to the Floodplain Administrator a final certification of elevation of the lowest floor or
final documentation of the height of the lowest floor above the highest adjacent grade; such
certifications and documentations shall be prepared as specified in Section 6.05.06(D) of this
ordinance.
F. Manufactured Homes. The Floodplain Administrator shall inspect manufactured
homes that are installed or replaced in flood hazard areas to determine compliance with the
requirements of this ordinance and the conditions of the issued permit. Upon placement of
a manufactured home, certification of the elevation of the lowest floor shall be submitted to
the Floodplain Administrator.
(Ord. No. 18-001, Pt. A, 1-23-2018)
6.05.07. Variances and appeals.
A. General. The Board of Adjustment shall hear and decide on requests for appeals and
requests for variances from the strict application of this ordinance. Pursuant to F.S.
§ 553.73(5), the Board of Adjustment shall hear and decide on requests for appeals and
requests for variances from the strict application of the flood resistant construction
requirements of the Florida Building Code. This section does not apply to Section 3109 of the
Florida Building Code, Building.
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B. Appeals. The Board of Adjustment shall hear and decide appeals when it is alleged
there is an error in any requirement, decision, or determination made by the Floodplain
Administrator in the administration and enforcement of this ordinance. Any person
aggrieved by the decision may appeal such decision to the Circuit Court, as provided by
Florida Statutes.
C. Limitations on Authority to Grant Variances. The Board of Adjustment shall base its
decisions on variances on technical justifications submitted by applicants, the considerations
for issuance in Section 6.05.07(G) of this ordinance, the conditions of issuance set forth in
Section 6.05.07(H) of this ordinance, and the comments and recommendations of the
Floodplain Administrator and the Building Official. The Board of Adjustment has the right
to attach such conditions as it deems necessary to further the purposes and objectives of this
ordinance.
D. Restrictions in Floodways. A variance shall not be issued for any proposed develop-
ment in a floodway if any increase in base flood elevations would result, as evidenced by the
applicable analyses and certifications required in Section 6.05.05(C) of this ordinance.
E. Historic Buildings. A variance is authorized to be issued for the repair, improvement,
or rehabilitation of a historic building that is determined eligible for the exception to the
flood resistant construction requirements of the Florida Building Code, Existing Building,
Chapter 12 Historic Buildings, upon a determination that the proposed repair, improvement,
or rehabilitation will not preclude the building's continued designation as a historic building
and the variance is the minimum necessary to preserve the historic character and design of
the building. If the proposed work precludes the building's continued designation as a
historic building, a variance shall not be granted and the building and any repair,
improvement, and rehabilitation shall be subject to the requirements of the Florida Building
Code.
F. Functionally Dependent Uses. A variance is authorized to be issued for the construction
or substantial improvement necessary for the conduct of a functionally dependent use, as
defined in this ordinance, provided the variance meets the requirements of Section
6.05.07(D), is the minimum necessary considering the flood hazard, and all due consideration
has been given to use of methods and materials that minimize flood damage during
occurrence of the base flood.
G. Considerations for Issuance of Variances. In reviewing requests for variances, the
Board of Adjustment shall consider all technical evaluations, all relevant factors, all other
applicable provisions of the Florida Building Code, this ordinance, and the following:
1. The danger that materials and debris may be swept onto other lands resulting in
further injury or damage;
2. The danger to life and property due to flooding or erosion damage;
3. The susceptibility of the proposed development, including contents, to flood damage
and the effect of such damage on current and future owners;
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4. The importance of the services provided by the proposed development to the
community;
5. The availability of alternate locations for the proposed development that are subject
to lower risk of flooding or erosion;
6. The compatibility of the proposed development with existing and anticipated
development;
7. The relationship of the proposed development to the comprehensive plan and
floodplain management program for the area;
8. The safety of access to the property in times of flooding for ordinary and emergency
vehicles;
9. The expected heights, velocity, duration, rate of rise and debris and sediment
transport of the floodwaters and the effects of wave action, if applicable, expected at
the site; and
10. The costs of providing governmental services during and after flood conditions
including maintenance and repair of public utilities and facilities such as sewer, gas,
electrical and water systems, streets and bridges.
H. Conditions for Issuance of Variances. Variances shall be issued only upon:
1. Submission by the applicant, of a showing of good and sufficient cause that the
unique characteristics of the size, configuration, or topography of the site limit
compliance with any provision of this ordinance or the required elevation standards;
2. Determination by the Board of Adjustment that:
(a) Failure to grant the variance would result in exceptional hardship due to the
physical characteristics of the land that render the lot undevelopable; increased
costs to satisfy the requirements or inconvenience do not constitute hardship;
(b) The granting of a variance will not result in increased flood heights, additional
threats to public safety, extraordinary public expense, nor create nuisances,
cause fraud on or victimization of the public or conflict with existing local laws
and ordinances; and
(c) The variance is the minimum necessary, considering the flood hazard, to afford
relief;
3. Receipt of a signed statement by the applicant that the variance, if granted, shall be
recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the Court in such a manner that it appears in
the chain of title of the affected parcel of land; and
4. If the request is for a variance to allow construction of the lowest floor of a new
building, or substantial improvement of a building, below the required elevation, a
copy in the record of a written notice from the Floodplain Administrator to the
applicant for the variance, specifying the difference between the base flood elevation
and the proposed elevation of the lowest floor, stating that the cost of federal flood
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insurance will be commensurate with the increased risk resulting from the reduced
floor elevation (up to amounts as high as twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for one hundred
dollars ($100.00) of insurance coverage), and stating that construction below the
base flood elevation increases risks to life and property.
(Ord. No. 18-001, Pt. A, 1-23-2018)
6.05.08. Violations.
A. Violations. Any development that is not within the scope of the Florida Building Code
but that is regulated by this ordinance that is performed without an issued permit, that is in
conflict with an issued permit, or that does not fully comply with this ordinance, shall be
deemed a violation of this ordinance. A building or structure without the documentation of
elevation of the lowest floor, other required design certifications, or other evidence of
compliance required by this ordinance or the Florida Building Code is presumed to be a
violation until such time as that documentation is provided.
B. Authority. For development that is not within the scope of the Florida Building Code
but that is regulated by this ordinance and that is determined to be a violation, the
Floodplain Administrator is authorized to serve notices of violation or stop work orders to
owners of the property involved, to the owner's agent, or to the person or persons performing
the work.
C. Unlawful Continuance. Any person who shall continue any work after having been
served with a notice of violation or a stop work order, except such work as that person is
directed to perform to remove or remedy a violation or unsafe condition, shall be subject to
penalties as prescribed by law.
(Ord. No. 18-001, Pt. A, 1-23-2018)
6.05.09. Flood resistant development.
A. Buildings and Structures.
1. Design and Construction of Buildings, Structures and Facilities Exempt from the
Florida Building Code. Pursuant to Section 6.05.04(C) of this ordinance, buildings,
structures, and facilities that are exempt from the Florida Building Code, including
substantial improvement or repair of substantial damage of such buildings, structures
and facilities, shall be designed and constructed in accordance with the flood load
and flood resistant construction requirements of ASCE 24. Structures exempt from
the Florida Building Code that are not walled and roofed buildings shall comply with
the requirements of Section 6.05.09(G) of this ordinance.
2. Buildings and Structures Seaward of the Coastal Construction Control Line. If
extending, in whole or in part, seaward of the coastal construction control line and
also located, in whole or in part, in a flood hazard area:
(a) Buildings and structures shall be designed and constructed to comply with the
more restrictive applicable requirements of the Florida Building Code, Building
Section 3109 and Section 1612 or Florida Building Code, Residential Section
R322.
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(b) Minor structures and non -habitable major structures as defined in F.S.
§ 161.54, shall be designed and constructed to comply with the intent and
applicable provisions of this ordinance and ASCE 24.
B. Subdivisions.
1. Minimum Requirements. Subdivision proposals, including proposals for manufactured
home parks and subdivisions, shall be reviewed to determine that:
(a) Such proposals are consistent with the need to minimize flood damage and will
be reasonably safe from flooding;
(b) All public utilities and facilities such as sewer, gas, electric, communications,
and water systems are located and constructed to minimize or eliminate flood
damage; and
(c) Adequate drainage is provided to reduce exposure to flood hazards; in Zones AH
and AO, adequate drainage paths shall be provided to guide floodwaters around
and away from proposed structures.
2. Subdivision Plats. Where any portion of proposed subdivisions, including manufactured
home parks and subdivisions, lies within a flood hazard area, the following shall be
required:
(a) Delineation of flood hazard areas, floodway boundaries and flood zones, and
design flood elevations, as appropriate, shall be shown on preliminary plats;
(b) Where the subdivision has more than fifty (50) lots or is larger than five (5)
acres and base flood elevations are not included on the FIRM, the base flood
elevations determined in accordance with Section 6.05.05(B)(1) of this ordinance;
and
(c) Compliance with the site improvement and utilities requirements of Section
6.05.09(C) of this ordinance.
C. Site Improvements, Utilities and Limitations.
1. Minimum Requirements. All proposed new development shall be reviewed to
determine that:
(a) Such proposals are consistent with the need to minimize flood damage and will
be reasonably safe from flooding;
(b) All public utilities and facilities such as sewer, gas, electric, communications,
and water systems are located and constructed to minimize or eliminate flood
damage; and
(c) Adequate drainage is provided to reduce exposure to flood hazards; in Zones AH
and AO, adequate drainage paths shall be provided to guide floodwaters around
and away from proposed structures.
2. Sanitary Sewage Facilities. All new and replacement sanitary sewage facilities,
private sewage treatment plants (including all pumping stations and collector
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systems), and on-site waste disposal systems shall be designed in accordance with
the standards for onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems in Chapter 64E-6,
F.A.C. and ASCE 24 Chapter 7 to minimize or eliminate infiltration of floodwaters
into the facilities and discharge from the facilities into flood waters, and impairment
of the facilities and systems.
3. Water Supply Facilities. All new and replacement water supply facilities shall be
designed in accordance with the water well construction standards in Chapter
62-532.500, F.A.C. and ASCE 24 Chapter 7 to minimize or eliminate infiltration of
floodwaters into the systems.
4. Limitations on Sites in Regulatory Floodways. No development, including but not
limited to site improvements, and land disturbing activity involving fill or regrading,
shall be authorized in the regulatory floodway unless the floodway encroachment
analysis required in Section 6.05.05(C)(1) of this ordinance demonstrates that the
proposed development or land disturbing activity will not result in any increase in
the base flood elevation.
5. Limitations on Placement of Fill. Subject to the limitations of this ordinance, fill shall
be designed to be stable under conditions of flooding including rapid rise and rapid
drawdown of floodwaters, prolonged inundation, and protection against flood -related
erosion and scour. In addition to these requirements, if intended to support buildings
and structures (Zone A only), fill shall comply with the requirements of the Florida
Building Code.
6. Limitations on Sites in Coastal High Hazard Areas (Zone V). In coastal high hazard
areas, alteration of sand dunes and mangrove stands shall be permitted only if such
alteration is approved by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and
only if the engineering analysis required by Section 6.05.05(C)(4) of this ordinance
demonstrates that the proposed alteration will not increase the potential for flood
damage. Construction or restoration of dunes under or around elevated buildings
and structures shall comply with Section 6.05.09(G)(8)(3) of this ordinance.
D. Manufactured Homes.
1. General. All manufactured homes installed in flood hazard areas shall be installed by
an installer that is licensed pursuant to F.S. § 320.8249, and shall comply with the
requirements of Chapter 15C-1, F.A.C. and the requirements of this ordinance. If
located seaward of the coastal construction control line, all manufactured homes
shall comply with the more restrictive of the applicable requirements.
2. Limitations on Installation in Floodways and Coastal High Hazard Areas (Zone V).
New installations of manufactured homes shall not be permitted in floodways and
coastal high hazard areas (Zone V).
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3. Foundations. All new manufactured homes and replacement manufactured homes
installed in flood hazard areas shall be installed on permanent, reinforced founda-
tions that:
(a) In flood hazard areas (Zone A) other than coastal high hazard areas, are
designed in accordance with the foundation requirements of the Florida
Building Code, Residential Section R322.2 and this ordinance. Foundations for
manufactured homes subject to Section 6.05.09(D)(7) of this ordinance are
permitted to be reinforced piers or other foundation elements of at least
equivalent strength.
(b) In coastal high hazard areas (Zone V), are designed in accordance with the
foundation requirements of the Florida Building Code, Residential Section
R322.3 and this ordinance.
4. Anchoring. All new manufactured homes and replacement manufactured homes
shall be installed using methods and practices which minimize flood damage and
shall be securely anchored to an adequately anchored foundation system to resist
flotation, collapse or lateral movement. Methods of anchoring include, but are not
limited to, use of over -the -top or frame ties to ground anchors. This anchoring
requirement is in addition to applicable state and local anchoring requirements for
wind resistance.
5. Elevation. Manufactured homes that are placed, replaced, or substantially improved
shall comply with Section 6.05.09(D)(6) or 6.05.09(D)(7) of this ordinance, as
applicable.
6. General Elevation Requirement. Unless subject to the requirements of Section
6.05.09(D)(7) of this ordinance, all manufactured homes that are placed, replaced, or
substantially improved on sites located: (a) outside of a manufactured home park or
subdivision; (b) in a new manufactured home park or subdivision; (c) in an expansion
to an existing manufactured home park or subdivision; or (d) in an existing
manufactured home park or subdivision upon which a manufactured home has
incurred "substantial damage" as the result of a flood, shall be elevated such that the
bottom of the frame is at or above the elevation required, as applicable to the flood
hazard area, in the Florida Building Code, Residential Section R322.2 (Zone A) or
Section R322.3 (Zone V).
7. Elevation Requirement for Certain Existing Manufactured Home Parks and Subdivi-
sions. Manufactured homes that are not subject to Section 6.05.09(D)(6) of this
ordinance, including manufactured homes that are placed, replaced, or substantially
improved on sites located in an existing manufactured home park or subdivision,
unless on a site where substantial damage as result of flooding has occurred, shall be
elevated such that either the:
(a) Bottom of the frame of the manufactured home is at or above the elevation
required, as applicable to the flood hazard area, in the Florida Building Code,
Residential Section R322.2 (Zone A) or Section R322.3 (Zone V); or
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(b) Bottom of the frame is supported by reinforced piers or other foundation
elements of at least equivalent strength that are not less than thirty-six (36)
inches in height above grade.
8. Enclosures. Enclosed areas below elevated manufactured homes shall comply with
the requirements of the Florida Building Code, Residential Section R322.2 or R322.3
for such enclosed areas, as applicable to the flood hazard area.
9. Utility Equipment. Utility equipment that serves manufactured homes, including
electric, heating, ventilation, plumbing, and air conditioning equipment and other
service facilities, shall comply with the requirements of the Florida Building Code,
Residential Section R322, as applicable to the flood hazard area.
E. Recreational Vehicles and Park Trailers.
1. Temporary Placement. Recreational vehicles and park trailers placed temporarily in
flood hazard areas shall:
(a) Be on the site for fewer than one hundred eighty (180) consecutive days; or
(b) Be fully licensed and ready for highway use, which means the recreational
vehicle or park model is on wheels or jacking system, is attached to the site only
by quick -disconnect type utilities and security devices, and has no permanent
attachments such as additions, rooms, stairs, decks and porches.
2. Permanent Placement. Recreational vehicles and park trailers that do not meet the
limitations in Section 6.05.09(E)(1) of this ordinance for temporary placement shall
meet the requirements of Section 6.05.09(D) of this ordinance for manufactured
homes.
3. Limitations on Placement on Coastal High Hazard Areas (Zone V). Temporary or
permanent placement of recreational vehicles shall not be permitted in coastal high
hazard areas (Zone V) except in an existing recreational vehicle park.
F. Tanks.
1. Underground Tanks. Underground tanks in flood hazard areas shall be anchored to
prevent flotation, collapse or lateral movement resulting from hydrodynamic and
hydrostatic loads during conditions of the design flood, including the effects of
buoyancy assuming the tank is empty.
2. Above -Ground Tanks, Not Elevated. Above -ground tanks that do not meet the
elevation requirements of Section 6.05.09(F)(3) of this ordinance shall:
(a) Be permitted in flood hazard areas (Zone A) other than coastal high hazard
areas, provided the tanks are anchored or otherwise designed and constructed
to prevent flotation, collapse or lateral movement resulting from hydrodynamic
and hydrostatic loads during conditions of the design flood, including the effects
of buoyancy assuming the tank is empty and the effects of flood -borne debris.
(2) Not be permitted in coastal high hazard areas (Zone V).
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3. Above -Ground Tanks, Elevated. Above -ground tanks in flood hazard areas shall be
elevated to or above the design flood elevation and attached to a supporting structure
that is designed to prevent flotation, collapse or lateral movement during conditions
of the design flood. Tank -supporting structures shall meet the foundation require-
ments of the applicable flood hazard area.
4. Tank Inlets and Vents. Tank inlets, fill openings, outlets and vents shall be:
(a) At or above the design flood elevation or fitted with covers designed to prevent
the inflow of floodwater or outflow of the contents of the tanks during conditions
of the design flood; and
(b) Anchored to prevent lateral movement resulting from hydrodynamic and
hydrostatic loads, including the effects of buoyancy, during conditions of the
design flood.
G. Other Development.
1. General Requirements for Other Development. All development, including man-made
changes to improved or unimproved real estate for which specific provisions are not specified
in this ordinance or the Florida Building Code, shall:
(a) Be located and constructed to minimize flood damage;
(b) Meet the limitations of Section 6.05.09(C)(4) of this ordinance if located in a
regulated floodway;
(c) Be anchored to prevent flotation, collapse or lateral movement resulting from
hydrostatic loads, including the effects of buoyancy, during conditions of the
design flood;
(d) Be constructed of flood damage -resistant materials; and
(e) Have mechanical, plumbing, and electrical systems above the design flood
elevation or meet the requirements of ASCE 24, except that minimum electric
service required to address life safety and electric code requirements is
permitted below the design flood elevation provided it conforms to the
provisions of the electrical part of building code for wet locations.
2. Fences in Regulated Floodways. Fences in regulated floodways that have the
potential to block the passage of floodwaters, such as stockade fences and wire mesh
fences, shall meet the limitations of Section 6.05.09(C)(4) of this ordinance.
3. Retaining Walls, Sidewalks and Driveways in Regulated Floodways. Retaining walls
and sidewalks and driveways that involve the placement of fill in regulated
floodways shall meet the limitations of Section 6.05.09(C)(4) of this ordinance.
4. Roads and Watercourse Crossings in Regulated Floodways. Roads and watercourse
crossings, including roads, bridges, culverts, low-water crossings and similar means
for vehicles or pedestrians to travel from one side of a watercourse to the other side,
that encroach into regulated floodways shall meet the limitations of Section
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6.05.09(C)(4) of this ordinance. Alteration of a watercourse that is part of a road or
watercourse crossing shall meet the requirements of Section 6.05.05(C)(3) of this
ordinance.
5. Concrete Slabs Used as Parking Pads, Enclosure Floors, Landings, Decks, Walkways,
Patios and Similar Nonstructural Uses in Coastal High Hazard Areas (Zone V). In
coastal high hazard areas, concrete slabs used as parking pads, enclosure floors,
landings, decks, walkways, patios and similar nonstructural uses are permitted
beneath or adjacent to buildings and structures provided the concrete slabs are
designed and constructed to be:
(a) Structurally independent of the foundation system of the building or structure;
(b) Frangible and not reinforced, so as to minimize debris during flooding that is
capable of causing significant damage to any structure; and
(c) Have a maximum slab thickness of not more than four (4) inches.
6. Decks and Patios in Coastal High Hazard Areas (Zone V). In addition to the
requirements of the Florida Building Code, in coastal high hazard areas decks and
patios shall be located, designed, and constructed in compliance with the following:
(a) A deck that is structurally attached to a building or structure shall have the
bottom of the lowest horizontal structural member at or above the design flood
elevation and any supporting members that extend below the design flood
elevation shall comply with the foundation requirements that apply to the
building or structure, which shall be designed to accommodate any increased
loads resulting from the attached deck.
(b) A deck or patio that is located below the design flood elevation shall be
structurally independent from buildings or structures and their foundation
systems, and shall be designed and constructed either to remain intact and in
place during design flood conditions or to break apart into small pieces to
minimize debris during flooding that is capable of causing structural damage to
the building or structure or to adjacent buildings and structures.
(c) A deck or patio that has a vertical thickness of more than twelve (12) inches or
that is constructed with more than the minimum amount of fill necessary for
site drainage shall not be approved unless an analysis prepared by a qualified
registered design professional demonstrates no harmful diversion of floodwaters
or wave runup and wave reflection that would increase damage to the building
or structure or to adjacent buildings and structures.
(d) A deck or patio that has a vertical thickness of twelve (12) inches or less and
that is at natural grade or on nonstructural fill material that is similar to and
compatible with local soils and is the minimum amount necessary for site
drainage may be approved without requiring analysis of the impact on diversion
of floodwaters or wave runup and wave reflection.
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7. Other Development in Coastal High Hazard Areas (Zone V). In coastal high hazard
areas, development activities other than buildings and structures shall be permitted
only if also authorized by the appropriate federal, state or local authority; if located
outside the footprint of, and not structurally attached to, buildings and structures;
and if analyses prepared by qualified registered design professionals demonstrate no
harmful diversion of floodwaters or wave runup and wave reflection that would
increase damage to adjacent buildings and structures. Such other development
activities include but are not limited to:
(a) Bulkheads, seawalls, retaining walls, revetments, and similar erosion control
structures;
(b) Solid fences and privacy walls, and fences prone to trapping debris, unless
designed and constructed to fail under flood conditions less than the design
flood or otherwise function to avoid obstruction of floodwaters; and
(c) On-site sewage treatment and disposal systems defined in 64E-6.002, F.A.C., as
filled systems or mound systems.
8. Nonstructural Fill in Coastal High Hazard Areas (Zone V). In coastal high hazard
areas:
(a) Minor grading and the placement of minor quantities of nonstructural fill shall
be permitted for landscaping and for drainage purposes under and around
buildings provided the fill will wash out from storm surge, thereby rendering
the building free of obstruction prior to generating excessive loading forces,
ramping effects, or wave deflection.
(b) Nonstructural fill with finished slopes that are steeper than one (1) unit vertical
to five (5) units horizontal shall be permitted only if an analysis prepared by a
qualified registered design professional demonstrates no harmful diversion of
floodwaters or wave runup and wave reflection that would increase damage to
adjacent buildings and structures, and that the volume and distribution of fill
will not cause wave deflection on adjacent buildings and structures.
(c) Where authorized by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection or
applicable local approval, sand dune construction and restoration of sand dunes
under or around elevated buildings are permitted without additional engineer-
ing analysis or certification of the diversion of floodwater or wave runup and
wave reflection if the scale and location of the dune work is consistent with local
beach -dune morphology and the vertical clearance is maintained between the
top of the sand dune and the lowest horizontal structural member of the
building.
(Ord. No. 18-001, Pt. A, 1-23-2018)
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6.06.00. MINING
6.06.01. Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining Permit.
A. It shall be illegal to excavate or mine, as defined in Chapter II, any real property in St.
Lucie County without first obtaining a mining permit for such activity, except as exempted
in Section 11.05.11.
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DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT STANDARDS
7.10.17.
Mobile Home Parks.
7.10.18.
Airport Industrial Park—Special Regulations.
7.10.19.
Outdoor Shooting Ranges.
7.10.20.
Bed and Breakfast Residences.
7.10.21.
Off -Road Vehicle Parks.
7.10.22.
Car Washes, Self -Service.
7.10.23.
Telecommunications Tower Siting.
7.10.24.
Community Architectural Standards.
7.10.25.
Emergency Services Communications.
7.10.26.
Newsracks on Public Rights -of -Way.
7.10.27.
Reserved.
7.10.28.
Solar Energy.
7.10.29.
Pain Management Clinic.
7.10.30.
Reasonable Accommodation Procedures.
7.10.31.
Membership Organizations—Enclosed Assembly Areas.
7.10.32.
Supplemental Standards for Condominium Hotel Unit Uses.
7.10.33.
Reserved.
7.10.34.
Commercial Composting Facilities.
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LOT SIZE AND DIMENSIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Zoning
District
Maximum
Gross
Density
(Du/Ac)
(a)
Minimum
Lot Size
(sf)
Minimum
Lot Width
Minimum
Road
Frontage
Minimum Yard
Max.
Hht.
Max. Lot
Coverage
by
Buildings
Front
Rear
Side
Side @
corner
AR -1
AGRICULTURAL
RESIDENTIAL
1
43,560
150
30
50
30
20
30
35
20%
RE -1
RESIDENTIAL, ESTATE - 1
1
43,560
150
30
50
30(g)
20
30
35
20%
RE -2
RESIDENTIAL, ESTATE - 2
2
17,500
100
100
25(1)
15(1)
10(1)
20(1)
35
20%
RS -2
RESIDENTIAL,
SINGLE-FAMILY - 2
2
15,000
100
30
250)
15(8)(1)
10(1)
20(1)
35
20%
RESIDENTIAL,
SINGLE-FAMILY - 3
3
10,000
75
30
25(1)
15(8)(1)
10(1)
20(1)
35
30%
ERS-4
RESIDENTIAL,
SINGLE-FAMILY - 4
4
10,000
75
30
25(1)
15(g)(1)
7.5(1)
20(1)
35
30%
8,000(f)
75
30
25(1)
15(8)(1)
7.5(1)
20(1)
35
30%
RMH-5
RESIDENTIAL,
MOBILE HOME - 5
5
10,000
75
30
25(1)
15(1)
10(1)
20(1)
35
35%
RM -5
RESIDENTIAL,
MULTIPLE FAMILY - 5
5
10,000
100
60
25(b)(1)
15(b)(1)
10(b)(1)
20(b)(1)
35(b,i)
40%
SINGLE-FAMILY
DEVELOPMENT LOT
10,000
75
30
25(1)
15(g)(1)
7.5(1)
20(1)
35
30%
8,000(f)
75
30
25(1)
15(g)(1)
7.5(1)
20(1)
35
30%
RM -7
RESIDENTIAL,
MULTIPLE FAMILY - 7
7
10,000
100
60
25(b)(1)
15(b)(1)
10(b)(1)
20(b)(1)
35(b,i)
40%
SINGLE-FAMILY DEVELOP-
MENT LOT
10,000
75
30
25(1)
15(8)(1)
7.5(1)
20(1)
35
30%
8,000(f)
75
30
25(1)
15(g)(1)
7.5(1)
20(1)
35
30%
RM -9
RESIDENTIAL, MULTIPLE
FAMILY - 9
9
10,000
100
60
25(b)(1)
15(b)(1)
10(b)(1)
20(b)(1)
35(b,i)
40%
SINGLE-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT LOT
10,000
75
30
25(1)
15(g)(1)
7.5(1)
20(1)
35
30%
8,000(f)
75
30
25(1)
15(g)(1)
7.5(1)
20(1)
35
300/t
RM -11
RESIDENTIAL,
MULTIPLE FAMILY - 11
11
10,000
100
60
25(b)(1)
15(b)(1)
10(b)(1)
20(b)(1)
35(b,i)
40%
SINGLE-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT LOT
10,000
75
30
25(1)
15(g)(1)
7.5(1)
20(1)
35
30%
8,000(f)
75
30
25(1)
15(8)(1) 1
7.5(1)
20(1)
35
30%
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LOT SIZE AND DIMENSIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Zoning
District
Maximum
Gross
Density
(Du IAO
(a)
Minimum
Lot Size
(sf)
Minimum
Lot Width
Minimum
Road
Frontage
Front
Minimum Yard
Rear Side
Side @
corner
Max.
Hht.
Max. Lot
Coverage
by
Buildings
RM -15
RESIDENTIAL,
MULTIPLE FAMILY - 15
15
10,000
100
60
25(b)(1)
15(b)(1)
10(b)(1)
20(b)(1)
35(b,i)
40%
SINGLE-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT LOT
10,000
75
30
25(1)
15(g)(1)
7.5(1)
20(1)
35
30%
8,000(f) 75 30
25(1) 15(8)(1) 7.5(1) 20(1) 35
30%
CN
COMMERCIAL
NEIGHBORHOOD
10,000
75
60
25
20
10
20
35
50%
CO
COMMERCIAL OFFICE
10,000
75
60
25
20
10
20
35
50%
CG
COMMERCIAL GENERAL
(d)
20,000
100
60
25(b)
20(b)
10(b)
20(b)
60(b,i)
50%
CR
COMMERCIAL RESORT
(m)
217,800
100
60
25(b)
20(b)
10(b)
20(b)
60(b,i)
30%
IL
INDUSTRIAL LIGHT
20,000
100
60
25
20
10
20
50(i)
50%
IH
INDUSTRIAL HEAVY
43,560
200
60
50
40
30
50
80(i)
50%
IX
INDUSTRIAL EXTRACTION
435,600
(c)
(C)
(c)
(c)
(C)
(c)
(c,i)
(c)
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UTILITIES
43,560
200
60
40
30
20
20
40
30%
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43,560
150
60
50
30
20
30
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108,900
150
60
50
30
20
30
80(i)
15% (j)
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217,800
150
60
50
30
20
30
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CONSERVATION
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217,800
150
60
50
30
20
30
80(i)
2%
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(k)
(k)
50
30
20
30
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(k)
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20,000
100
60
25
20
20
20
40(e,i)
30%
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RELIGIOUS FACILITIES
20,000
100
60
1 25
20
20
20
40(i)
30%
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PLANNED UNIT
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LOT SIZE AND DIMENSIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Maximum
Gross
Max. Lot
Density
Minimum
Minimum
Minimum Yard
Coverage
Side @
Zoning
(DulAc)
Lot Size
Minimum
Road
Max.
by
District
(a)
(sf)
Lot Width
Frontage
Front
Rear
Side
corner
Hht.
Buildings
HIRD
HUTCHINSON ISLAND
SEE SECTION 3.01.03(AA) (b), (d), (i)
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT
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NOTES:
(a) Expressed as dwellings/per acre.
(b) For three (3) or more dwelling units, motel, or hotel uses, use the building spacing
formula identified in Section 7.04.03.
(c) For Industrial extraction uses, refer to Mining Regulations, Section 6.06.00.
(d) Maximum net density of thirty-six (36) guest units/acre, except for North and South
Hutchinson Island. For hotel/motel development density on North and South
Hutchinson Island refer to Policy 1.1.10.2 of the St. Lucie County Comprehensive
Plan.
(e) All structures in excess of forty (40) feet shall comply with the provision of Section
7.04.03.
(f) With central water.
(g) For enclosed storage structures, greenhouses, child's playhouse and gazebos, this
dimension may be reduced to five (5) feet.
(h) Ten thousand (10,000) square foot lots permitted when use limitations consistent
with the CN and CO zoning districts (see Section 3.01.03(Q) and (R).
(i) For any development activity on Hutchinson Island, refer to Section 4.01.00,
Hutchinson Island - Building Height Overlay Zone.
0) For aquaculture production activities, the maximum percentage of lot coverage by
building is fifty percent (50%). All buildings are subject to meeting the applicable
stormwater management standards and requirements of this code.
For the purpose of this section, aquaculture means the cultivation of aquatic
organism and aquacultural products as defined in F.S. Ch. 597.0015.
(k) There shall be no minimum lot size required for the Cpub zoning district, however
the minimum yard setback for any structures erected on any site zoned Cpub shall be
as identified.
(1) For accessible handicap ramps the required yard setback may be reduced to fifty
percent (50%) of the minimum setback requirement.
The accessible handicap ramp permitted under this amendment shall not have a roof
or be enclosed and shall not provide for a deck or landing larger than is necessary to
be in compliance with the Florida Accessibility Code for Building Construction. A
Physician's Certification Form and proper Building Permit Application documenta-
tion is required.
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 7;38.2 Adopted May 19, 2009
DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT STANDARDS 7.04.02
(m) Maximum hotel/motel density of thirty-six (36) guest units/acre. For hotel/motel
projects containing condominium hotel units (as defined in the Land Development
Code) the total number of hotel/motel units of any kind (including condominium
hotel units) may not exceed 36 units per acre.
(Ord. No. 08-025, Pt. A, 9-16-2008; Ord. No. 15-002, Pt. A, 4-7-2015; Ord. No. 2016-23, Pt.
A, 11-1-2016)
7.04.02. Open Space Requirements.
A. Purpose. The purpose of this Section is to provide standards for Open Space and
Habitat Preserve areas within the areas designated for Agricultural Land Use under the St.
Lucie County Comprehensive Plan.
B. General Guidelines. The following activities and land uses may be counted toward open
space:
1. Passive recreation areas.
2. Natural preserves, wetland and upland habitats, including those areas of on-site
preservation required by the other provisions of this Code.
3. Required landscape and common areas.
4. Playgrounds and active recreation areas, but not including swimming pools, tennis
courts and/or other impervious activity areas.
5. Golf courses.
6. Agricultural activities not involving any activities within an enclosed or covered
structure.
7. Lakes, ponds, and waterways in private ownership, but available for use by the
residents/occupants of the particular development.
8. Stormwater detention and retention facilities providing that no more than thirty
percent (30%) of the overall open space requirement shall be satisfied in this manner.
C. Open Space Standards in Agricultural Areas. (Reserved)
D. Open Space Standards in Planned Unit Developments. Open space requirements, as a
percentage of the total site, for all Planned Unit Developments shall be as set forth in Section
7.01.00.
E. Open Space Standards in Planned Nonresidential Developments. Open space require-
ments, as a percentage of the total site, for all Planned Nonresidential Developments shall
be as set forth in Section 7.02.00.
F. Open Space Standards in Planned Mixed Use Developments. Open space requirements,
as a percentage of the total site, for all Planned Mixed Use Developments shall be as set forth
in Section 7.03.00.
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 7:38.3 Adopted May 19, 2009
7.04.02 ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
G. Open Space Standards in Planned Towns or Villages. Open space requirements for
Planned Town or Villages shall be as set forth in Section 3.01.03.FF.2.b and 2.0.
H. Open Space Standards in Planned Country Subdivisions. Open space requirements for
Planned Country Subdivisions shall be as set forth in Section 3.01.03.GG.2.j.
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 7:38.4 Adopted May 19, 2009
DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT STANDARDS 7.10.08
standards to meet the particular needs of the agricultural labor industry through design
standards while protecting the health, safety and general welfare of the agricultural
laborers and the general public. It is further the intent of this section that such housing will
be used exclusively for agricultural housing purposes. Agricultural Labor Housing is
encouraged to be clustered. Agricultural Labor Housing shall be subject to the Florida
Building Code.
B. Housing Types. These standards apply to the following housing types as Agricultural
Labor Housing, either as principal buildings or accessory buildings in the AG -1, AG -2.5 and
AG -5 Zoning Districts.
1. Duplexes.
2. Multiple -family dwellings.
C. Accessory Use.
Caretaker's residence
D. Conditional Use. No Agricultural Labor Housing shall be constructed until a request
for conditional use has been approved by the Board of County Commissioners.
E. Standards.
1. Agricultural Labor Housing shall be set back a minimum of one hundred (100) feet
measured from the front property line and all public or private right-of-way lines.
2. No on-site Agricultural Labor Housing shall exceed in land area three (3) percent of
the gross acreage of the agricultural operation, or twenty (20) acres, whichever is
less. Off-site Agricultural Labor Housing shall have a land area of not less than five
(5) acres.
3. Certification of compliance of structures built under this section with the Florida
Department of Health, pursuant to Chapter 64E-14. F.A.C. (Florida Administrative
Code), as a migrant labor camp shall be required. The St. Lucie County Planning
and Development Services Director shall be copied on the written notice of intent to
the Department of Health required in F.A.C. 64E-14.0003.
4. The owner of an Agricultural Labor Housing development shall provide copies of the
Florida Department of Health biannual inspections to the Planning and Develop-
ment Services Director to be filed with the Conditional Use Permit.
5. No Agricultural Labor Housing structure licensed by the Florida Department of
Health as a migrant labor camp shall be used as a permanent residence.
6. In the event of a change of ownership of an Agricultural Labor Housing development,
the new owner shall submit an application for a minor adjustment to the conditional
use permit within ninety (90) days of the date the change in ownership is recorded in
the public records of St. Lucie County.
7. Agricultural Labor Housing shall comply with landscaping requirements in accordance
with Section 7.09.00 of the County Land Development Code.
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Supp. No. 16 7:125 Adopted May 19, 2009
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8. The maximum number of dwelling units shall not exceed one (1) unit per gross acre.
9. The minimum setbacks for structures from property lines shall be consistent with
the zoning district. Any existing or proposed non-residential building(s) on the
overall parcel shall be shown along with the distance between the proposed housing
and other existing or proposed structures.
F. Site plan. Every conditional use application for Agricultural Labor Housing must
include a site plan consistent with Section 11.02.04, including the following additional
information:
1. The site plan shall include a statement that the units shall solely be occupied by
individuals on a temporary basis who are employed in active on-site agricultural
operations or agricultural operations located on other properties leased by the owner
or under the same ownership as the subject project site.
2. A map indicating the location and distance of both off-site agricultural operations at
which the laborers will be working and the housing shall be provided.
3. The area and dimensions of the land to be devoted to the housing development.
4. The layout of building sites and type of proposed structures.
5. Location, size and type of utilities.
6. Environmental Impact Report, conforming to Section 11.02.09(A)(5) of the Land
Development Code.
7. Traffic Impact Report or Study, as needed or required by Land Development Code
Section 11.02.04.
8. The plan shall identify and label all common areas as defined in FAC 64-E-14.002.
9. The site plan shall include the following statement:
Notice of Conveyance. Wherever an interest in real property within an area covered by an
approved conditional use for Agricultural Labor Housing is sold, the seller shall attach to
the instrument of sale, a notice directing the buyer's attention to such approval (including
any amendment) and the area of the lot of record used as a basis for the Agricultural
Labor Housing . The notice shall also generally apprise the buyer of the development
rights, requirements, and remedies provided under such approval, under this Code. Such
notice shall be on a form approved by the Planning and Development Services Director.
10. The site plan shall include a designated transit stop shelter for residents' pickup,
drop off and waiting to provide protection from the weather.
(Ord. No. 2017-04, Pt. A, 4-18-2017)
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 7:126 Adopted May 19, 2009
DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT STANDARDS 7.10.22
only. The edge habitat shall begin at the upland limit of any wetland or deepwater
habitat. This upland edge habitat shall be located such that the total shoreline is
buffered by a minimum width of fifty (50) feet of upland habitat. The upland buffer
requirement does not apply to drainage canals or stormwater conveyance systems
requiring periodic maintenance.
6. No noxious offensive activity shall be performed, nor shall anything be done on the
premises which may be, or may become, an annoyance or nuisance to other occupants
of the area by reason of unsightliness or the excessive emission of odors, dust, fumes,
smoke, or noise.
7.10.22. Car Washes, Self -Service.
In the CN (Commercial, Neighborhood) Zoning District, self-service car washes may be
authorized as a conditional use, subject to the meeting the standards of review set out in
Section 11.07.00 and the following supplemental criteria:
A. The car wash operation is considered to be a drive-through facility and is subject to
the site plan submission requirements of Section 11.02.00. No application for
conditional use will be considered complete until all minimum site plan criteria have
determined to be met.
B. The property on which the car wash is to be located shall be a minimum of ten
thousand (10,000) square feet in size.
C. The car wash, and all related activity areas shall be screened from all adjoining side
and rear properties with an eight (8) masonry wall, or a wall constructed of similar
materials. The wall shall be located a minimum of five (5) feet inside the side and
rear property line. The wall shall be of similar composition, construction, and color
and shall not include chain link fence, with or without slates or wooden screening
materials. If any side property line is adjacent to any street right-of-way line, no
screening wall will be required along that property line.
The five (5) foot landscape buffer that is located on the outside of the masonry wall
shall be landscaped with one (1) tree for every thirty (30) linear feet and with one (1)
shrub or vine for every five (5) linear feet of wall length. At least five (5) feet of the
area inside of the required wall along the side and rear property lines shall be
landscaped with one (1) shrub or vine for every five (5) linear feet of wall length. All
landscaping shall be irrigated in accord with the provisions of Section 7.09.03 of this
Code.
A strip of land at least fifteen (15) feet in depth shall be located between any abutting
street right-of-way and the car wash, and its related activity areas, shall be
landscaped to include one (1) tree for each thirty (30) linear feet of abutting
right-of-way or major fraction thereof. In addition, a hedge, wall or other durable
landscaping barrier shall be placed along the interior perimeter of the landscaped
strip. All landscaping shall be irrigated in accord with the provisions of Section
7.09.03 of this Code.
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 7:153 Adopted May 19, 2009
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D. No more than seven (7) car wash bays and seven (7) vacuum stations shall be allowed
in any one (1) car wash facility.
E. All car wash bays shall be enclosed on two (2) sides and covered by a permanent roof.
F. All on-site lighting fixtures shall be directed so that adjacent properties are not
illuminated. In addition to the above mandatory standards and the standards of
review set forth in Section 11.07.00 of this Code, in considering any application for
Conditional Use the Board of County Commissioners may also consider reasonable
limitations on the cash wash operations, including but not limited, the hours of
business operation and the necessity for manned attendance during those business
operation hours. If limitations are imposed on the hours of operation, or if manned
attendance is required or if any other special limitation is imposed, the Board shall
expressly include in any approval Resolution or other form of Final Development
Order the specific reasons that such limitations have been determined to be
necessary.
7.10.23. Telecommunications Tower Siting.
A. Purpose. The purpose of this section is to establish regulations and requirements for
the siting of wireless telecommunications facilities. All new towers or antennas in the
County shall be subject to these regulations, except where specifically excluded. The section
is intended to accomplish the following:
1. Protect and promote the public health, safety and general welfare of the residents of
the unincorporated areas of the County;
2. Accommodate the growing need and demand for reliable wireless communications
services by permitting the siting of wireless telecommunications towers and
antennas within the County's boundaries and provide reasonable accommodation to
promote and to encourage fair and reasonable competition among telecommunica-
tions service providers or providers of functionally equivalent services on a neutral
and nondiscriminatory basis;
3. Minimize potential impacts of towers upon residential areas and land uses;
4. Encourage and promote the location of towers in nonresidential areas, where the
adverse impact on the community is minimal;
5. Minimize the total number of towers throughout the community by strongly
encouraging the collocation of antennas on new and pre-existing tower sites as a
primary option rather than construction of additional single -use towers;
6. Encourage and promote users of telecommunications towers and antennas to
configure them in a way that minimizes the adverse visual impact of the telecom-
munications towers and antennas through careful design, siting, landscape screen-
ing, and innovative camouflaging techniques;
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 7:154 Adopted May 19, 2009
DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT STANDARDS 7.10.23
7. Minimize potential damage to property from wireless telecommunications towers
and telecommunications facilities by requiring such structures be soundly designed,
constructed, modified and maintained and in compliance with all requirements of the
Florida Building Code applicable to similar structures;
8. Enhance the ability of the providers of wireless telecommunications services to
provide such services to the community through an efficient and timely application
process;
9. Encourage the location and collocation of antennas on existing structures thereby
minimizing new visual impacts and reducing the need for additional antenna
support structures;
10. Further the balance between predictability for the communications industry in the
placement of wireless telecommunications facilities and appropriate land use
regulations to protect the aesthetic integrity and public safety of the County's
residents, visitors and businesses;
11. Establish appropriate zoning requirements, including but not limited to setback and
distance separation requirements, aesthetics, landscaping, land use based location
priorities, and structural design for wireless telecommunications towers and anten-
nas within the County's boundaries, with due consideration to the County's
comprehensive plan, zoning map, existing land uses and environmentally sensitive
areas, including hurricane preparedness areas;
12. Establish setback and distance separation requirements for towers that do not
exceed the minimum distance necessary to satisfy structural safety or aesthetic
concerns;
13. Adopt regulations that are consistent with applicable federal and state laws,
including but not limited to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which as set forth
in 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B)(iv), expressly preempts, state and local government
regulation of the placement, construction, and modification of personal wireless
service facilities on the basis of the environmental effects of radio frequency
emissions to the extent that such facilities comply with the FCC's regulations
concerning such emissions, and F.S. § 365.172(13);
14. Establish procedural requirements and substantive criteria applicable for the review
and approval or denial of applications for eligible facilities modification;
15. Ensure that application submittal requirements for eligible facilities modifications
are related to information reasonably necessary to the determination of whether or
not the proposed modification will result in a substantial change in the physical
dimensions of the eligible structure;
16. Exempt facilities modifications approved under this section as eligible facilities
requests from zoning and development regulations that are inconsistent with Section
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Supp. No. 16 7:155 Adopted May 19, 2009
7.10.23 ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
6409 of the Spectrum Act, Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act ("Spectrum
Act") (PL -122-96; codified at 47 U.S.C. § 1455(a)) and FCC orders promulgated
thereto, codified at 47 C.F.R. § 1.40001;
17. Establish specific regulations, which are limited to Section 7.10.23(U) in this section,
for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensed amateur radio; and
18. Preserve the County's right to continue to enforce and condition approvals pursuant
to this Section on compliance with generally applicable building, structural, electri-
cal, and safety codes and with other laws codifying objective standards reasonably
related to health, safety and welfare.
In furtherance of these goals, the County will at all times give due consideration to the
County's Comprehensive Plan, zoning maps, existing land uses, and environmentally
sensitive areas, including hurricane preparedness areas, in approving sites for the location
of towers and antennas.
B. Definitions. The terms used in this Section will have the meanings set forth in the
Land Development Code, Chapter II, Definitions, Section 2.00.00, Definitions.
C. General.
1. Telecommunications towers may be located as a permitted use in the "AG -5"
Agricultural -5, "IL" Industrial Light, "IH" Industrial Heavy, and "U" Utility Zoning
Districts subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.23. Telecommunications towers
may be located as a conditional use, subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.23
and Section 11.07.00, in all remaining zoning districts. A proposed telecommunica-
tions tower in a residential zoned district must be stealth and may be approved as a
conditional use. A proposed telecommunications tower must include the attachment
of a wireless communications facility such as antennas to be used for the provision of
wireless telecommunications services. A proposed telecommunications tower that
does not include wireless communications facilities to be used for the provision of
wireless telecommunications service shall not be approved in any zoning district.
2. Priority Siting Locations.
a. Any new wireless telecommunications facility including but not limited to a
tower shall be subject to a determination of the appropriate siting location
priorities range from 1 to 7, with the preferred siting location found in Priority
1 and the least desirable siting location found in Priority 7. In the event that a
proposed wireless communications facility or tower cannot be sited to comply
with a location in Priority 1, the development application shall demonstrate
why a lower priority site is necessary. The information to demonstrate why a
higher siting priority is not possible shall include the information set forth in
subsection 7.23.10(C)(6)(a). In addition, the collocation preference set forth in
subsection 7.23.10(C)(5) shall take precedence over the siting of a new Tower in
any siting priority.
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DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT STANDARDS 7.10.23
b. Priority 1. Collocation of a wireless communications facility on existing towers
or antenna support structures is preferred. Notwithstanding this provision, a
tower or wireless communications facility on County -owned property, not
including property within the public rights-of-way, with an appropriate agree-
ment with the County, shall be considered a Priority 1 siting location. Nothing
herein shall require that the County provide access to County -owned or
controlled property. Only when it can be demonstrated that there are no
feasible existing towers, structures or site on County -owned property for the
proposed tower, can an applicant propose a lower priority site for a proposed
tower.
C. Priority 2. If a proposed wireless tower or communications facility cannot
comply with a site specified in Priority 1, the applicant may propose a new
monopole or stealth tower on property designated "AG -5" Agricultural -5, "IL"
Industrial Light, "IH" Industrial Heavy, and "U" Utility on the zoning map.
d. Priority 3. If a proposed wireless communications facility cannot comply with
Priorities 1 or 2, the applicant may propose a new monopole or stealth tower on
property designated "CG" Commercial General, "CO" Commercial Office, or
"CN" Commercial Neighborhood on the zoning map.
e. Priority 4. If a proposed new telecommunications tower cannot comply with
Priority 1, 2, or 3, the applicant may propose a new monopole or stealth tower
on property within any other zoning district, other than residential zoning
district on the zoning map, unless specifically excluded.
f. Priority 5. If a proposed new telecommunications tower cannot comply with
Priority 1, 2, 3, or 4 the applicant may propose a new tower (that does not have
to be a monopole or stealth tower) on property owned by the County or on
property designated "AG -5" Agricultural -5, "IL" Industrial Light, "IH" Industrial
Heavy, and "U" Utility, "CG" Commercial General, "CO," Commercial Office, or
"CN" Commercial Neighborhood on the zoning map.
g. Priority 6. If a proposed new telecommunications tower cannot comply with
Priority 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, the applicant may propose a new tower (that does not
have to be a monopole or stealth tower) on property within any other zoning
district, other than residential zoning on the zoning map.
h. Priority 7. If a proposed new telecommunications tower cannot comply with
Priority 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, the applicant may propose a new stealth tower on
property within a residential zoning district on the zoning map in a location
that would minimize adverse impacts on adjacent residential properties.
3. Telecommunications towers may be located as a permitted use on the same property
as another use. A different existing use on the same lot or parcel that is proposed to
have a telecommunications tower located on it shall not preclude the installation of
that telecommunication tower if the other requirements of this section can be met.
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 7:157 Adopted May 19, 2009
7.10.23 ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
4. Broadcasting Facilities/Receive Only Antennas. This ordinance will not govern any
telecommunications tower, or the installation of any antenna, that is for the use of a
broadcasting facility or is used exclusively for receiving only antennas. Telecom-
munications facilities owned by the County shall not be subject to this Section
7.10.23, except as specifically referred to herein to the extent not inconsistent with
applicable law.
5. Except to the extent not consistent with applicable law, the County hereby
establishes a preference for the use of approved pre-existing towers, structures and
technologies when feasible for the applicant's proposed wireless telecommunications
service, as opposed to the construction of new towers, with respect to all siting
priorities. Collocation of antennas by more than one (1) provider on pre-existing
telecommunications towers, structures, or technologies shall take precedence over
the construction of new telecommunications towers. Accordingly, each application
shall include a written report certified by a professional licensed engineer licensed to
practice in the State of Florida, stating that the applicant has reviewed the County's
inventory of existing towers, antennas and approved sites within the search area for
collocation opportunities on an existing site, and that no existing tower or structure
within the search area of the proposed site can accommodate, or be modified to
accommodate the applicant's proposed facility.
6. Inventory of Existing Sites.
a. Each applicant shall review the County's inventory of pre-existing towers,
antennas, and approved sites. All requests for sites other than the inventory
shall include specific information concerning the location, height, and design of
the proposed telecommunications tower. No new telecommunications tower
shall be approved unless the applicant demonstrates to the reasonable satisfac-
tion of the County that no pre-existing tower, structure or economically or
technically feasible alternative technology that does not require the use of new
telecommunications tower or new structures can accommodate, or be modified
to accommodate, the applicant's proposed antenna. Evidence submitted to
demonstrate that no pre-existing telecommunications tower, structure or
alternative technology is suitable shall consist of any of the following:
i. An affidavit demonstrating that the applicant made diligent efforts but
was unable to obtain permission to install or collocate the applicant's
telecommunications facilities on County owned telecommunications towers
or usable antenna support located within as applicable, the search area or
a one mile radius of the proposed telecommunications tower site.
ii. An affidavit demonstrating that the applicant made diligent efforts to
install or collocate the applicant's telecommunications facilities on pre-
existing towers or useable antenna support structures owned by other
persons located within as applicable, the search area or a one -mile radius
of the proposed telecommunications tower site, but was unable to obtain
permission.
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iii. Pre-existing towers or structures do not have sufficient structural strength
and cannot reasonably be modified to support applicant's proposed
antenna and related equipment as demonstrated by supporting plans and
calculations by a licensed engineer experienced in the design of wireless
telecommunications facilities.
iv. The applicant's proposed antenna would cause interference with the
antenna on the pre-existing towers or structures, or the antenna on the
pre-existing towers or structures would cause interference with the
applicant's proposed antenna and such interference cannot reasonably be
eliminated as demonstrated by a licensed engineer.
V. The fees, costs, or contractual provisions required by the owner in order to
share an existing tower or structure or to adapt an existing tower or
structure for sharing are unreasonable. Costs exceeding new tower
development are presumed to be unreasonable.
vi. The applicant demonstrates with support from a licensed engineer that no
pre-existing tower or structure located within the search area has the
capacity to provide reasonable technical service, is of sufficient height to
meet applicable requirements, or there are other limiting factors that
render pre-existing towers or structures unsuitable.
vii. The applicant demonstrates that alternative technology used in the
wireless telecommunications business and within the scope of applicant's
FCC license, is economically or technically not feasible.
7. No signals, artificial lights, or illuminations shall be permitted on any tower or
antenna unless required by the FAA or other applicable authority. If lighting is
required, the lighting alternatives and design chosen must cause the least disturbance
to the surrounding views.
8. Other than warning signs, no signs, including commercial advertising, logos, political
signs, flyers, or banners shall be allowed on any part of a telecommunications tower.
Any signs placed in violation of this section shall be removed at the expense of the
owner.
All warning signage shall conform with the requirements of Chapter 9.00.00 of this
Code. Notwithstanding those requirements, the following provisions shall apply:
a. The warning signs may be attached to free standing poles if the content of the
signs may be obstructed by landscaping.
b. The County reserves the right to modify or waive the above requirements to
avoid visual clutter and to better apply the goals of this section.
C. Warning signs shall include the name of the owner(s) and operators and a
twenty -four-hour emergency telephone number posted adjacent to the gate.
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d. If high voltage is necessary for the operation of the telecommunications tower or
any accessory structures, "HIGH VOLTAGE—DANGER" warning signs shall be
permanently attached to the fence or wall surrounding the structure and spaced
no more than forty (40) feet apart.
e. "NO TRESPASSING" warning signs shall be permanently attached to the fence
or wall and spaced no more than forty (40) feet apart.
f. The height of the lettering of the warning signs shall be at least twelve (12)
inches in height. The warning signs shall be installed at least five (5) feet above
the finished grade.
9. Parking shall be in compliance with Section 7.05.00 and 7.06.00 of this Code.
10. All telecommunications towers, and the accessory building(s) and/or equipment
associated with the towers, shall be enclosed by opaque security fencing eight (8) feet
in height and the tower shall be equipped with an appropriate anti climbing device,
regardless of the zoning district in which the tower is located, provided, however, the
County may waive such requirements.
11. Telecommunication tower setbacks and separation standards, as provided in Sec-
tions 7.10.23(N) and 7.10.23(0)(1) of this Code shall be calculated and applied to
telecommunications tower facilities located in the County irrespective of municipal
and county jurisdictional boundaries.
12. Telecommunications towers shall be regulated and permitted pursuant to this
Section and shall not be regulated as essential services, public utilities, or private
utilities.
13. Owners and/or operators of towers shall certify that all licenses required by law for
the construction and/or operation of a wireless communications system in the County
have been obtained and shall file a copy of all required licenses with the County.
D. Applications for New Wireless Telecommunications Towers and Antennas.
1. Prior to submitting an application for a new tower or antenna, the applicant shall
engage in a pre -submission meeting with the County Administrator. At the
discretion of the County Administrator, such meeting may be waived, or may be
conducted via telephone or electronic communications. The County shall grant or
deny each properly completed application for any wireless communications facility,
not otherwise subject to subsection K, based on the applicant's compliance with the
County's applicable regulations, including but not limited to land development
regulations, consistent with this subsection and within the normal time frame for a
similar type of review but in no case later than ninety (90) business days after the
date the application is determined to be properly completed in accordance with this
paragraph.
2. a. Completeness of Applications. An application is deemed submitted or resubmit-
ted on the date the application is received by the County. If the County does not
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notify the applicant in writing that the application is not completed in
compliance with the County's regulations within twenty (20) business days
after the date the application is initially submitted or additional information
resubmitted, the application is deemed, for administrative purposes only, to be
properly completed and properly submitted. However, the determination shall
not be deemed as an approval of the application. If the application is not
completed in compliance with the County's regulations, the County shall so
notify the applicant in writing and the notification must indicate with
specificity any deficiencies in the required documents or deficiencies in the
content of the required documents or deficiencies in the content of the required
documents which, if cured, make the application properly completed. Upon
resubmission of information to cure the stated deficiencies, the County shall
notify the applicant, in writing, within the normal time frame of review, but in
no case longer than twenty (20) business days after the additional information
is submitted, of any remaining deficiencies that must be cured. Deficiencies in
document type or content not specified by the County do not make the
application incomplete. Notwithstanding this subparagraph, if a specified
deficiency is not properly cured when the applicant resubmits its application to
comply with the notice of deficiencies, the County may continue to request the
information until such time as the specified deficiency is cured. The County
may establish reasonable time frames within which the required information to
cure the application deficiency is to be provided or the application will be
considered withdrawn or closed.
b. Supplements to Applications. If an application is subject to a state or federal
timeframe for review and determination (i.e. "shot clock"), to allow sufficient
time for review, an applicant may not submit corrected, new or supplemental
materials without the consent of the County Administrator, unless an applicant
was notified that the application was incomplete. The County Administrator
may determine not to review or to provide comment on corrected, new or
supplemental materials after the application is scheduled for a public hearing
without good cause.
3. The time frames specified in this subsection D may be extended only to the extent
that the application has not been granted or denied because the County's procedure
generally applicable to all other similar types of applications permits, require action
by the Board of County Commissioners and such action has not taken place within
the time frames specified. Under such circumstances, the County will act to either
grant or deny the application at its next regularly scheduled meeting automatically.
The County may request, but not require, a waiver of the timeframes by the
applicant, except that, with respect to a specific application, a one-time waiver may
be required in the case of a declared local, state, or federal emergency that directly
affects the administration of all permitting activities of the County. Applicants may
request a subsequent or additional pre -application conference with the County. Such
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request shall be submitted with a non-refundable fee of five hundred dollars
($500.00) to reimburse the County for the cost and fees incurred by the such
conference.
4. It is the County's intention that the requirements of this Section 7.10.23 shall not
prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the ability of a service provider to provide
wireless services in violation of federal law. If an applicant maintains that
compliance with one (1) or more of the provisions of this section will prohibit or have
the effect of prohibiting the provision of wireless services in violation of federal law,
the applicant may apply for a variance to be exempted from the requirements of one
(1) or more provisions of this section for its proposed wireless telecommunications
facility or tower. In such circumstances, the applicant shall include an affidavit from
a licensed engineer specifying in detail why such provisions would prohibit or have
the effect of prohibiting the provision of wireless service and what modifications or
exemptions, if any, to the provisions of this section may be necessary. The County
shall review such application for a variance pursuant to the County's procedures for
processing variances. The timeframes for review and approval of an application
contained herein, shall not apply to an application for a variance.
E. Building Codes l Safety Standards. The construction, maintenance, operation and
repair of telecommunications facilities are subject to the supervision of the County to the
extent not otherwise prohibited by F.S. § 365.172, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 or the
Spectrum Act, and shall be performed in compliance with all applicable laws, ordinances,
departmental rules and regulations and practices affecting such structures including, but
not limited to, zoning codes, building codes, and safety codes, and as provided below.
1. All telecommunication towers must meet or exceed current standards and regula-
tions of the FAA, the FCC, including radio frequency emission standards and
regulations of the state or federal government with the authority to regulate towers
prior to issuance of a building permit by the County. If such applicable standards and
regulations are changed, then the owners of the telecommunications towers governed
by this ordinance shall bring such towers and antennas into compliance with such
revised standards within six (6) months of the effective date of such standards and
regulations, unless a different compliance schedule is mandated by the controlling
state or federal agency. Unless otherwise prohibited by applicable federal or state
law, failure to bring towers and antennas into compliance with such revised
standards and regulations shall constitute a violation of this ordinance and grounds
for the removal of the tower at the expense of the owner.
2. To ensure the structural integrity of telecommunications towers, the owner shall
construct and maintain the telecommunications tower in compliance with all
applicable building codes, other applicable codes and standards as amended from
time to time. A statement shall be submitted to the County by a professional licensed
engineer certifying compliance with this subsection. Where a preexisting structure,
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including light and power poles, is requested as a camouflage facility by the owner,
the facility, and all modifications thereof, shall comply with all requirements as
provided in this section.
3. Although the County will not require wireless providers to provide evidence of a
wireless communications facility's compliance with federal regulations except evidence
of compliance with applicable Federal Aviation Administration requirements, and
evidence of proper FCC license or other evidence of FCC authorized spectrum use,
the County may request the FCC to provide information as to a wireless provider's
compliance with federal regulations, as authorized by federal law.
F. Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report. All applicants for new towers and
towers which are modified or reconstructed to accommodate additional antennas shall
submit a written report certified by a professional licensed engineer. The report shall
include: all information required by Section 11.02.09(A)(1), (2), (3) and (5) of the Land
Development Code of St. Lucie County except to the extent such information is determined
to be not applicable by the Building Department or otherwise prohibited by applicable state
or federal law. In addition, the report shall include the following:
1. A site plan of the property within three hundred percent (300%) of the tower height
of the tower drawn to scale prepared in accordance with the requirements of Section
11.02.00 of this Code, including, but not limited to:
a. Site plan development consistent with Section 11.02.00 including:
i. A tax parcel number, legal description of the parent tract and leased
parcel, total acres, and Section/Township/Range of the subject property;
ii. The lease parcel fully dimensioned, including property lines, setbacks,
roads on or adjacent to the subject property, easements;
iii. Outline of all existing buildings, including a purpose (i.e., residential
buildings, garages, accessory structures, etc.) on subject property located
within three hundred percent (300%) of the tower height from the tower;
iv. All existing vegetation, by mass or individually by diameter, measured
four (4) feet from the ground of each stand-alone tree on the subject
property located within three hundred percent (300%) of the tower height
of the tower
V. Proposed/existing security barrier, indicating type and extent as well as point of
controlled entry;
vi. Proposed/existing access easements, utility easements, and parking for the
telecommunications tower;
vii. All proposed changes to the subject property, including grading, vegetation
removal, temporary or permanent roads and driveways, storm water
management facilities and any other construction or development attendant
to the telecommunications tower;
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viii. If applicable, on-site and adjacent land uses, and Comprehensive Plan
classification of the site.
2. Type of Tower and Specifics of Design.
a. Scaled renderings of elevations depicting the design of the tower and associated
equipment including but not limited to the antennas, mounts, equipment
shelters, cable as well as cable runs, fencing, landscaping and security barrier,
if any.
b. A statement that the proposed tower, within a reasonable period following the
completion of construction, will be used for the provision of wireless communica-
tions services. If the applicant or tower owner is not a carrier or provider of
wireless communications services, the application shall include appropriate
documentation confirming that the tower will be used for the attachment of
wireless communications facilities for the provision of wireless communications
services. Such documentation may include a lease or license, with confidential
information redacted, between the tower owner and a provider of wireless
communications services.
C. Materials of the proposed tower specified by generic type and specific treatment
(i.e., anodized aluminum, stained wood, painted fiberglass, etc. These shall be
provided for the antennas, mounts, equipment shelters, cable as well as cable
runs, and security barrier, if any;
d. Colors of the proposed tower represented by a color board or equivalent showing
actual colors proposed. Colors shall be provided for the antennas, mounts,
equipment buildings, cable as well as cable runs, and security barrier, if any;
e. Dimensions of the tower specified for all three (3) directions: height, width and
breadth. These shall be provided for the antennas, mounts, equipment shelters
and security barrier, if any; and
f. A visual impact analysis, with a minimum of two (2) photo digitalization or
photographic superimpositions of the tower within the subject property. The
photo digitalization or photographic superimpositions shall be provided for all
attachments, including: the antennas, mounts, equipment shelters, cables as
well as cable runs, and security barrier, if any for the total height, width and
breadth, as well as at a distance of two hundred fifty (250) feet and five hundred
(500) feet from the subject property line from all properties within that range,
or at other points agreed upon in a pre -application conference.
3. Prior to issuance of a permit, current wind -loading capacity and a projection of
wind -loading capacity using different types of antennas as contemplated by the
applicant. No telecommunications tower shall be permitted or be permitted to be
modified so as to exceed its wind -loading capacity.
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4. A statement that the proposed tower, including reception and transmission func-
tions, will not interfere with the customary transmission or reception of radio,
television or similar services as well as other wireless services enjoyed by adjacent
residential and nonresidential properties.
5. Non-interference with Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities. A wireless
communications facility shall not create interference with any public safety telecom-
munication facility. Any application for a wireless communications facility or tower
pursuant to this article shall include a certification from a licensed engineer that the
proposed facility is not expected to interfere with or obstruct transmissions to and
from existing public safety telecommunications facilities. In the event that an
authorized County official determines that a proposed wireless communications
facility or tower interferes with a public safety telecommunications facility or public
safety communications, the official may recommend denial of the application and set
forth in writing the reasons for the recommendation of denial. In the event that a
constructed wireless communications facility or tower does interfere with public
safety telecommunication facilities, it shall be the responsibility of the owner and/or
permittee of the wireless communications facility or tower which creates the
interference or obstruction to make all necessary repairs, and/or accommodations to
alleviate the problem at the owner/permittee's expense. The County shall be held
harmless in this occurrence. To the extent not inconsistent with applicable law, if the
service provider refuses to rectify interference within twenty-four (24) hours of
receiving notice, said violation shall be considered a zoning violation and all
applicable remedies thereto may be imposed for such violation. In addition, the
County may, in addition to the foregoing, file a complaint with the FCC for resolution
and/or seek an injunction and pursue other actions including criminal sanctions
against the service provider pursuant to Florida law, including but not limited to F.S.
§§ 843.025 and 843.165. Any person who is found to have violated this article shall
be subject to sanctions as provided by applicable law.
6. A statement of compliance with Section 7.10.23(E), all applicable Building Codes,
associated regulations and safety standards. For all towers attached to existing
structures, the statement shall include certification that the structure can support
the load superimposed from the telecommunications tower. Except where provided
herein, all towers shall have the capacity to permit multiple users; at a minimum,
monopole towers shall be able to accommodate two (2) users and, at a minimum,
self-support/lattice or guyed towers shall be able to accommodate three (3) users.
7. Any additional information reasonably deemed necessary by the County to assess
compliance with this Code and applicable law.
8. Special fee. The County shall have the right to retain independent technical
consultants and experts that it deems necessary to properly evaluate applications for
individual towers. The special fee shall be based upon the hourly rate of the
independent technical consultant or expert the County deems necessary to properly
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evaluate applications for a tower or towers. The special fee shall be applied to those
applications requiring special review or evaluation. The special fee shall be paid by
the applicant to the County.
G. Aesthetics. All telecommunications towers and antennas shall meet the following
requirements:
1. At a telecommunications tower site, the design of the buildings and related
structures shall use materials, textures, screening, and landscaping that will blend
them into the natural setting and surrounding buildings to minimize the visual
impact. Towers and any accessory buildings shall retain their silver/grey factory
finish, or subject to any applicable standards of the FAA, be finished or painted in
stealth or neutral tone colors, so as to reduce visual obtrusiveness.
2. Except as noted in paragraphs 3 and 4 below; all telecommunications tower sites
must comply with the landscaping and screening requirements of the Land
Development Code. The Environmental Resources Director shall require landscap-
ing in excess of any written requirements as is deemed reasonably necessary in order
to enhance compatibility with adjacent residential and nonresidential land uses. All
landscaping shall be properly maintained to ensure good health and viability at the
expense of the owner. Telecommunications tower facilities shall be landscaped with
a buffer of plant materials that effectively screens the view of the telecommunica-
tions tower compound from property used for residences. The standard buffer shall
consist of a landscaped strip at least ten (10) feet wide outside of the perimeter of the
compound, except that, if the tower compound perimeter abuts a public or private
street or public right-of-way, the minimum buffer width shall be fifteen (15) feet.
Existing mature growth, not including exotics, and natural land forms on the site
shall be preserved to the maximum extent possible. In some cases, such as towers
sited on large, wooded lots, natural growth around the property perimeter may be a
sufficient buffer. The Environmental Resources Director shall be responsible for
determining if the existing native perimeter vegetation meets the intent of this Code.
All areas disturbed during project construction shall be replanted with vegetation
according to Section 7.09.00, of this Code.
If an antenna is installed on a structure other than a telecommunications tower, the
antenna and supporting electrical and mechanical equipment must be of a neutral
color that is identical to, or closely compatible with, the color of the supporting
structure so as to make the antenna and related equipment as visually unobtrusive
as possible.
4. The Board of County Commissioners may consider total or partial relief from the
required perimeter landscaping requirements of paragraph 2 above, if the proposed
telecommunications tower meets all of the following standards and criteria:
a. The telecommunications tower is located in an AG -5, AG -2.5, AG -1, IL, IH or U
Zoning district.
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b. The proposed telecommunications tower is located a minimum of one thousand
(1,000) feet, or the tower height, whichever is greater, from the nearest public
street or road right-of-way, public park or playground, public or private school
(primary or secondary educational facility), habitable residential structure or
any area zoned for residential or commercial uses. For the purpose of this
paragraph this restriction shall apply to all properties regardless of political
boundary.
C. The proposed telecommunications tower base must be screened from view by
either existing vegetation, intervening buildings, structures or other physical or
made features meeting the intent of this code.
d. It is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Board of County Commissioners
that the planting of any vegetation would result in the high probability of
general plant mortality due to unacceptable soil conditions that cannot
otherwise be resolved through replacement of the soil or other form of soil
treatment. In considering any request for relief under the provisions of this
section, the Board of County Commissioners may impose reasonable limiting
conditions associated with that relief.
5. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to wireless facilities erected or
attached to any existing telecommunications tower or existing building or structure
except that any support buildings or structures for the additional antenna or
antenna arrays must be screened compliant with the intent of this code.
6. The County reserves the right to require that any new towers be designed as stealth
or camouflaged tower. All new telecommunications towers, equipment buildings, and
antennas in a residential zoning district must be stealth or camouflaged.
7. Cell on Wheels ("COW"). Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section
7.10.23, the County Administrator may allow the installation of a cell -on -wheels in
accordance with the following:
a. During documented states of emergency as declared by the County Administra-
tor;
b. To continue the provision of personal wireless service during construction or
maintenance of a wireless communications facility;
C. For testing purposes;
d. For special events; or
e. As otherwise authorized by the FCC.
The County Administrator is limited to allowing the installation of each cell -on -
wheels for up to ninety (90) total days. Approval by the County Administrator of a
COW on County property shall not convey any title, equitable or legal, in County
property. The Board of County Commissioners may extend the period of time in
which a cell -on -wheels is allowed for good cause by resolution. The owner of the
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cell -on -wheels shall agree to indemnify the County and shall provide appropriate
evidence of insurance and the fund in compliance with subsection H of this section.
H. Security Fund. Every telecommunications service provider shall establish a cash
security fund, or provide the County with an irrevocable letter of credit in the same amount,
to secure the cost of removing an antenna, antenna array, or tower that has been determined
to be abandoned under Section 7.10.23(R), in the event the owner fails to comply with the
provisions of Section 7.10.23(R). The amount of the cash security fund or letter of credit to
be provided as follows:
1. For each commercial telecommunication tower, cell -on -wheels, and the
initial set of antenna or antenna array .............................. $25,000.00
2. For each co -located telecommunication provider's antenna or antenna
array.............................................................. 5,000.00
I. General Requirements for the Location of New Wireless Telecommunications Towers on
County Property. In addition to the other standards of this section, every new telecommunica-
tions tower proposed for location on any property owned, leased, and/or controlled by St.
Lucie County shall be subject to the following minimum standards:
1. Lease Required. Any new construction, installation or placement of a telecommunica-
tions facility on any property owned, leased, and/or controlled by the County shall
require a lease agreement executed by the County and the owner of the facility.
Notwithstanding any provision in the County Code to the contrary, subject to
applicable state and federal law, telecommunications towers shall not be allowed in
the public rights-of-way controlled by the County. The County may require, as a
condition of entering into a lease agreement with a telecommunications services
provider, the dedication of space on the facility for public health and safety purposes,
as well as property improvements on the leased space. Any dedications and
improvements shall be negotiated prior to execution of the lease.
2. Incentive to collocate facilities on County property. Pursuant to the intent of this
ordinance, the County shall provide the following incentives to tenants in order to
encourage the collocation of telecommunications facilities on County -owned property:
a. The County shall not require that proposed tenants seeking to co -locate on
wireless towers on County -owned property pay rent to the facility owner in
excess of the fair market value for the space, as determined at the time of
execution of the lease.
b. The County may receive a percentage of the rental fees received by the
telecommunications facility operators from each subsequent tenant at a single
telecommunications facility located on County property consistent with such
lease or sublease of County -owned property. Fees for placement, installation
and use of telecommunications towers and antennas shall be determined by
resolution of the Board.
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C. No lease or sublease granted under this section shall convey any exclusive
right, privilege, permit or franchise to occupy or use the public lands of the
County for delivery of telecommunications services or any other purpose. The
County cannot and hereby expressly does not waive or relinquish any of its land
use, regulatory, permitting and police power authority, approval or enforcement
rights and obligations, as they may relate to government regulations of general
applicability which may govern property subject to a lease or sublease with the
County, any improvements thereon, or any operations on the property. Nothing
in any lease or sublease with the County shall be deemed to create an
affirmative duty of the County to abrogate its right to exercise its police power
and governmental powers by approving or disapproving or taking any other
action in accordance with its zoning and land use codes, administrative codes,
ordinances, rules and regulations, federal laws and regulations, state laws and
regulations and grant agreements, as they may be amended.
d. No lease granted under this section shall convey any right, title, or interest in
the public lands other than a leasehold interest, but shall be deemed only to
allow the use of the public lands for the limited purpose and term stated in the
lease agreement. No lease granted under this section shall be construed as a
conveyance of a fee title interest in the property.
e. The Board of County Commissioners may adopt by resolution a standard fee
schedule to be used in the calculation of lease rates for the use of County
property for establishing a telecommunications tower site.
3. Indemnification and insurance requirements.
Indemnification
a. The County shall not enter into any lease agreement or otherwise allowing
tower siting by a telecommunications service provider until and unless the
County obtains an adequate indemnification from such provider. This indemnifica-
tion must at least:
i. Release the County from and against any and all liability and responsibil-
ity in or arising out of the construction, operation, or repair of the
telecommunications facility. Each telecommunications facility operator
must further agree not to use or seek any money or damages from the
County in connection with the above mentioned matter;
ii. Indemnify and hold harmless the County, its elected and appointed
officers, agents, servants and employees, from and against any and all
claims, demands, or causes of action whatsoever kind or nature, and the
resulting losses, costs, expenses, reasonable attorney's fees, liabilities,
damages, orders, judgments or decrees, sustained by the County or any
third party arising out of, or by reason of, or resulting from, or out of each
telecommunications facility operator's, or its agent's, employee's, or servant's
negligent acts, errors, or omissions; and
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iii. Provide that the covenants and representations relating to the indemnifica-
tion provision shall survive the term of any agreement and continue in full
force and effect as to the responsibility of the party to indemnify.
Insurance
a. The County may not enter into any lease agreement, or otherwise authorize a
tower site by any telecommunications service provider until and unless the
County obtains assurance that such operator (and those acting on its behalf)
have adequate insurance as determined by the County Personnel/Risk Manager.
At a minimum, the following insurance requirements shall be satisfied:
i. A telecommunications facility operator shall not commence construction or
operation of the facility without obtaining all insurance required under
this section and approval of such insurance by the County Personnel/Risk
Manager, nor shall a telecommunications facility operator allow any
contractor or subcontractor to commence work on its contract or subcontract
until all similar such insurance required of the same has been obtained
and approved by the County Personnel/Risk Manager. The required
insurance must be obtained and maintained for the entire period the
telecommunications facility is in existence. If the operator, its contractors
or subcontractors do not have the required insurance, the County may
order such entities to cease operation of the facility until such insurance is
obtained and approved.
ii. Certificate(s) of such insurance, reflecting evidence of the required insur-
ance shall be filed with the County personnel/Risk Manager. For entities
that are entering the market, the certificates shall be filed prior to the
commencement of construction and once a year thereafter, and as provided
below in the event of a lapse in coverage.
iii. The certificate(s) of insurance shall contain a provision that coverages
afforded under such policies shall not be cancelled until at least thirty (30)
days prior written notice has been given to the County. All insurance
policies shall be issued by companies authorized to do business under the
laws of the State of Florida.
iv. Where applicable, in the event that the insurance certificate provided
indicates that the insurance shall terminate or lapse during the term of
the lease agreement with the County, then in that event the telecommunica-
tions facility operator shall furnish, at least thirty (30) days prior to the
expiration of the date of such insurance, a renewed certificate of insurance
as proof that equal and like coverage remains in effect for the balance of
the lease term.
b. A telecommunications facility operator and its contractors or subcontracts
engaged in work on the operator's behalf, shall maintain minimum insurance,
in the amounts determined by the County Personnel/Risk Manager, to cover
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liability, bodily injury and property damage. The insurance shall cover the
following exposures: premises, operations, and certain contracts. Such coverage
shall be written on an occurrence basis and shall also be required under any
lease agreement between the County and the telecommunications facility
operator.
J. Initial Wireless Telecommunications Antennas on Existing Structures. Any telecom-
munications antenna which is not attached to a tower may be approved by the building
official following a building permit review as an accessory use to any commercial, industrial,
institutional, or multi -family structure of three (3) or more stories provided:
1. The antenna does not extend more than twenty (20) feet above the highest point of
the structure; and
2. The antenna complies with all applicable FCC and FAA regulations and all
applicable building codes; and
3. Wall -mounted antennas shall be located as close as possible but no more than four (4)
feet from the face of the wall of the building to which it is attached; and
4. To minimize adverse visual impacts, antenna types shall be selected based upon the
following priority: (1) camouflage; (2) whip; (3) panel; and, (4) dish. An applicant for
the construction of a telecommunications tower shall state in writing why each
choice cannot be used for a particular application if that choice is not the top priority;
and
5. Microwave dish antennas located less than sixty-five (65) feet above the ground may
not exceed six (6) feet in diameter. Microwave dish antennas located sixty-five (65)
feet and higher above the ground may not exceed eight (8) feet in diameter.
Ground -mounted dish antennas must be located or screened so as not to be visible
from abutting public streets; and
6. No signals, lights, or illumination shall be permitted on an antenna or equipment
building unless required by the Federal Communications Commission or the Federal
Aviation Administration. Security lighting around the base of the antenna and
equipment building may be provided if such light conforms to the overspill
requirement in the County Code.
K. Colocation of Wireless Antennas on Existing Towers and Structures. An antenna which
is attached to an existing tower and that is not subject to subsection M, Proposed Facilities
Modifications, shall be approved provided such collocation is accomplished in a manner
consistent with the following:
1. a. The County shall grant or deny each properly completed application that is not
subject to subsection M, Proposed Facilities Modifications, as provided in this
Section, for the collocation of a wireless communications facility within the
County's jurisdiction within the normal time frame for a similar building
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permit review but in no case later than forty-five (45) business days after the
date the application is determined to be properly completed in accordance with
the County's application procedures provided the following.
b. Collocations on towers, including non -conforming towers that meet the require-
ments in subparagraphs (b)(i) through (b)(iii) below, are subject to only building
permit review, which may include a review for compliance with this subparagraph,
such collocations are not subject to any design or placement requirements of the
County's land development regulations in effect at the time of the collocation
that are more restrictive than those in effect at the time of the initial antennas
placement approval, to any other portion of the land development regulations,
or to public hearing review. This subparagraph shall not preclude a public
hearing for any appeal of the decision on the collocation application, provided
the following:
i. The collocation does not increase the height of the tower to which the
antennas are to be attached, measured to the highest point of any part of
the tower or any existing antenna attached to the tower; and
ii. The collocation does not increase the ground space area, commonly known
as the compound, approved in the site plan for equipment enclosures and
ancillary facilities; and
iii. The collocation consists of antennas, equipment enclosures, and ancillary
facilities that are of a design and configuration consistent with all
applicable regulations, restrictions, or conditions, if any, applied to the
initial antennas placed on the tower and to its accompanying equipment
enclosures and ancillary facilities and, if applicable, applied to the tower
supporting the antenna. Such regulations may include the design and
aesthetic requirements, but not procedural requirements, other than those
authorized by this section, of the County's land development regulations in
effect at the time the initial antennas placement was approved.
C. Except for a historic building, structure, site, object, or district, a collocation on
all other existing structures that meet the requirements in subparagraphs (c)(i)
through (c)(iv) below shall be subject to no more than building permit review,
and an administrative review for compliance with this subparagraph. Such
collocations are not subject to any portion of the County's land development
regulations not addressed herein, or to public hearing review. Nothing herein
shall preclude a public hearing for any appeal of the decision on the collocation
application:
i. The collocation does not increase the height of the existing structure to
which the antennas are to be attached, measured to the highest point of
any part of the structure or any existing antenna attached to the structure;
ii. The collocation does not increase the ground space area, otherwise known
as the compound, if any, approved in the site plan for equipment
enclosures and ancillary facilities;
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iii. The collocation consists of antenna, equipment enclosures, and ancillary
facilities that are of a design and configuration consistent with any
applicable structural or aesthetic design requirements and any require-
ments for location on the structure, but not prohibitions or restrictions on
the placement of additional collocations on the existing structure or
procedural requirements, other than those authorized by this section, of
the County's land development regulations in effect at the time of the
collocation application; and
iv. The collocation consists of antenna, equipment enclosures, and ancillary
facilities that are of a design and configuration consistent with all
applicable restrictions or conditions, if any, that do not conflict with
subparagraph (c) and were applied to the initial antenna placed on the
structure and its accompanying equipment enclosures and ancillary
facilities and, if applicable, applied to the structure supporting the
antennas.
d. Regulations, restrictions, conditions, or permits of the County, acting in its
regulatory capacity, that limit the number of collocations or require review
processes inconsistent with this subsection, shall not apply to collocations
addressed in this paragraph.
e. If only a portion of the collocation does not meet the requirements of this
subparagraph, such as an increase in the height of the proposed antenna over
the existing structure height or a proposal to expand the ground space approved
in the site plan for the equipment enclosure, where all other portions of the
collocation meet the requirements of this subparagraph, the portion of the
collocation only may be reviewed under the County's regulations applicable to
an initial placement of that portion of the facility, including, but not limited to,
its land development regulations, and within the review time frame specified in
subsection D for the placement of new towers. The rest of the collocation shall
be reviewed in accordance with this subparagraph. A collocation proposed
under this subparagraph that increases the ground space area, otherwise
known as the compound, approved in the original site plan for equipment
enclosures and ancillary facilities by no more than a cumulative amount of four
hundred (400) square feet or fifty percent (50%) of the original compound size,
whichever is greater, shall, however, require no more than administrative
review for compliance with the County's regulations, including, but not limited
to, land development regulations review, and building permit review, with no
public hearing. This subparagraph shall not preclude a public hearing for any
appeal of the decision on the collocation application.
f. If a collocation does not meet the requirements of subparagraph (K)(1)(b) and
(c), the County may review the application under the County's regulations,
including, but not limited to, land development regulations, applicable to the
placement of an initial antennas and its accompanying equipment enclosure
and ancillary facilities.
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g. If a collocation meets the requirements of subparagraph (K)(1)(b) and (c), the
collocation shall not be considered a modification to an existing structure or an
impermissible modification of a nonconforming structure.
h. The owner of the existing tower on which the proposed antennas are to be
collocated shall remain responsible for compliance with any applicable condi-
tion or requirement of a permit or agreement, or any applicable condition or
requirement of the land development regulations to which the existing tower
had to comply at the time the tower was permitted, including any aesthetic
requirements, provided the condition or requirement is not inconsistent with
this paragraph.
An existing tower, including a nonconforming tower, may be structurally
modified in order to permit collocation or may be replaced through no more than
site plan and building permit review process for approval, and is not subject to
public hearing review, if the overall height of the tower is not increased and, if
a replacement, the replacement tower is a monopole tower or, if the existing
tower is a camouflaged tower, the replacement tower is a like -camouflaged
tower. The subparagraph shall not preclude a public hearing for any appeal of
the decision on the application.
2. An existing tower may be structurally modified or rebuilt up to the same height or to
a taller height, to accommodate the collocation of an additional antenna(s), only if
the modification or reconstruction is in full compliance with Building Code and
requirements consistent with the original site approval process including but not
limited to submission of a site plan and compliance with any stealth requirements.
The County shall require a modified setback based on the modification or increased
height of the tower to accommodate structural safety or aesthetic concerns. The
County shall review an application to increase the height of an existing tower or
substantially modify an existing tower under the County's regulations, including,
but not limited to, land development regulations applicable to the placement of a new
tower, to the extent not inconsistent with applicable law.
3. A tower which is being rebuilt to accommodate the collocation of an additional
antenna may be moved on site within fifty (50) feet of its existing location, subject to
applicable setback and separation requirements. A tower which previously received
a conditional use approval may be rebuilt according to the conditions under which
the conditional use was approved.
4. After the tower is rebuilt to accommodate collocation, only one (1) tower may remain
on the site. The initial tower shall be removed within thirty (30) days of the final
inspection for the new tower.
5. Microwave dish antennas located less than sixty-five (65) feet above the ground may
not exceed six (6) feet in diameter. Microwave dish antennas located sixty-five (65)
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feet and higher above the ground may not exceed eight (8) feet in diameter.
Ground -mounted dish antennas must be located or screened so as not to be visible
from abutting public streets to the extent not inconsistent with applicable law.
L. Rooftop Mounted Telecommunications Towers and Antennas. All rooftop towers and
antennas shall comply with the following requirements:
1. The height of any tower or antenna, including support structures, shall not extend
more than fifteen (15) feet above the average height of the roof line; and
2. Rooftop communication facilities shall not adversely affect adjacent properties; and
3. Screening shall be required to minimize the visual impact upon adjacent properties;
and
4. Rooftop mounted towers and antennas shall only be allowed on buildings that are at
least three stories in height.
M. Proposed Facilities Modification Applications.
1. The County shall approve Proposed Facilities Modification Applications that do not
result in a substantial change of a tower or base station and comply with the
requirements as set forth in this subsection (M).
2. This subsection (M) shall not apply to proposed facility modifications to an eligible
support structure that is not a legal conforming, or legal non -conforming structure at
the time a completed eligible facilities modification application is filed with the
County.
3. This subsection (M) shall not apply to a proposed facility modification to a structure,
other than a tower, that does not, at the time of submittal of the application, already
house or support transmission equipment lawfully installed within, or upon, or
attached to, the structure.
4. Eligible Facilities Modification Application Requirements. Applications for eligible
facilities modification must meet the following standards:
a. All applications for eligible facilities modification shall be in writing and
accompanied by the applicable application and fee established by resolution of
the county commission and attested to by the authorized person submitting the
application on behalf of the applicant, certifying the truth and accuracy of the
information provided in the application.
b. No application for eligible facilities modification shall be approved unless it
includes the following information:
i. The legal and dba names, mailing address, tax identification number, and
contact phone number(s) of applicant.
ii. If a corporation, the name and address of the registered agent of applicant
in the State of Florida and the state of incorporation of the applicant.
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iii. If applicant is an entity, other than a corporation, such a partnership or
limited liability company, the names and business addresses of the
principles.
iv. An assertion that the proposed facilities modification is subject to review
under Section 6409 of the Spectrum Act and that the modification does not
constitute a substantial change to the tower or base station.
V. If the applicant is not the owner or person in control of the eligible support
structure and/or site, the following shall be required:
(1) An attestation that the owner or person in control of the eligible
support structure and/or site has consented to the proposed facilities
modification.
(2) If the eligible support structure is located in a public right-of-way, the
applicant must also attest that applicant has authorization to install,
maintain and operate transmission equipment in, under and above
the public right-of-way.
vi. If the applicant proposes a modification that will result in an increase in
height of the eligible support structure, the application shall include
record drawings, as built plans, or the equivalent, showing the height of
the eligible support structure: (1) as originally constructed and granted
approval by the County or other applicable local zoning or similar
regulatory authority, or (2) as of the most recent modification that received
County, or other local zoning or regulatory approval, prior to the passage of
the Spectrum Act, whichever height is greater.
vii. If the applicant proposes a modification to an eligible support structure,
which structure, or proposed modification of the same, is subject to
pre-existing restrictions or requirements imposed by a reviewing official or
decision-making body pursuant to authority granted under the County
Code, or an ordinance or a municipal code of another local government
authority, the application shall include a copy of the document (e.g., permit
or conditional approval) setting forth such pre-existing restrictions or
requirements together with a certification that the proposed facilities
modification conforms to such restrictions or requirements; provided that,
such certification shall have no application to the extent the proposed
facilities modification relates solely to an increase in height, increase in
width, addition of cabinets, or new excavation, that does not result in a
substantial change in the physical dimensions of the eligible support
structure.
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viii. If the applicant proposes a modification to an eligible support structure,
which structure, or proposed modification of the same, is subject to
pre-existing concealment restrictions or requirements, or was constructed
with concealment elements, the following shall be required:
(1) Applicant shall set forth the facts and circumstances demonstrating
that the proposed modification would not defeat the existing conceal-
ment elements of the eligible support structure.
(2) If the proposed modification will alter the exterior dimensions or
appearance of the eligible support structure, applicant shall include a
detailed visual simulation depicting how the eligible support structure
will appear after the proposed modification is complete. The visual
simulation shall depict to scale the eligible support structure in
relation to the trees, landscaping and other structures adjacent to, or
in the immediate vicinity of, the eligible support structure.
ix. If the applicant proposes a modification that will protrude from the edge of
a non -tower eligible support structure, the application shall include record
drawings, as -built plans, or the equivalent, showing at a minimum the
edge of the eligible support structure at the location of the proposed
modification.
X. If the applicant proposes a modification to an eligible support structure
that will include any excavation or would result in a protrusion from the
edge of a tower that exceeds an existing protrusion of any transmission
equipment attached to a tower, or would protrude from the edge of a
non -tower eligible support structure, the following shall be required:
(1) A description of the boundaries of the site together with a scale
drawing based on an accurate traverse, with angular and lineal
dimensions, depicting the boundaries of the site in relation to the
tower or base station proposed to be modified and depicting the
proposed location, elevation and dimensions of the new or replace-
ment transmission equipment.
(2) The County may require a survey by a land surveyor licensed in the
State of Florida when, in the judgment of the approval authority, a
survey is reasonably necessary to verify the boundaries of the site to
determine if the proposed facilities modification would result in a
substantial change in the physical dimensions of the eligible support
structure.
xi. If the applicant proposes a modification to the eligible support structure
that includes hardening through structural enhancement, the following
shall be required:
(1) A technical report by a qualified licensed engineer, demonstrating
that the structural enhancement is performed in connection with and
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is necessary to support the proposed collocation, removal, or replace-
ment of transmission equipment and conforms to applicable code
requirements.
(2) The County may retain the services of an independent technical
expert to review, evaluate, and provide an opinion regarding the
applicant's demonstration of necessity.
xii. If the applicant proposes a modification to a tower, the following shall be
required:
(1) A stamped report by a licensed engineer demonstrating that the
tower with the proposed modifications will comply with applicable
structural, electrical and safety codes, including by way of example,
and not limitation, EIA/TIA-222-Revision G, published by the American
National Standards Institute (as amended), allowable wind speed for
the applicable zone in which the tower is located, and describing the
general structural capacity of the tower with the proposed modifica-
tions, including:
(a) The number and type of antennas that can be accommodated;
(b) The basis of calculation of capacity; and
(c) A written statement that the proposed complies with all federal
guidelines regarding interference and ANSI standards as adopted
by the FCC, including but not limited to nonionizing
electromagnetic radiation (NIER) standard.
(2) The County may retain, at the expense of the applicant, the services
of an independent technical expert to review, evaluate and provide an
opinion regarding the applicant's demonstration of compliance.
xiii. If the applicant proposes a modification to a base station, the application
shall include a stamped report by a Florida licensed engineer demonstrat-
ing that the base station, with the proposed modifications, will comply
with applicable structural, electrical and safety codes.
xiv. If the applicant proposes a modification requiring, alteration to the eligible
support structure, excavation, installation of new equipment cabinets, or
any other activities impacting or altering the land, existing structures,
fencing, or landscaping on the site, the following shall be required:
(1) A detailed site plan and drawings, showing the true north point, a
graphic scale and, drawn to an appropriate decimal scale, indicating
and depicting:
(a) The location, elevation and dimensions of the existing eligible
support structure;
(b) The location, elevation and dimensions of the existing transmis-
sion equipment;
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(c) The location, elevation and dimensions of the transmission
equipment, if any, proposed to be collocated or that will replace
existing transmission equipment;
(d) The location, elevation and dimensions of any proposed new
equipment cabinets and the intended use of each;
(e) Any proposed modification to the eligible support structure;
(f) The location of existing structures on the site, including fencing,
screening, trees, and other significant site features; and
(g) The location of any areas where excavation is proposed showing
the elevations, depths, and width of the proposed excavation and
materials and dimensions of the equipment to be placed in the
area excavated.
xv. Copies of any environmental documents required by any federal agency.
These shall include the environmental assessment required by 47 C.F.R.
Part 1 (Part 1—Practice and Procedure), Section 1.1307, as amended, or, in
the event that an FCC environmental assessment is not required, a
statement that described the specific factors that obviate the requirement
for an environmental assessment.
5. Review of Application.
a. The County shall review applications for Eligible Facilities Modification
pursuant to this section, to determine whether the application qualifies.
b. The County shall notify the applicant within thirty (30) days after the date the
application is initially submitted or additional information resubmitted, whether
the application is properly completed in compliance with the County's require-
ments. If the application is not completed in compliance with the County's
requirements, the County shall so notify the applicant in writing delineating all
missing documents and information required in the application that if are cured
would deem the application properly completed.
C. Upon resubmission of information to cure the stated deficiencies, the County
shall notify the applicant, in writing, no later than ten (10) days after the
additional information is submitted, of any remaining deficiencies that must be
cured, delineating missing information. If a specified deficiency is not properly
cured when the applicant resubmits its application to comply with the notice of
deficiencies, the County may continue to request the information until such
time as the specified deficiency is cured, or may establish a reasonable time
frame within which the required information to cure the application deficiency
is to be provided. The timeframe is tolled in the case of second or subsequent
notices pursuant to the procedures identified herein. If the curative information
is not provided within such time frame, the application will be considered
withdrawn or closed and the application will be denied.
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d. Completeness Review; Time Limitation. The County shall grant or deny a
properly completed application for Eligible Facilities Modification within sixty
(60) days of the date of the applicant's submission of an application seeking
approval under this subsection (M), after it is determined to be properly
completed. An application is deemed submitted or resubmitted on the date the
application is received by the County. The sixty (60) day review period begins to
run when the application is filed and may be tolled by mutual agreement of the
County and the applicant or in cases where the County's reviewing body
determines that the applications is incomplete. The timeframe is not tolled by
a moratorium on review of applications.
6. Eligible Facilities Modification Permit. An eligible facilities modification permit
issued pursuant to this subsection (M), and any deemed approved application, shall
be valid for a term of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of issuance, or the
date the application is valid for a term of one hundred eighty (180) days from the date
of issuance, or the date the application is deemed approved.
N. Setbacks. The following setback requirements shall apply to all telecommunications
towers:
1. All telecommunications towers shall be setback from all property lines of the parcel
on which it is to be constructed a minimum distance of one hundred ten percent
(110%) of the fall radius of the tower or the minimum setback for the zoning district
whichever is greater.
2. The setback for the base of any guys for guyed towers and any equipment buildings
must satisfy the minimum zoning district setback requirements.
3. In establishing these setback requirements, the Board of County Commissioners
finds that such setbacks are the minimum distance necessary to satisfy structural
safety and aesthetic concerns for owners of adjacent properties, residents, and users
of nearby public rights-of-way.
O. Separation /Height.
1. In addition to the setback from the property line, the following separation require-
ments shall apply to all telecommunications towers:
a. Separation from off-site/designated areas:
1. Telecommunication tower separation shall be measured from the base of
the proposed telecommunication tower to the lot line of the off-site and/or
designated areas as specified in Table 7-40.
2. Separation requirements for towers shall comply with the minimum
standards established in Table 7-40. The Board of County Commissioners
hereby finds that the separation requirements for towers in Table 7-40 are
the minimum distance necessary to satisfy structural safety and aesthetic
concerns of nearby existing or potential residents.
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Table 7-40
Separation measured from the base of the proposed
750 feet
tower from the property line of a lot with any habitable
residential structure, except for accessory security
residences in IL, IH and U zoning districts
Separation from the property line of vacant land in
750 feet
residential zoning districts
3. The Board of County Commissioners may approve variances from the
separation requirements to habitable residential structures, and to vacant
residentially zoned land, provided that no variance shall permit a
separation distance that is less than the setback requirement.
4. The Board of County Commissioners shall not approve a variance except
upon specific written findings of fact based directly upon the particular
facts submitted to them showing that:
a. A literal interpretation of the provisions of Table 7-40 would render
the applicant in violation of State or Federal law or would preclude
provision of service in the desired area.
b. The granting of the variance will not be detrimental or injurious to
surrounding properties, and will not endanger public safety.
C. The variance is the minimum variance that will make possible
reasonable use of the land, building, and structures; and
d. The variance requested arises from a condition that is unique and
peculiar to the land involved and that it is created by the conditions
of this Code and not by the actions of the property owner or applicant.
The above standards of review are in addition to those general standards set out
in Section 10.01.02 of this Code.
b. Separation distances between telecommunications towers.
1. The separation distance from pre-existing towers including other towers
described in the inventory of existing sites shall be shown on an updated
site plan or map. The applicant shall also identify the type of construction
of the pre-existing tower(s) and the owner/operator of the pre-existing
tower(s), if known.
2. Separation distances between towers shall be applicable for and measured
between the proposed tower and pre-existing towers. The separation
distances shall be measured by drawing or following a straight line
between the center of the base of the pre-existing tower and the center of
the base of the proposed tower, pursuant to a site plan.
3. Each applicant shall review the County's inventory of pre-existing towers,
antennas, and approved sites within the search area. All requests for sites
other than the inventory shall include specific information concerning the
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location, height, and design of the proposed tower. To support the County's
preference for collocation over new towers, no new tower including but not
limited to a stealth tower, shall be permitted within one (1) mile of a
pre-existing tower unless the applicant demonstrates to the reasonable
satisfaction of the County that no pre-existing tower, structure or alterna-
tive technology that does not require the use of new towers or new
structures can accommodate, or be modified to accommodate the applicant's
proposed antenna. The applicant shall also identify the type of construc-
tion of the existing telecommunications tower(s) and the owner/operator of
the existing telecommunications tower(s), if known. Evidence submitted to
demonstrate that no existing tower, structure or alternative technology is
suitable may consist of any of the criteria set forth in subsection
7.10.23(C)(6)(a).
4. The Board of Adjustment may approve variances from the separation
requirement provided that the applicant meets all other provisions of
Section 7.10.23(0).
5. The separation distance of one (1) mile between towers shall not apply to
properties that are proposed to be developed as a "telecommunications
tower farm", in order to encourage clustering of telecommunications
towers on a single property, provided that all other setback and separation
standards as specified in this section are met.
6. Unless otherwise granted a variance, telecommunications towers shall be
constructed no greater than the heights as provided below:
a. For a single user, up to one hundred (100) feet in height;
b. For two (2) users, up to one hundred fifty (150) feet in height;
C. For three (3) or more users, up to two hundred fifty (250) feet.
d. For the purpose of determining compliance with all requirements of
this Section, measurement of telecommunications tower height shall
include the telecommunications tower structure itself, the base pad,
and any other telecommunications facilities attached thereto. Telecom-
munications tower height shall be measured from grade.
P. Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas. It is recognized that each telecommunications
antenna will have some type of associated electronic support and equipment buildings at or
near the telecommunications facility. Depending on the type of facility being erected, the
following general standards shall apply, in addition to the other general provisions of the
code.
1. Rooftop mounted wireless equipment facilities shall comply with the following
requirements:
a. Rooftop equipment/storage cabinets shall be set back a minimum of fifteen (15)
feet from the edge of the roof or one-quarter of the distance along the
perpendicular axis of the roof, whichever is less. The height of the roof must be
at least three (3) stories.
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b. All rooftop equipment buildings shall be stealth, and finished, screened or
designed so that they blend into the architecture of the building on which they
are located.
C. All equipment buildings shall meet all County design standards and comply
with the building codes.
d. No commercial advertising, including company name, shall be allowed on an
antenna, screen or equipment building.
e. No signals, lights, or illumination shall be permitted on an antenna or
equipment building unless required by the Federal Communications Commis-
sion or the Federal Aviation Administration. Security lighting ground the base
of the antenna and equipment building may be provided if such light conforms
to the overspill requirement in the County Code.
f. The only signage that may be permanently attached to the building shall be for
the purpose of identifying the party responsible for operation and maintenance
of the facility, its address, and telephone number for safety and security and
shall comply with this Code.
g. Mobile or stationary equipment not located within the building upon which the
antenna is mounted, or in an equipment building or cabinet, shall not be stored
or parked on the site of a building mounted antenna, unless repairs to the
antenna are being made.
2. Proposed antennas located on power poles, street lights or other utility poles and
equipment cabinets in the public rights-of-way shall comply with the requirements
set forth in the St. Lucie County Communications Rights -of -Way Ordinance, Chapter
44, Article I, Sections 44-1-44-18, of the County Code, as it may be amended.
3. Antennas located on towers shall comply with the following requirements:
a. Equipment/storage facilities shall comply with the minimum building setback
standards of the zoning district in which they are located. This requirement
may be modified by the Board of Adjustment to encourage collocation.
b. All equipment/storage facilities shall be screened in accordance with the
general requirements of Section 7.09.00.
4. Generators may be used only when other power sources are not available, and as an
emergency back-up power source and shall comply with County Code.
Q. Supplemental Review Information for Wireless Telecommunications Tower Conditional
Use Applications. In addition to the minimum standards of review set forth in this section,
any application for a conditional use permit for the construction of a telecommunications
tower shall address the following standards and requirements:
1. Compliance with the procedures and requirements of Section 11.07.00.
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2. Availability of suitable existing towers, other structures, or economically and
technically feasible alternative technologies not requiring the use of towers or
structures.
3. Height of the proposed tower.
4. Setback and separation distance between the proposed tower and the nearest
residential units, residential district boundaries, and platted residentially zoned
property, where applicable.
5. Typography of the area where the tower is proposed to be located.
6. Type, extent and density of existing native vegetation at the proposed site and the
surrounding tree coverage and foliage.
7. Design of the tower, with particular reference to design characteristics that have the
effect of reducing or eliminating visual obtrusiveness. Camouflage tower designs
shall be encouraged as meeting this criterion.
8. Proposed ingress and egress.
9. A nonrefundable fee of five hundred dollars ($500.00) to reimburse the County for
the costs of reviewing the application.
R. Removal of Abandoned Wireless Telecommunications Towers, Facilities and Antennas.
Any telecommunications tower, wireless communications facility or antenna that is not used
or operated for a continuous period of six (6) consecutive months shall be considered
abandoned, and the owner of such telecommunications tower, facility or antenna shall
remove the same at its cost within ninety (90) days of receipt of notice from the County
notifying the owner of such abandonment and in accordance with applicable permits. Failure
to remove an abandoned telecommunications tower, facility or antenna within the ninety
(90) days shall be grounds for the County to remove the tower, facility, or antenna at the
expense of the owner or for the County to allow another person to remove the facility at the
owner's expense. The owner of the communications facility shall be responsible for all
damage to property, facilities or utilities damaged as a result of such removal and shall
restore or pay for restoration as required in the County code. If there are two (2) or more
users of a single telecommunications tower or facility, the telecommunications tower or
facility shall not be considered abandoned until all users cease using the telecommunications
tower or facility for a continuous period of six (6) consecutive months. Upon determination
by a tower, facility or antenna owner that its tower, facility or antenna is to be abandoned,
the owner shall notify the County no later than ninety (90) days from such determination, or
no later than thirty (30) days following such abandonment, whichever is sooner. The County
may independently establish that a wireless communications facility has been abandoned.
In reaching such determination, the County may request documentation and/or affidavits
from the owner of the wireless communications facility regarding the active use of the
facility. If the owner fails to provide the requested documentation within thirty (30) days, a
rebuttable presumption shall exist that the owner has abandoned the wireless communica-
tions facility.
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S. Pre -Existing Telecommunications Towers. Any telecommunications tower lawfully
erected before the effective date of this ordinance shall be allowed to continue usages which
existed on this date. Routine maintenance of the tower and its support facilities is allowed
to continue. Any existing tower that does not meet the standards of this section shall not be
required to meet these standards unless and until the tower is proposed for modification or
replacement, to the extent not inconsistent with applicable law.
T. Inspections, Reports, Fees, and Monitoring.
1. Telecommunications tower owners shall submit a report to the Building Department
certifying structural and electrical integrity of the tower every five (5) years. The
report shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable fee of two hundred dollars ($200.00)
to reimburse the County for the cost of review. Notwithstanding this provision, an
owner of a telecommunications tower shall provide such report following recovery
from a declaration of a state of emergency by the County or by an appropriate state
official that included the area of the tower.
2. The County may conduct periodic inspections of telecommunications towers, at the
owner's expense, to ensure structural and electrical integrity and compliance with
the provision of this ordinance. The owner of the telecommunications tower may be
required by the County to have more frequent inspections should there be extraordinary
conditions or other reason to believe that the structural and electrical integrity of the
tower is jeopardized. There shall be a maximum of one (1) inspection per year unless
extraordinary conditions warrant. If, upon inspection, the County concludes that a
tower fails to comply with applicable laws, codes, regulations or permits or
constitutes a danger to persons or property, then upon notice being provided to the
owner of the tower, the owner shall have thirty (30) days to bring such tower into
compliance with such standards. Failure to bring such communications towers into
compliance within thirty (30) days shall constitute grounds for the removal of the
telecommunications tower or antenna at the owner's expense.
U. Amateur Radio Antennas And Support Apparatus Utilized By FCC Licensed Amateur
Radio Operator.
1. Applicability and Findings. Amateur radio antennas and their support apparatus
are subject solely to the regulations contained in this subsection 7.10.23(U) to the
extent not inconsistent with applicable federal or state law, and are not subject to
other provisions of Section 7.10.23, including but not limited to priority siting,
setback, stealth and separation requirements. The Board of County Commissioners
recognizes that the amateur radio service is a voluntary, noncommercial communica-
tion service that plays an important role in providing emergency communications.
Moreover, the amateur radio service provides a reservoir of trained operators,
technicians and electronic experts who can be called on in times of national or local
emergencies. Accordingly, the regulations adopted herein are designed to protect the
ability to operate amateur radio antennas while protecting important public safety
and aesthetic interests.
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2. Amateur radio antennas and their support apparatus shall be limited to maximum
height of eighty (80) feet except where a higher antenna is allowed pursuant to the
FCC's preemptive ruling PRB-1 (Federal Preemption of State and Local Regulations
Pertaining to Amateur Radio Facilities, Memorandum Opinion and Order, PRB-1,
101 FCC 2d 952 (1985) (PRB-1)) and provided that an administrative determination
is made by the County Administrator or designee, based on evidence submitted by
the applicant, that the proposed height is technically necessary to engage in amateur
radio communications.
3. A building permit from the County shall be required for the installation or
substantial modification to the installation of an amateur radio antenna and its
support apparatus. A building permit shall not be required for:
a. Adjustment, replacement or repair of the elements of an amateur radio antenna
array affixed to the antenna support apparatus;
b. Amateur radio antenna facilities erected temporarily for less than twenty-four
(24) hours for test purposes or for emergency communications; or
C. Collocation of additional amateur radio antenna on an existing amateur radio
antenna support apparatus installed pursuant to a permit or pre-existing
amateur radio antenna support apparatus installed prior to the effective date of
this ordinance.
4. The following requirements shall apply provided they do not prohibit the operation of
the amateur radio antennas:
a. Building Site Location. Amateur radio antennas and their support apparatus
shall be located behind the required primary/principal building within the rear
and interior side yard of the property. They are prohibited within the front and
side street yard areas. Amateur radio antennas and their support apparatus
shall not be installed in County public rights-of-way.
b. Setbacks. Amateur radio antennas and their support apparatus shall maintain
the same rear and side setbacks as required for the principal building of the
building site and shall be installed a minimum of eight (8) feet from any
overhead utility line(s) and power line(s). Where such amateur radio antennas
and their support apparatus are located on a building site which is fronting
upon two (2) or more streets and/or alleys, the amateur radio antennas and
support apparatus shall maintain the same primary/principal building setback
as required from each such street or alley.
C. As with the height limit, the County Administrator or designee may allow an
exception to the building site location and setback requirements if technically
necessary to engage in amateur radio communications.
5. Installation. The installation or substantial modification of an amateur radio
antennas and their support apparatus and foundation shall be in accordance with
the manufacturer's prescribed installation and safety procedures and shall meet all
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applicable county, state and federal requirements, as amended including but not
limited to the Florida Building Code, County Code, National Electric Code and FCC
regulations.
6. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, existing amateur radio antennas
and their support apparatus installed prior to the effective date of this Ordinance
shall be allowed to continue operations and to undergo routine maintenance without
having to comply with the provisions of this Ordinance. Existing amateur radio
antennas and their support structures installed prior to the effective date of this
ordinance shall not require a permit unless they are being replaced or substantially
modified.
7. The Board of County Commissioners recognizes that the amateur radio service is a
voluntary, noncommercial communication service that plays an important role in
providing emergency communications and hereby sets the fee for a building permit
at two hundred forty dollars ($240.00).
V. Penalties. Any person, firm or corporation who knowingly breaches any provision of
this Section 7.10.23, as it may be amended shall upon receipt of written notice from the
County be given a time schedule to cure the violation. Failure to commence to cure within
thirty (30) days and to complete a cure, to the County's satisfaction, within sixty (60) days,
or such longer time as the County may specify, shall result in revocation of any permit or
license and the County shall seek any remedy or damages to the full extent of the law. This
shall not preclude other penalties allowed by law.
(Ord. No. 09-003, Pt. A, 1-20-2009; Ord. No. 2018-006, Pt. A, 5-15-2018)
7.10.24. Community Architectural Standards.
A. General. The Interim Community Architectural Standards set forth in this section are
to apply to all areas of the Unincorporated County as minimum criteria for all new
construction or substantial expansion to existing buildings or structures in areas zoned
Commercial Neighborhood, Commercial Office, Commercial General, Institutional, Religious
Facilities, Planned Unit Development (Commercial Components Only), Planned Non-
residential Development and Planned Mixed Use Development.
These design standards are not intended to stifle imagination nor curtail variety but rather
they are for the purpose of promoting a more attractive and unified community appearance.
B. Site Plan Submission Standards.
Application and Review Process
Step 1: Submit Preliminary Conceptual Design Drawings and Site Plans to Planning
Department.
In addition to the items required for Site Plan Approval in the Land Development
Regulations, the following additional items must also be submitted for review and
comment.
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Submittal Requirements. Utilize the Design Standards Checklist provided within
this document to indicate the selected design elements.
Submit ten (10) sets of preliminary conceptual drawings which include a site plan,
architectural elevations of front and sides of proposed building(s), sign plan and
elevation, and exterior lighting locations and standards. Building elevations shall
indicate building and roof form, windows, doors, materials/colors (include samples in
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(c) It is free of rust or corrosion in the visible unpainted areas thereon;
(d) The structural parts are not broken or unduly misshapen; and
(e) The publications are kept dry and are not exposed to wind or precipitation.
H. Abandonment. In the event a newsrack remains empty for a period of seven (7)
continuous days, it shall be deemed abandoned.
I. Emergency Removal.
(1) Where the installation, use, or maintenance of a Newsrack, Base, or Mount poses an
immediate or imminent: (i) danger to pedestrians or vehicles, (ii) health or safety
hazard for pedestrians or vehicles, or (iii) otherwise unreasonable interference with
the safe use of any Public Rights -of -Way or other public property, the County
Administrator may have staff remove the newsrack, base, or mount immediatley.
Within five (5) working days of removal, the County Administrator shall notify the
distributor in writing, and provide the distributor with opportunity for an appeal
according to the provisions of this section. After removal, the distributor may reclaim
the newsrack upon repayment of the costs of removal, storage, and administrative
expenses. If the distributor fails to reclaim within forty-five (45) days after notice of
removal, the newsrack shall be deemed abandoned property and may be disposed of
by the County, in the same manner as other abandoned or unclaimed property.
(2) Under emergency weather conditions where a newsrack may become dangerous to
persons or property, the Administrator may require that any newsrack that is not
secured shall be removed by the distributor thereof. In such event, the County
Administrator may give notice, by telephone, to the distributor, and shall specify the
time provided for removal. Any newsrack that is not removed pursuant to notice
from the Administrator may be removed by the Administrator and stored. In such
event, the distributor may reclaim the newsrack upon paying the expenses incurred
by the County to remove and store it, as well as any related administrative expenses.
Should the distributor fail to reclaim any newsrack within forty-five (45) days after
written notice of removal from the Administrator, the newsrack shall be deemed
abandoned property and may be disposed of, by the County, in the same manner as
other abandoned or unclaimed property.
J. Appeals. A distributor may appeal a decision made by the County Administrator for
emergency removal by filing a written notice of appeal with the County Administrator
within seven (7) working days of the date of the rendition of the decision. The Board of
County Commissioners shall review the emergency removal at a public meeting within
fifteen (15) calendar days from the date of filing the appeal. The distributor shall be provided
reasonable notice of the time, date and place of the public meeting. Any appeal filed
pursuant to these regulations shall state succinctly the grounds upon which it is asserted
that the determination should be modified or reversed, and any other papers material to the
determination.
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Any aggrieved parties may appeal a final decision of the Board of County Commissioners to
the Circuit Court of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit. An appeal shall be filed within thirty
(30) days of the decision of the Board of County Commissioners being appealed.
K. Enforcement. Beginning one hundred fifty (150) days from the effective date of
Ordinance No. 05-001 and at any time thereafter, any newsrack in violation of any provision
of this article shall be subject to remedy and due process under the provisions of Section
11.13.03 et. seq. of this Code pertaining to the code enforcement board.
L. Rights Preserved. Nothing contained in this article shall prohibit the Commission from
enforcing its ordinances by any other means. This article does not restrict the right of any
person or the Commission to proceed with under either F.S. § 60.05 or § 832.05, against any
public nuisance.
7.10.27. Reserved.
Editor's note—Ord. No. 2018-006, Pt. A, adopted May 15, 2018, repealed § 7.10.27,
which pertained to communications.
7.10.28. Solar Energy.
The following provisions are intended to facilitate the commercial generation and
distribution of solar power and the use of on-site solar energy systems to meet the energy
demands of buildings and support facilities in the unincorporated County. All Solar
equipment and devices shall comply with Florida Statutes and shall be certificated by the
Florida Solar Energy Commission.
A. Solar Generation Station. In addition to other applicable sections of this Code, a solar
generation station shall be subject to the following provisions:
1. Solar generation stations shall require submittal of a Major Site Plan applica-
tion concurrent with a Conditional Use Permit, when required. The develop-
ment shall be subject to the following supplemental criteria:
a. Physical access to a solar generation station shall be restricted by fencing
or walls. Razor wire is prohibited. All fencing and wall details shall be
provided for review and approval as part of the required site plan.
b. The devices that capture energy and convert it to electricity shall not be
placed in wetlands, environmentally sensitive resources or habitats,
imperiled and critically imperiled habitats as defined by the Florida
Natural Areas Inventory, and buffers. Any environmental impacts from
such devices, or any component of a solar generation station, shall only be
allowed in compliance with the provisions of the County's Comprehensive
Plan and Land Development Code.
C. All devices that capture and convert energy to electricity shall be located
at least fifty (50) feet from any lot line under separate ownership, unless
otherwise approved by the Board of County Commissioners.
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d. The maximum lot coverage by structures, including solar ground or pole
mounted panels, for the zoning district may be waived by the Board of
County Commissioners. The approved maximum lot coverage shall be
shown on the site plan and specified in the resolution approving the
development.
e. All solar generation station sites must comply with the landscaping and
screening requirements of the Land Development Code. The perimeter
buffer landscaping requirements may be waived by the Board of County
Commissioners, if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commission that
the adjoining property owners have no objection to the landscaping waiver.
Interior vehicular use area landscaping requirements may be waived by
the Commission, to the extent necessary to ensure optimal solar access.
The Board of County Commissioners may require additional landscaping
to enhance compatibility with adjacent land uses.
f. On-site power lines shall be placed underground to the maximum extent
possible.
B. Solar Energy System. In addition to other applicable sections of this Code, a solar
energy system shall be subject to the following provisions:
1. All solar panels and devices are considered structures and subject to the
requirements for such, together with all other applicable building codes and
ordinances, unless otherwise provided for in this Code. Solar panels installed
on roofs are exempt from the building height requirements. Solar panels
installed on rooftops shall be located two (2) feet from the roof edge.
2. Non -roof installed solar energy devices integrated into the architecture of the
building, such as the walls of the building, shall be no greater than ten (10) feet
above the maximum height requirements of the zoning district.
3. Ground or pole mounted systems shall be limited to a height of ten (10) feet
above the base floor elevation of the primary structure.
4. Solar energy systems shall not be located in front or side corner yards of any
parcel, unless the following are met: 1) the conditions of the side and back yards
prohibit the installation of a system, and 2) the lot is one (1) acre or greater, and
3) adequate buffering along the adjacent roadway is provided, and 4) the
location is approved by the Director of Planning and Development Services.
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calendar year, fourteen (14) days per quarter (i.e. the owner of a condo -hotel
unit may not stay in his or her unit for more than fifty-six (56) days per calendar
year, or more than fourteen (14) days per quarter, and at all other times the unit
shall be available to the public for short term occupancy purposes only).
2. If more than fifty percent (50%) of the units, but no more than seventy-five
percent (75%) of the units in the hotel, motel or resort are condo -hotel units,
then the length of stay limit is thirty (30) consecutive days and no more than
ninety (90) total days per calendar year (a unit owner may not stay in his or her
unit longer than thirty (30) consecutive days, and no more than ninety (90) total
days in any calendar year. At all other times the unit shall be available to the
public for short term occupancy purposes only).
3. If no more than fifty percent (50%) of the units in the hotel, motel or resort are
condo -hotel units, then the length of stay limit is thirty (30) consecutive days
and no more than one hundred eighty (180) total days in any calendar year (a
unit owner may not stay in his or her unit longer than thirty (30) consecutive
days and no more than one hundred eighty (180) total days in any calendar year.
At all other times the unit shall be available to the public for short term
occupancy purposes only).
(Ord. No. 15-002, Pt. A, 4-7-2015)
7.10.33. Reserved.
Editor's note—Ord. No. 17-023, Pt. A, adopted December, repealed § 7.10.33, which
pertained to low -THC cannabis and medical cannabis dispensing facilities and derived from
Ord. No. 17-005, adopted May 16, 2017.
7.10.34. Commercial Composting Facilities.
A. Intent. The intent of this Section 7.10.34 is to establish the criteria for the location,
permitting, and operation of commercial composting facilities.
B. Applicability. The provisions of this Section 7.10.34 shall be applicable to each
commercial composting facility that will be located in an unincorporated area of St. Lucie
County. The construction and operation of a commercial composting facility in an unincorporated
area of St. Lucie County is prohibited, unless the construction and operation of the facility
has been approved in compliance with the requirements in this Section 7.10.34 or is exempt
from the requirements herein.
The supplemental standards in this Section 7.10.34 apply to commercial composting
facilities that use biosolids to produce compost. For the purposes of this Section 7.10.34,
Commercial Composting Facilities also include facilities that produce compost with: Manure;
the treated effluent or reclaimed water from a domestic wastewater treatment facility; solids
removed from pump stations and lift stations; screenings and grit removed from the
preliminary treatment components of domestic wastewater treatment facilities; ash gener-
ated during the incineration of biosolids; septage; sludge from a food establishment or a
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grease trap interceptor; waste removed from portable toilets; waste removed from holding
tanks associated with boats or marina facilities; garbage; or food waste. Facilities using one
(1) or more of these materials to produce compost are prohibited in the unincorporated areas
of St. Lucie County, unless the applicant for such facility demonstrates that the facility will
comply with the requirements in this Section 7.10.34 or the applicant demonstrates that the
facility is entitled to the County's approval pursuant to another section of the St. Lucie
County Land Development Code.
Notwithstanding anything else contained herein, the requirements in this Section 7.10.34
do not apply to:
1. Normal farming operations, which are defined as follows:
(a) Composting or anaerobic digestion of yard trash, manure, or vegetative wastes
generated on the farm, as part of agronomic, horticultural, or silvicultural
operations, for use on the farm, as part of agronomic, horticultural, or
silvicultural operations;
(b) Composting or anaerobic digestion of yard trash, manure, or vegetative wastes
generated off the farm, for use on the farm, as part of agronomic, horticultural,
or silvicultural operations; or
(c) A bona fide farm operation, as defined in F.S. § 823.14(3)(b), on land classified
as agricultural land pursuant to F.S. § 193.461, provided such farm operation
does not involve the transportation or land application of domestic wastewater
residuals (biosolids) or other forms of sewage sludge.
2. Backyard composting, including composting that is conducted by an individual or
family solely for their own farming or gardening activities on their own property.
3. A composting facility that only uses yard trash and/or untreated wood to produce
compost.
4. A commercial composting facility that has received all of the necessary permits,
licenses, and other approvals needed to construct and operate the facility lawfully, if
such permits, licenses, and other permits were issued before this Section 7.10.34 took
effect.
C. Zoning Districts where Commercial Composting Facilities are Allowed. Commercial
Composting Facilities may be approved as a Conditional Use in an Agriculture -5 (AG -5)
zoning district, subject to the requirements in this Section 7.10.34 and the other require-
ments applicable to the AG -5 zoning district. Commercial composting facilities are
prohibited in other zoning districts.
D. Supplemental Standards for Controlling Water Quality Impacts from Commercial
Composting Facilities.
1. In F.S. § 373.4595(1)(d), the Florida Legislature "finds that it is imperative for the
state, local governments, and agricultural and environmental communities to
commit to restoring and protecting the surface water resources of the Lake
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Okeechobee watershed, the Caloosahatchee River watershed, and the St. Lucie River
watershed, and that a watershed -based approach to address these issues must be
developed and implemented immediately." The Legislature also found that phosphorus
and "other pollutants are contributing to water quality problems in the Lake
Okeechobee watershed, ... and the St. Lucie River watershed." F.S. § 373.4595(1)(g).
In F.S. § 373.4595(4)(d), the Legislature required the adoption of a basin manage-
ment action plan for the St. Lucie River Watershed. As part of the action plan, the
Legislature prohibited the Florida Department of Environmental Protection from
authorizing "the disposal of domestic wastewater biosolids within the St. Lucie River
watershed unless the applicant can affirmatively demonstrate that the nutrients in
the biosolids will not add to nutrient loadings in the watershed." F.S. § 373.4595(4)(d)5.
A similar prohibition applies to the disposal of biosolids in the Lake Okeechobee
Watershed. F.S. § 373.4595(3)(b)16.
2. Consistent with the Legislature's findings and mandates, the County wants to
ensure that the operation of commercial composting facilities in the unincorporated
areas of the County will not cause or contribute to water quality problems in the St.
Lucie River Watershed or the Lake Okeechobee Watershed. Accordingly, an applicant
seeking a conditional use approval for a commercial composting facility in the
unincorporated areas of the County must demonstrate that the proposed activities at
the Commercial Composting Facility will not cause a net increase in the nutrient
loadings or Pathogens in any surface water that drains into the St. Lucie River
Watershed or the Lake Okeechobee Watershed.
3. An applicant will be presumed to comply with the requirement in Section 7.10.34(D)(2),
above, if the applicant demonstrates that the applicant's proposed commercial
composting facility is designed to collect and appropriately treat all of the leachate
that will be generated at the proposed commercial composting facility.
4. For the purposes of this Section 7.10.34, leachate includes: (a) all of the stormwater
that comes into contact with the biosolids, yard trash, solid waste, and other organic
material that the applicant will use to create compost; (b) all of the liquid that
emanates from the biosolids, yard trash, solid waste, and other organic material that
the applicant will use to create compost; (c) all of the stormwater that comes into
contact with, and all of the liquid that emanates from, the materials used to create
compost after the materials have been combined for processing; and (d) all of the
stormwater that comes into contact with, and all of the liquid that emanates from,
partially treated compost (e.g., compost that is curing) and fully treated compost (i.e.,
compost that complies with the specifications for the commercial composting
facility's finished product).
5. To comply with the requirement in Section 7.10.34(D)(2), above: (a) all composting
activities must be conducted inside an enclosed building; (b) all raw materials used
to create compost (e.g., biosolids, yard trash, etc.), all partially treated compost, and
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all fully treated compost must be stored inside an enclosed building; and (c) the
enclosed building must be designed, constructed, and maintained to comply with the
requirements in Section 7.10.34(D)(6), below.
6. For the purposes of complying with the water quality requirements in Section
7.10.34(D)(2), above, an enclosed building means a building or structure that
satisfies all of the following criteria:
(a) The building must have a roof and four (4) walls, which fully enclose the interior
of the building from the floor to the ceiling, except as otherwise provided herein.
(b) The building must have an impervious floor made of concrete, asphalt, or
equivalent material that will prevent leachate from leaking into the soils and
groundwater beneath the building. The impervious floor must have a perme-
ability rate for leachate that is 1 x 10-7 cm/sec or less.
(c) The floor of the building must be sloped toward drains or sumps, which are sized
and located to collect and remove any leachate that is spilled, leaked, or
discharged on the floor.
(d) Drains, elevated speed bumps, or similar features must be installed at all
doorways used to provide access into the building for vehicular traffic. These
features must be designed and maintained to ensure that Leachate does not
flow out of the building, via the doorways for vehicular traffic, and into the
outside environment.
(e) All of the building's doors, windows, and other similar openings to the outdoors
must be designed and operated to:
(1) Minimize the potential for rainwater to enter the building; and
(2) Prevent the release of leachate from the building to any outdoor area.
7. An applicant must demonstrate that it will appropriately treat the leachate collected
inside the proposed commercial composting facility. More specifically, the applicant
must demonstrate that the applicant will pump or transport the leachate to a
domestic or industrial wastewater treatment facility that has received or will receive
all of the necessary permits and approvals from the Florida Department of
Environmental Protection to receive and treat the leachate from the commercial
composting facility. The applicant also must provide the County with a letter from
the owner or operator of the wastewater treatment facility, confirming that the
wastewater treatment facility is willing and able to accept and treat the leachate
from the commercial composting facility.
8. An applicant must demonstrate that the stormwater management system for the
proposed commercial composting facility will comply with the following require-
ments:
(a) If the applicant's stormwater management system will discharge to a water -
body that drains into the St. Lucie River Watershed or the Lake Okeechobee
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Watershed, the stormwater system must be designed to collect, treat, and retain
the runoff generated by a one hundred (100) year, seventy-two (72) hour design
storm, without discharging.
(b) All retention and detention basins in the applicant's stormwater management
system must be setback one hundred (100) feet from any waterbody that drains
into the St. Lucie River Watershed or the Lake Okeechobee Watershed.
(c) If the applicant's stormwater management system will not discharge into a
waterbody that drains into the St. Lucie River Watershed or the Lake
Okeechobee Watershed, the stormwater management system must comply with
all of the applicable standards established by the Florida Department of
Environmental Protection and the South Florida Water Management District
for such systems.
9. The applicant must provide a vegetated buffer (setback) between certain areas of the
applicant's site and any waterbody that drains to the St. Lucie River Watershed or
the Lake Okeechobee Watershed. The setback shall be two hundred (200) feet for all
areas on the site where biosolids are delivered, stored, or used to produce compost,
including areas where the partially treated compost is cured. The setback shall be
one hundred (100) feet for all areas where Yard Trash or other organic materials
(except biosolids) are delivered, stored, or used to produce compost. The setback shall
be one hundred (100) feet for all areas where the fully treated compost is stored.
10. The applicant must demonstrate that the commercial composting facility will be
built at an elevation above the one hundred (100) year floodplain. This requirement
applies to all buildings and areas used for composting, including but not limited to
buildings and areas used for receiving, storing, or processing biosolids, yard trash,
solid waste, or other organic materials used to produce compost, as well as areas used
to store partially or fully treated compost.
E. Supplemental Standards for Controlling Objectionable Odors from Commercial Com-
posting Facilities.
1. An applicant must demonstrate that its commercial composting facility will not
cause objectionable odors at or beyond the boundary (property line) of the applicant's
site.
2. An applicant will be presumed to comply with the requirement in Section 7.10.34(E)(1),
above, if the applicant demonstrates that: (a) all composting operations will be
conducted inside an enclosed building; (b) all biosolids, yard trash, solid waste, and
other organic materials used to produce compost will be received, stored, and used
inside an enclosed building; (c) all partially and fully treated compost will be stored
inside an enclosed building; and (d), in each instance, the enclosed building will be
designed, constructed, and operated to collect and minimize the objectionable odors
emitted from the commercial composting facility.
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3. To comply with the odor control requirements in Section 7.10.34(E)(1), above, an
applicant must comply with the following criteria for an enclosed building, in
addition to the criteria set forth in Section 7.10.34(D)(6), above:
(a) The applicant must demonstrate that the building will be designed, constructed,
and operated to collect any objectionable odors that are generated inside the
building. At a minimum, the design features and operating systems proposed
by the applicant must be consistent with the best management practices used to
collect objectionable odors in similar enclosed buildings. For example, the
building should be equipped with a ventilation system designed to produce a
negative air pressure inside the building. The negative air pressure should be
maintained throughout the building at levels sufficient to prevent objectionable
odors from leaving the inside of the building during normal operations.
(b) The applicant must demonstrate that any objectionable odors generated in the
building will be minimized before they are released to the outdoor environment.
At a minimum, the design features and operating systems proposed by the
applicant must be consistent with the best management practices used to
neutralize or destroy objectionable odors from similar enclosed buildings.
(1) The applicant should use an odor neutralization system to reduce objection-
able odors inside the building. For example, the applicant should use
misting systems that spray odor neutralizing compounds inside the
building, and/or systems that generate and release ozone inside the
building.
(2) The objectionable odors inside the building should be treated with an
activated carbon filter system or other air pollution control system that is
designed and operated to minimize or eliminate the objectionable odors
before the odors are discharged from the building to the atmosphere.
(c) If the building has any doors or entranceways that are used to provide ingress
and egress for vehicles, the doors must be equipped with high speed roll -up
covers or equivalent mechanisms to minimize the potential for objectionable
odors to leave the building.
(d) The applicant must provide the County with an operations plan demonstrating
that the doors used to provide vehicular access into the building, and other
large openings into the building (e.g., openings for ventilation fans), will be
closed to the greatest extent practicable.
(1) All doors used to provide vehicular access into the building must be closed
at all times, except when a vehicle is approaching the door to enter or exit
the building.
(2) All doors for vehicles must be closed at night, on weekends, and at other
times that are outside of the commercial composting facility's normal
business hours.
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(3) All of the other large openings into the building, such as the openings for
ventilation fans (if any), shall be closed when the vehicle doors are closed,
unless such openings need to remain open at other times pursuant to the
operating plan for controlling objectionable odors (e.g., if the openings
need to remain open so that ventilation fans can be used to provide
negative air pressure inside the building).
4. The applicant must provide buffers (setbacks) from its commercial composting
facility to reduce the potential for objectionable odors and airborne pathogens to
reach off-site areas.
(a) A setback of three hundred (300) feet must be provided between the boundary
(property line) of the applicant's site and any area on the site where the
applicant receives, stores, or uses biosolids, yard trash, other organic materials
used to produce compost, or partially or fully treated compost.
(b) A setback of one thousand three hundred twenty (1,320) feet must be provided
between any on-site area where biosolids will be delivered, stored, or used for
composting and the nearest building that is not owned by the applicant. This
setback does not apply to buildings that are located on the applicant's site. This
setback also does not apply to buildings constructed after the County issues a
conditional use approval for the construction of the commercial composting
facility. Further, this setback may be reduced if a smaller setback has been
accepted in writing by the person that owns the building.
(c) A setback of one thousand three hundred twenty (1,320) feet must be provided
between the boundary (property line) of the applicant's site and the boundary of
the urban service area, as shown in the Future Land Use Element (Map FLU
12) of the St. Lucie County Comprehensive Plan.
F. Other Supplemental Standards for Commercial Composting Facilities.
1. The applicant must prepare an operating plan for the proposed commercial
composting facility. The operating plan must demonstrate that the operation of the
proposed commercial composting facility will not adversely affect off-site residents,
businesses, or land uses as a result of objectionable odors, pathogens, dust,
stormwater runoff, insects, vermin, other vectors, truck traffic, noise, or other
adverse impacts caused by the operation of the commercial composting facility. The
operating plan must be submitted to and approved by the County before the
conditional use will be approved.
2. The operating plan must include a contingency plan, which describes the fire control
and emergency operating measures that will be used at the commercial composting
facility. The contingency plan must describe the measures that will be followed
during hurricanes, tropical storms, and other severe weather conditions to ensure
that biosolids, yard trash, solid waste, other organic materials used to produce
compost, partially and fully treated compost, and leachate will not be blown,
discharged, or otherwise released into the environment as a result of the severe
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weather conditions. The contingency plan also must describe the measures that will
be used to prevent fires from occurring on the site, as well as the measure that will
be used to extinguish fires.
3. Fire lanes shall be established and maintained on the site to ensure access can be
provided in the event of a fire or other emergency. The fire lanes shall be at least
fifteen (15) feet wide. The fire lanes shall be located between each windrow of
partially or fully treated compost, and between any stockpiles of yard trash, other
materials used to create compost, and compost. None of these materials may be more
than fifty (50) feet from a fire lane or other location where access is provided for
motorized firefighting equipment.
4. The maximum height of any pile of yard trash, or partially or fully treated compost,
shall be fifteen (15) feet.
5. Yard trash and wood waste must be managed on a "first -in, first -out" basis. Such
materials shall be used to produce compost or removed from the site within sixty (60)
days after the material is delivered to the site. All of the fully treated compost shall
be removed from the site within one hundred twenty (120) days after the composting
process is completed. All of the raw materials used to produce compost (e.g.,
biosolids; yard trash; etc.), all of the partially treated compost, and all of the fully
treated compost shall be removed from the site within sixty (60) days after the
applicant ceases operation of the commercial composting facility.
6. If the applicant's site is located within one thousand (1,000) feet of any zoning
district that allows one (1) or more residential dwelling units to be built on lots that
are less than five (5) acres in size, the following criteria shall apply:
(a) The business hours of the commercial composting facility shall be limited to
Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
(b) The commercial composting facility shall not accept deliveries of biosolids, yard
trash, or similar materials in trucks, and shall not transport compost from the
site in trucks, except during the days and hours of operation specified in Section
7.10.34(F)(6)(a), above.
(c) Chipping and grinding of yard trash, land clearing debris, wood waste, or other
similar materials shall not be conducted on the applicant's site, except during
the days and hours of operation specified in Section 7.10.34(F)(6)(a), above.
7. The applicant must demonstrate that it has the ability to obtain and maintain a
performance bond, irrevocable letter of credit, or other form of financial surety
(collectively, "performance bond") for the benefit of the County. Before the applicant
commences construction of the commercial composting facility, the applicant must
provide a performance bond to the County to guarantee the applicant's performance
in compliance with the County's Land Development Code and other applicable
requirements. The form of the performance bond shall be subject to the County's
prior approval. The amount of the performance bond must be large enough to ensure
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that the County will have sufficient funds available, if necessary, to remove all of the
biosolids, yard trash, compost, leachate, and similar materials from the applicant's
site if the applicant fails to perform in compliance with the County's Land
Development Code and other applicable requirements. The applicant shall have an
independent professional engineer prepare an estimate of the cost of having a third
party remove the biosolids and other materials from the applicant's site at a time
when the commercial composting facility is operating at its maximum design
capacity. The County shall require the performance bond to be in the amount
indicated in the following table, unless the applicant demonstrates to the County's
satisfaction that a lesser amount is appropriate, based on the specific facts and
circumstances of the applicant's project:
Facility Capacity
Performance Bond Amount
<50 tons per day compost produced
$200,000.00 bond
50-100 tons per day compost produced
$400,000.00 bond
100-250 tons per day compost produced
$1,000,000.00 bond
250-500 tons per day compost produced
$2,000,000.00 bond
>500 tons per day compost produced
$4,000,000.00 minimum
The County may increase or decrease the amount of the performance bond at the
time of conditional use approval, based on the prevailing hauling, disposal, and
treatment costs.
8. The applicant must demonstrate that biosolids, yard trash, solid waste, and other
materials will not be tracked from the applicant's site onto local roads as a result of
truck traffic. The applicant must install a wheel wash system, or a "soil tracking
prevention device" designed in compliance with the requirements of the Florida
Department of Transportation, or a similar system that will remove biosolids, yard
trash, solid waste, and other materials from the tires and undercarriage of the trucks
leaving the site of the commercial composting facility.
9. The supplemental standards in this Section 7.10.34 establish the minimum require-
ments applicable to the applicant's proposed commercial composting facility. In
addition to the requirements in this Section 7.10.34, an applicant must demonstrate
that the proposed commercial composting facility will be located, designed, built, and
operated in compliance with all of the other applicable County requirements,
including but not limited to the requirements for landscaping, lighting, fire
protection, and signage. Further, the County may impose additional requirements on
the applicant's proposed facility, based on the specific features of the applicant's
proposed site, facility, and operating plan. Such requirements may address the
facility's adverse impacts on public health, safety, and welfare, including but not
limited to the adverse impacts on public safety and highway maintenance caused by
the truck traffic generated by the applicant's proposed facility.
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7.10.34 ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
10. The applicant's compliance with the requirements in this Section 7.10.34 does not
eliminate the applicant's obligation to comply with other requirements applicable to
the applicant's project pursuant to other local, state, or federal laws. The applicant
will be required to demonstrate that all necessary permits and approvals for the
construction of the proposed commercial composting facility have been received by
the applicant, before the applicant begins to construct the facility. Among other
things, the applicant will need to demonstrate that the applicant has obtained all of
the necessary permits and approvals required by the Fire Marshall, the local or state
Department of Transportation, the local or state Department of Health, the Florida
Department of Environmental Protection, and the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency.
11. The County's representatives shall have the right to enter the applicant's site, after
presenting their credentials or other form of identification, to determine whether the
construction and operation of the commercial composting facility complies with the
County's requirements and the approved operating plan. The County's representa-
tives shall have the right to collect and analyze samples of the environmental media
(e.g., soil, air, water) on or adjacent to the applicant's site to determine whether the
commercial composting facility is operating in compliance with the County's
standards.
12. The requirements in this Section 7.10.34 shall be enforced by using the County's code
enforcement mechanisms, in addition to any other enforcement mechanisms or
remedies authorized by local or state law.
13. After providing notice to the applicant and an opportunity to be heard, the County
may revoke its conditional use approval for the commercial composting facility if the
county determines that the facility has not been built or is not being operated in
compliance with (a) the information provided to the County in support of the
applicant's request for a conditional use, (b) a requirement contained in this Section
7.10.34, (c) a requirement contained in the County's conditional approval for the
applicant's facility, or (d) one of the other County requirements applicable to the
commercial composting facility. The County also may revoke its conditional use
approval or take other appropriate enforcement action if the applicant operates the
commercial composting facility after one of the necessary local, state, or federal
permits for the facility has been revoked.
14. The applicant shall provide the County with a copy of each report the applicant
submits to the FDEP or SFWMD concerning the commercial composting facility's
compliance with the applicable FDEP or SFWMD standards. Each such report shall
be delivered to the County within seven (7) days after the report is delivered to the
FDEP or SFWMD.
15. The County shall have the right to retain engineers, consultants, and other
independent technical experts, as the County deems necessary, to assist the County
with its review of an application for a commercial composting facility or an
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DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT STANDARDS 7.10.34
application for a waiver. In such cases, the County may charge a special fee for its
review of the application. The amount of the special fee shall be equal to the
estimated cost the County will incur for using the experts' services. The special fee
must be paid to the County before the County conducts its review of the application.
16. If a commercial composting facility fails to comply with the County's requirements in
this ordinance, the County may require the facility to reimburse the County for any
monitoring conducted by the County to evaluate the environmental conditions on the
facility's site.
G. Waivers of Supplemental Standards.
1. The County supports and encourages composting, when the composting is performed
properly and does not pose a threat to the environment or the public welfare. The
County recognizes that the state-of-the-art is evolving relatively rapidly with regard
to composting, odor controls, and related matters. Accordingly, the County will grant
a waiver of a requirement in these Supplemental Standards in cases where the
applicant demonstrates to the County's reasonable satisfaction that granting the
waiver will not pose a threat to the environment or public welfare.
2. More specifically, a waiver shall be granted from a requirement in this Section
7.10.34 when a person subject to the requirement demonstrates that: (a) the
underlying purpose of the requirement has been or will be achieved by other means
employed by the applicant, and (b) the application of the requirement would create a
substantial hardship for the applicant. k
3. For the purposes of Section 7.10.34(G)(2), "the underlying purpose of the require-
ment" means the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare in the manner
provided by the specific requirement from which the applicant is seeking relief. For
example, a request for a waiver from a requirement in Section 7.10.34(D) must
demonstrate that "the proposed activities at the commercial composting facility will
not cause a net increase in the nutrient loadings or pathogens in any surface water
that drains into the St. Lucie River Watershed or the Lake Okeechobee Watershed,"
even if the applicant does not comply with the specific requirement in Section
7.10.34(D) from which the applicant seeks relief. A request for a waiver from a
requirement in Section 7.10.34(E) must demonstrate that the "commercial compost-
ing facility will not cause objectionable odors at or beyond the boundary (property
line) of the applicant's site," even if the applicant does not comply with the specific
requirement in Section 7.10.34(E) from which the applicant seeks relief. A similar
demonstration would be required if an applicant requested a waiver from any of the
other Supplemental Standards in Section 7.10.34(F), including but not limited to the
Supplemental Standards in Section 7.10.34(F) that are designed to address fires,
noise, nuisances, and other adverse impacts caused by a commercial composting
facility. In all such cases, the applicant must demonstrate that the public health,
safety, and welfare will be protected, even if the County grants a waiver from the
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specific requirement from which the applicant is seeking relief. Waivers will not be
granted solely because the applicant will experience a hardship as a result of the
requirement.
4. For the purposes of Section 7.10.34(G)(2), "substantial hardship" means a demonstrated
economic, technological, legal, or other type of hardship to the person requesting the
waiver, in a case where the hardship to the individual significantly outweighs the
public benefit of enforcing the requirement.
5. The general procedures for requesting and obtaining a waiver shall be the same as
the general procedures in Sections 10.01.04 and 10.01.05 of the St. Lucie County
Land Development Code for requesting and obtaining a variance, except that: (a) the
application and supporting information submitted by the applicant shall address the
issues set forth in Sections 7.10.34(G)(2) and 7.10.34(G)(3), above; (b) the standards
for granting or denying a waiver shall be limited to the standards set forth in Section
7.10.34(G)(2) and 7.10.34(G)(3), above; and (c) the Board of County Commissioners
shall have the exclusive authority to review and approve an application for a waiver.
The Board of Adjustment will not review or approve an application for a waiver.
H. Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies.
1. An applicant must exhaust the administrative remedies provided in Section
7.10.34(G), above, before the applicant seeks judicial review of any County decision
denying, in whole or in part, an application for a conditional use approval, which is
based on the County's determination that the application did not comply with one (1)
or more of the requirements in Section 7.10.34 of the St. Lucie County Land
Development Code.
2. An applicant or property owner claiming that Section 7.10.34, as applied, constitutes
or would constitute a temporary or permanent taking of private property or an
abrogation of vested rights shall not pursue such claim in court unless he or she has
first exhausted the administrative remedies provided in Section 7.10.34.
I. Interpretation of the Definitions and Terms Used in These Supplemental Standards.
1. The definitions in Section 2.00.00 of St. Lucie County's Land Development Code
shall be used when construing and applying this Section 7.10.34. In addition, the
definitions adopted by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in
Sections 62-640.200, 62-701.200, and 62-709.201, Florida Administrative Code, may
be used to supplement the definitions adopted by the County in Section 2.00.00. If
any definition adopted by the County conflicts with a definition adopted by the
Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the definition adopted by the
County shall prevail when construing and applying the requirements in the Land
Development Code and this Section 7.10.34. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a
court of competent jurisdiction determines that a definition adopted by the County in
Section 2.00.00 is inconsistent with a definition in F.S. § 403.703, the County's
definition shall be modified as necessary to eliminate the inconsistency.
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DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT STANDARDS 7.10.34
2. When used in this Section 7.10.34, the words "include" and "including" shall not be
construed to be terms of limitation. References to included matters or items will be
regarded as illustrative and will not be interpreted as a limitation on, or an exclusive
listing of, the matters or items referred to.
(Ord. No. 17-015, § 4, 7-5-2017)
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Supp. No. 16 7:251 Adopted May 19, 2009
CODE COMPARATIVE TABLE
Ordinance
Adoption
Section
Number
Date
Section
this Code
Pt. B
3.01.02
Pt. C
6.00.05.D.
Pt. D
7.05.03.I.
Pt. E
7.05.04.A.
Pt. F
7.06.01
Pt. G
7.09.04.E., O.
Pt. H
7.10.16.Q.1.e.
Pt. I
11.00.03.A.
11.02.02,
11.02.03
11.02.04.C.
Pt. J
11.02.09.A.5
Pt. K
11.05.00
12-004
2- 7-2012
A
3.01.03.Q.7.d.
12-008
3-20-2012
Pt. A
11.05.02
Pt. B
12.06.01
12-009
4-17-2012
Pt. A
2.00.00
3.01.01
12-010
2-14-2012
Pt. A
2.00.00
6.05.01-6.05.07
10.01.25
12.06.01
12-013
12- 4-2012
Pt. A
3.01.03
Pt. B
7.10.11
Added
7.10.31
Pt. C
D1td
8.02.02.1-1
12-014
10- 2-2012
Pt. A
11.09.02
13-007
3- 5-2013
A
3.01.03.S.2.d
13-016
4- 2-2013
Pt. A
Added
7.10.30
13-037
8- 6-2013
Pt. A
7.01.03
13-038
9- 3-2013
Pt. A
2.00.00, 6.02.02,
10.01.30
2013-19
5-21-2013
Pt. A
4.12.05
2013-39
12-17-2013
A
9.01.01, 9.01.02,
9.02.01.D.5,
9.03.00, 9.04.01,
9.05.00.13
2013-43
12-17-2013
A
11.02.06
2013-44
12-17-2013
A
Rp1d
7.06.01-7.06.04
Added
7.06.01-7.06.03
14-019
9-16-2014
Pt. A
6.02.02, 10.01.30
14-021
9-16-2014
A
7.04.04, 7.07.06,
7.07.07,
11.02.09(A),
11.02.10(A),
11.05.07(B)
14-026
1- 6-2015
A
4.12.01-4.12.03
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16
CCT:3
Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Ordinance
Adoption
Section
Number
Date
Section
this Code
Rpld
4.12.04-4.12.09
4.12.10, 4.12.11
15-002
4- 7-2015
Pt. A
2.00.00
Added
3.01.03.II
7.02.02.B,
7.03.02,
7.04.01 (Table
7-10),
7.05.05
Added
7.10.32
9.01.01.E,
9.01.02
11.09.02 (Table
11-1)
15-010
9- 1-2015
Pt. A
10.03.00,
10.03.O1.0
16-001
1- 5-2016
Pt. A
7.10.11
16-004
3- 1-2016
Pt. A
7.09.05
16-009
6- 7-2016
Pt. A
2.00, 7.10.24
9.00.00-9.01.02,
9.02.01, 9.02.02,
9.03.00
16-012
7-26-2016
Pt. A
7.10.03.A
2016-19
12-20-2016
Pt. A
4.02.05
Added
4.02.06
2016-23
11- 1-2016
Pt. A
7.02.03.13,
7.04.01, Table
7-10
2017-004
4-18-2017
Pt. A
2.00.00
Pt. B
Added
7.10.08
17-005
5-16-2017
Pt. A
2.00.00,
3.01.03.5
Added
7.10.33
17-015
7- 5-2017
2
2.00.00
3
3.01.03.0
4
Added
7.10.34
17-023
12-19-2017
Pt. A
3.01.03
Rpld
7.10.33
18-001
1-23-2018
Pt. A
2.00.00
Rpld
6.05.00-6.05.07
Added
6.05.00-6.05.09
2018-006
5-15-2018
Pt. A
2.00.00, 7.10.23
Rpld
7.10.27
2018-09
6- 5-2018
Pt. A
4.02.01-4.02.06
Added
4.02.07
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 CCTA Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Expiration of Final Site Plan Approval
Abandonment of Construction ....................... 11.02.06.0
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Removal of Wireless Telecommunications Towers
and Antennas ........................................ 7.10.23.11
ABATEMENT
Section
A
ABANDONMENT
Development Permits
Airport Zone Permits
Nonconforming Uses Abandoned or Destroyed.......
11.05.08.F
Newsracks.....................................................
7.10.26.H
Nonconformities
11.05.06
Uses, Nonconforming
Termination
7.09.05
Abandonment or Discontinuance ....................
10.00.02.F.1
Right-of-way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
11.10.00 et seq.
See: RIGHT-OF-WAY ABANDONMENT AND PLAT
VACATION PROCEDURES
Site Plans
6.04.02.L.5
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Expiration of Final Site Plan Approval
Abandonment of Construction ....................... 11.02.06.0
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Removal of Wireless Telecommunications Towers
and Antennas ........................................ 7.10.23.11
ABATEMENT
Administration and Enforcement
Authorization by a Development Permit Required Prior
to Undertaking Any Development Activity
Exceptions to Requirement of a Final Development
Order.................................................
11.01.03
Development Permits
Vegetation Removal Permits ..............................
11.05.06
Landscaping
Removal of Exotic Vegetation .............................
7.09.05
Newsracks
Emergency Removal ........................................
7.10.26.I
Sea Turtle Protection
Standards for New Beach Access Points
Sign Removal .............................................
6.04.02.L.5
Signs and Billboards
Nonconforming Signs
Continuation or Removal ...............................
9.05.00.13
Removal of Non -Conforming Flags, Banners, and
Pennants.............................................
9.05.00.F
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Removal of Wireless Telecommunications Towers
and Antennas ........................................
7.10.23.R
Utilities
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit
Enforcement ..............................................
7.08.04.0
On -Site Sewage Disposal System, Requirement for.
7.08.04.13
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Supp. No. 16 LDCi:1 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
ABATEMENT (Cont'd.)
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit................................................ 6.00.05
Notice of Vegetation Removal Required ............... 6.00.03
ACCESS
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
Block 7 Restrictions ......................................
7.10.18.0
Coastal Area Protection
Beach and Dune Protection
Dune Preservation Zone Restriction ...................
6.02.01.E.1
Shoreline Access Requirements ...........................
6.02.0l.H
Coastal Construction Code
Requirements, Coastal Construction .....................
13.00.02.1)
Conditional Uses
Conditions on Conditional Use Permits
Access Improvements ....................................
11.07.04.13
Hearings
Hearing Procedures
Examination and Copying of Application and Other
Documents ...........................................
11.00.04.13
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Landscaped Buffer Areas between Non -Residential
or Residential Structure(s) Housing Three (3) or
More Dwelling Units and Single -Family or Two -
Family Residential Uses ...........................
7.09.04.E
Visibility for Landscaping Adjacent to the Public
Rights -of -Way and Points of Access ...............
7.09.04.D
Newsracks
Purpose and Criteria .......................................
7.10.26.A
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Standards and Requirements
Traffic and Pedestrian Circulation
Roadway Design Criteria .............................
7.03.03.E.2
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading
On Street Parking .....................................
7.02.03.E.3
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading
On Street Parking .....................................
7.01.03.F.3
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
Access to Water .............................................
11.10.03
Application Procedures, Petition
Access to Affected Property .............................
11.10.05.1)
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:2 Adopted
May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
ACCESSORY BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND USES
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District ...............................
Section
ACCESS (Cont'd.)
3.01.03.13.8
River Park—Community Overlay Zone
3.01.03.C.8
Performance Standards
Access Management .....................................
4.02.04.0
Pedestrian Access ........................................
4.02.04.D
Sea Turtle Protection .........................................
6.04.02 et seq.
See: SEA TURTLE PROTECTION
8.00.01
Site Plans
3.01.03.5.8
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
3.01.03.Q.8
Conditions on Site Plan Approval
3.01.03.R.8
Major Site Plan Approvals
3.01.03.HH.8
Access Improvements ...............................
11.02.08.B.2
Minor Site Plan Approvals
Access Improvements ...............................
11.02.08.A.2
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
7.04.01.E
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report..
7.10.23.F
Transportation Systems ......................................
7.05.05 et seq.
See: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
8.00.04
Variances.......................................................
10.01.14 et seq.
See: VARIANCES
8.00.04.A
Vegetation
3.01.03.X.8
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
3.01.03.U.8
Exemptions...............................................
6.00.04
ACCESSORY BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND USES
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District ...............................
3.01.03.A.8
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District ...........................
3.01.03.13.8
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District ...............................
3.01.03.C.8
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
Authorized Uses ..........................................
7.10.18.B
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District ................
3.01.03.E.7
Authorization..................................................
8.00.01
CG Commercial, General District ...........................
3.01.03.5.8
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District ....................
3.01.03.Q.8
CO Commercial, Office District .............................
3.01.03.R.8
CPUB Conservation - Public District .......................
3.01.03.HH.8
CR Commercial Resort District .............................
3.01.03.II.8
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements
Requirements
Non -Residential Buildings on Farms ...............
7.04.01.E
Mobile Homes as Accessory Uses .........................
7.10.05
Dimension and Location Regulations .......................
8.00.02
Fences, Walls, and Hedges ...................................
8.00.04
In any residential zoning district, a fence, wall or
landscape berm may be located in any required ..
8.00.04.A
I Institutional District ........................................
3.01.03.X.8
IH Industrial, Heavy District ...............................
3.01.03.U.8
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:3 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
ACCESSORY BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND USES
(Cont'd.)
IL Industrial, Light District .................................
3.01.03.18
IX Industrial, Extraction District ...........................
3.01.03.V.8
Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
Specific Accessory Uses ....................................
7.10.17.K
Nonconformities
Lots of Record, Nonconforming ...........................
10.00.04
Particular Permitted Accessory Structures and Uses in
Residential, Agricultural, and Planned Unit Develop-
ment Districts ............................................
8.00.03
Public Facilities
Development Not Subject to The Requirements of
Chapter V, Adequate Public Facilities
Exemptions...............................................
5.03.01
R/C Residential/Conservation District .....................
3.01.03.D.8
RE -1 Residential, Estate - 1 District .......................
3.01.03.F.7
RE -2 Residential, Estate - 2 District .......................
3.01.03.G.7
Recreational Vehicle Parks
Specific Accessory Uses ....................................
7.10.16.N
RF Religious Facilities District ..............................
3.01.03.Y.8
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Use Limitations, Research and Education Park Overlay
Zone.....................................................
4.03.05.0
RM -5 Residential, Multiple -Family - 5 District ...........
3.01.03.L.8
RM -7 Residential, Multiple -Family - 7 District ...........
3.01.03.M.8
RM -9 Residential, Multiple -Family - 9 District ...........
3.01.03.N.8
RM -11 Residential, Multiple -Family - 11 District ........
3.01.03.0.8
RM -15 Residential, Multiple -Family - 15 District ........
3.01.03.P.8
RMH-5 Residential, Mobile Home - 5 District ............
3.01.03.K.7
RS -2 Residential, Single -Family - 2 District ...............
3.01.03.H.7
RS -3 Residential, Single -Family - 3 District ...............
3.01.03.I.7
RS -4 Residential, Single -Family - 4 District ...............
3.01.03.J.7
RVP Recreational Vehicle Park District ....................
3.01.03.Z.4
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Major Site Plans, Review of Applications for
Minor Adjustment to Major Site Plans .............
11.02.04.0
Minor Site Plans, Review of Applications for
Minor Adjustment to Minor Development Site
Plans...............................................
11.02.03.0
Stormwater Management
Exemptions from Stormwater Permits ...................
7.07.05
Swimming Pools ...............................................
8.00.05
Fencing Required ...........................................
8.00.05.A
Procedures for Waiver from Fencing Requirement .....
8.00.05.13
U Utilities District ............................................
3.01.03.W.8
Variances
Accessory Agricultural Structure, Administrative Vari-
ances to Construct an .................................
10.01.13
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCiA Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
ADULT ESTABLISHMENTS
CG Commercial, General District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.5.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards ....... 7.10.10
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:5 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
ACCESSORY BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND USES
(Cont'd.)
Zoning Districts
Use Regulations, Zoning District
Generally ..................................................
3.01.01.0
ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
Amendments to the Code and Official Zoning Atlas......
11.06.00 et seq.
See: AMENDMENTS
Appeals.........................................................
11.11.00 et seq.
See: APPEALS
Authorization by a Development Permit Required Prior
to Undertaking Any Development Activity ...........
11.01.00
Exceptions to Requirement of a Final Development
Order....................................................
11.01.03
Generally ....................................................
11.01.01
Post -Development Order Changes ........................
11.01.04
Prerequisites to Issuance of Development Permit......
11.01.02
Conditional Uses ..............................................
11.07.00 et seq.
See: CONDITIONAL USES
Development Agreements ....................................
11.08.00 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS
Development Permits, Procedure for Obtaining...........
11.05.00 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT PERMITS
Enforcement of Code Provisions ............................
11.13.00 et seq.
See: CODE ENFORCEMENT
Fees.............................................................
11.12.00
General Provisions. See herein specific subjects
Guarantees and Sureties .....................................
11.04.00 et seq.
See: GUARANTEES AND SURETIES
Hearing Procedures ...........................................
11.00.04 et seq.
See: HEARINGS
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution - Special
Master Review Process ..................................
11.14.00 et seq.
See: SPECIAL MASTER REVIEW PROCESS
Platting, Procedure for .......................................
11.03.00 et seq.
See: SUBDIVISIONS
Public Notice Requirements .................................
11.00.00 et seq.
See: PUBLIC NOTICE REQUIREMENTS
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for ........................
11.02.00 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
Right-of-way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
11.10.00 et seq.
See: RIGHT-OF-WAY ABANDONMENT AND PLAT
VACATION PROCEDURES
Vested Rights ..................................................
11.09.00 et seq.
See: VESTED RIGHTS
ADULT ESTABLISHMENTS
CG Commercial, General District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.5.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards ....... 7.10.10
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:5 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:6 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
ADVERTISING
CG Commercial, General District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.5.2
CO Commercial, Office District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.R.2
Newsracks
Installation and Maintenance .............................
7.10.26.G
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas .............
7.1023.P
General....................................................
7.10.23.0
AFFIRMATION. See: OATH, AFFIRMATION, SWEAR OR
SWORN
AG -1 AGRICULTURAL - 1 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.A.8
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.A.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Mobile Homes as Accessory Uses .........................
7.10.05
Sewage and Septage Treatment Facilities in Agricultural
Zoning Districts ........................................
7.10.13
Development Permits
Class A Mobile Home Permits
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home
Permit Applications .................................
11.05.02.1)
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.A.4
Landscaping Requirements ..................................
3.01.03.A.6
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.A.3
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...........
3.01.03.A.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.A.2
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Permitted Uses
Commercial or Industrial Classified Land Use Area,
For Properties Located in any .....................
7.02.02.13
Residential or Agricultural Classified Land Use
Area, For Properties Located in any ..............
7.02.02.A
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.A.1
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:6 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
AMENDMENTS (Cont'd.)
Planning and Zoning Commission
Amendments to the Code and Official Zoning Atlas.
See herein that subject
Policies, Procedures and Provisions
Amendments to the Code and Official Zoning Atlas.
See herein that subject
Public Facilities
Review of Development Orders
Effect of a Development Agreement in Conjunction
with a Certificate of Capacity
Amendments to approved development agree-
ments............................................... 5.08.05.0
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SSA Designation ............................................ 4.05.07.F
AMUSEMENTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
CG Commercial, General District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.S.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.5.2
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Road Vehicle Parks
Generally ..................................................
7.10.21.13
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.AA.6
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
RLSA Town Design Criteria .........................
4.05.08.G.2
Temporary Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Temporary Uses Permitted ...................
8.02.02
ANCHORS AND TIEDOWNS
Newsracks
Emergency Removal ........................................
7.10.26.I
Installation and Maintenance .............................
7.10.26.G
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Signs Other Than Billboards
Ground Signs ...........................................
9.02.01.1)
Projecting Signs .......................................
9.02.01.0
ANIMALS AND FOWL
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District
Accessory Uses .............................................. 3.01.03.E.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Animals in Residential Districts ......................... 7.10.03
Endangered or Threatened Species ......................... 6.04.00 et seq.
See: ENDANGERED OR THREATENED SPECIES
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCiJ3 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
ANIMALS AND FOWL (Cont'd.)
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Enclosed Buildings, Groups of Buildings Used for
Production of Food, Produce, Animals,
Ornamental Plants or Trees in Agricultural
Zoning District ......................................
7.09.044
ANTENNAS. See: TOWERS AND ANTENNAS
APPEALS
Development Permits .........................................
11.05.03 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT PERMITS
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection .....................
6.04.01.I
Environmental Control Board
General authority ..........................................
11.11.01.13
Procedure, Appeals
Board of Adjustment, Environmental Control Board,
or the Board of County Commissioners, Appeals
of Decisions of the ...................................
11.11.02.F
Environmental Control Hearing Board ...............
11.11.02.G
Floodplain Management .....................................
6.05.07
Generally.......................................................
11.11.01
Authority....................................................
11.11.01.B
Persons Entitled to Initiate Appeal ......................
11.11.01.A
Hearings
Hearing Procedures
Appeals from Board of County Commissioners Deci-
sions ..................................................
11.00.04.H
Historic Preservation Designation Process and Procedure
Appealing Decisions of Board .............................
4.11.14
Appeal of Designation ......................................
4.11.06B.11
Newsracks
Application and Issuance of Certificate of Compliance
Denial; Appeals ...........................................
7.10.26.C(8)
Provisions re ................................................
7.10.26.J
Procedure, Appeals ...........................................
11.11.02
Board of Adjustment, Environmental Control Board,
or the Board of County Commissioners, Appeals of
Decisions of the ........................................
11.11.02.F
County Administrator, Appeals of Decisions of.........
11.11.02.E
Effect of Filing an Appeal .................................
11.11.02.13
Environmental Control Hearing Board ..................
11.11.02.G
Hearing ......................................................
11.11.02.1)
Procedures...................................................
11.11.02.A
Record........................................................
11.11.02.0
SitePlans ......................................................
11.02.03 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:14 Adopted
May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
APPEALS (Cont'd.)
Transportation Systems
Rights -of -Way Determinations and Dedications,
Improvements
Right -of -Way Dedication Requirements ............... 7.05.03.1.5
Variances....................................................... 10.01.07 et seq.
See: VARIANCES
Wellfield Protection
Special Exemptions
Review by the Growth Management Director ........ 6.03.06.0
APPOINTMENTS AND REMOVALS
Board of Adjustment
Membership: Appointment, Removal, Terms, Vacan-
cies, and Qualifications ............................... 12.04.02
Planning and Zoning Commission
Membership: Appointment, Removal, Terms, Vacan-
cies and Qualifications ................................ 12.02.02
AQUACULTURE
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Use Limitations, Research and Education Park Overlay
Zone
Permitted Uses ........................................... 4.03.05.A
Sea Turtle Protection ......................................... 6.04.02 et seq.
See: SEA TURTLE PROTECTION
AR -1 AGRICULTURAL, RESIDENTIAL - 1 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.E.7
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.E.6
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.10.03 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Development Permits
Class A Mobile Home Permits
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home
Permit Applications .................................
11.05.02.1)
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.E.4
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.E.3
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...........
3.01.03.E.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.E.2
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.E.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
ARCHITECTURE
CR Commercial Resort District
Use Standards
Architectural Design Standards ........................ 3.01.03.II.3.h
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Community Architectural Standards .................... 7.10.24
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCiJ5 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
AREA
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Dimension and Location Regulations ....................
8.00.02
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.A.4
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.B.4
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.C.4
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
Land Coverage ...........................................
7.10.18.F
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.E.4
CG Commercial, General District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.5.4
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.Q.4
CO Commercial, Office District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.R.4
CPUB Conservation - Public District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.HH.4
I Institutional District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.X.4
IH Industrial, Heavy District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.U.4
IL Industrial, Light District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.T.4
IX Industrial, Extraction District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.V.4
Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
Minimum Park Size ........................................
7.10.17.0
PCS (Planned Country Subdivision) District
Standards and Requirements
Size........................................................
3.01.03.FF.2.b
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District ........
7.03.03 et seq.
See: PMUD PLANNED MIXED USE DEVELOP-
MENT DISTRICT
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Standards and Requirements
Dimensional Requirements .............................
7.02.03.B
Minimum Size ............................................
7.02.03.A
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Standards and Requirements
Area, Yard, and Height Requirements ................
7.01.03.0
Minimum Size ............................................
7.01.03.A
R/C Residential/Conservation District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.D.4
RE -1 Residential, Estate - 1 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.F.4
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:16 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
AREA (Cont'd.)
RE -2 Residential, Estate - 2 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.G.4
Recreational Vehicle Parks
Minimum Park Size ........................................
7.10.16.0
RF Religious Facilities District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.Y.4
RM -5 Residential, Multiple -Family - 5 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.L.4
RM -7 Residential, Multiple -Family - 7 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.M.4
RM -9 Residential, Multiple -Family - 9 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.N.4
RM -11 Residential, Multiple -Family - 11 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.0.4
RM -15 Residential, Multiple -Family - 15 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.P.4
RMH-5 Residential, Mobile Home - 5 District
Density, Area, Yard, and Height Requirements ........
3.01.03.K.3
RS -2 Residential, Single -Family - 2 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.H.4
RS -3 Residential, Single -Family - 3 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.I.4
RS -4 Residential, Single -Family - 4 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.J.4
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Billboards .................................................
9.02.02
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs
Authorized Temporary Signs
Project Marketing Signs ..............................
9.01.02.D
Site Plans ......................................................
11.02.03 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
Compact Rural Development Design Criteria .....
4.05.08.G.4
Stormwater Management
Applicability to Existing Development
Expansion of Total Area .................................
7.07.09.A
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Performance Monitoring
Development Plans in TVC Overlay ...................
4.04.07.A
U Utilities District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.W.4
ARENAS. See: STADIUMS AND ARENAS
ASSESSMENTS
Development Design and Improvement Standards
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:17 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
ASSIGN OR TRANSFER
Section
ASSESSMENTS (Cont'd.)
Mobile Homes as Accessory Uses
Requirement for Agricultural Property Assessment
Designation ..........................................
7.10.05.A
Landscaping
Removal of Exotic Vegetation
4.05.05.D
Exotic Pest Plants; Maintenance and Removal
4.04.02 et seq.
Assessment of Cost of Abatement Against Property
Owner ..............................................
7.09.05.B.5
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Application Package, SSA
Natural Resource Index Assessment ................
4.05.07.C.3
Public Facilities Impact Assessments, SRA...........
4.05.08.11
ASSIGN OR TRANSFER
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Transfer and Use of Stewardship Credits ............
4.05.08.B
Stewardship Credits
Transfer of Stewardship Credits .......................
4.05.05.D
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)......
4.04.02 et seq.
See: TVC—OVERLAY ZONE (TOWNS, VILLAGES,
COUNTRYSIDE)
AVIATION. See: AIRPORTS AND AIRCRAFT
AWNINGS, BALCONIES AND CANOPIES
Sea Turtle Protection
New Beachfront Lighting, Standards for
Design and Positioning of Low Intensity Lighting...
6.04.02.I.5
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Signs Other Than Billboards
Canopy Signs ...........................................
9.02.0l.F
BALCONIES. See: AWNINGS, BALCONIES AND
CANOPIES
BANNERS. See: FLAGS, BANNERS AND PENNANTS
BARBER AND BEAUTY SHOPS
CG Commercial, General District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.S.2
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.Q.2
BARRIERS
Landscaping
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:18 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
BARRIERS (Cont'd.)
General Landscaping Requirements
Perimeter Landscaping Relating to Abutting Proper-
ties....................................................
7.09.04.B
Sea Turtle Protection .........................................
6.04.02 et seq.
See: SEA TURTLE PROTECTION
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report..
7.10.23.F
BEACHES AND SHORELINES
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Permitted Accessory Structures and Uses in
Residential, Agricultural, and Planned Unit
Development Districts ................................
8.00.03
Buffers
Riverine Shoreline Protection. See herein that subject
Coastal Area Protection ......................................
6.02.01 et seq.
See: COASTAL AREA PROTECTION
Coastal Construction Code ...................................
13.00.02 et seq.
See: COASTAL CONSTRUCTION CODE
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone
Intent........................................................
4.01.01
Riverine Shoreline Protection ...............................
6.02.02
Exemptions ..................................................
6.02.02.G
Hardened/Armored Shorelines ............................
6.02.02.1)
Littoral Zone Planting Requirement ..................
6.02.02.D.3
New Construction ........................................
6.02.02.D.1
Replacement Construction ..............................
6.02.02.D.2
Water Control Structure Maintenance ................
6.02.02.D.4
Indian River Lagoon Shorelines ..........................
6.02.02.0
Applicability ..............................................
6.02.02.C.I
Shoreline Buffer Requirements ........................
6.02.02.C.2
Minimum Planting requirements ........................
6.02.02.E
Preserve Area Management Plan ........................
6.02.02.F
Purpose and Intent .........................................
6.02.02.A
St. Lucie River Shoreline ..................................
6.02.02.13
Adjacent Riparian Wetlands ............................
6.02.02.B.3
Applicability ..............................................
6.02.02.B.1
Shoreline Buffer Requirements ........................
6.02.02.B.2
Violations....................................................
6.02.02.11
Sea Turtle Protection .........................................
6.04.02 et seq.
See: SEA TURTLE PROTECTION
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Billboards .................................................
9.02.02
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
tion of an Approved Notice of Vegetation
Removal ............................................
6.00.05.0
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:19 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
BEACHES AND SHORELINES (Cont'd.)
Riverine Shoreline Protection Regulations, Request for
a Variance from ........................................
10.01.30
Watercourses and Waterways
Riverine Shoreline Protection. See herein that subject
BEAUTY SHOPS. See: BARBER AND BEAUTY SHOPS
BED AND BREAKFAST RESIDENCES
Generally.......................................................
7.10.20.A
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.0 1.03.AA.6
Minimum Standards ..........................................
7.10.20.13
PRW (Planned Retail/Workplace) District
Standards and Requirements
Permitted Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.GG.2.e
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Standards and Requirements
Permitted Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.EE.2.h
RE -1 Residential, Estate - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.F.6
RE -2 Residential, Estate - 2 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.G.6
Restrictions....................................................
7.10.20.0
BERMS AND SWALES
Mining
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
Permit...................................................
6.06.01
BICYCLES
Transportation Systems
Sidewalks and Bikeways ..................................
7.05.04
BILLBOARDS. See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
BINS, CONTAINERS AND OTHER RECEPTACLES
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Loading Spaces and Waste Receptacles, Off -Street..
7.09.04.F
BLOCKS, LOTS AND PARCELS
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Dimension and Location Regulations ....................
8.00.02
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District ...............................
3.01.03.A.3
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District ...........................
3.01.03.B.3
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District ...............................
3.01.03.C.3
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
Block 7 Restrictions ......................................
7.10.18.0
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District ................
3.01.03.E.3
CG Commercial, General District ...........................
3.01.03.5.3
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District ....................
3.01.03.Q.3
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:20 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
BLOCKS, LOTS AND PARCELS (Cont'd.)
CO Commercial, Office District .............................
3.01.03.R.3
CPUB Conservation - Public District .......................
3.01.03.HH.3
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.04.01 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection
Generally ...............................................
6.04.01.B
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Lot Size Requirements .....................................
3.01.03.AA.10
Nonconforming Lots of Record ............................
3.01.03.AA.14
I Institutional District ........................................
3.01.03.X.3
IH Industrial, Heavy District ...............................
3.01.03.U.3
IL Industrial, Light District .................................
3.01.03.T.3
IX Industrial, Extraction District ...........................
3.01.03.V.3
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Existing Off -Street Parking and Loading Lots .......
7.09.04.G
Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
Lot Size Requirements .....................................
7.10.17.E
Nonconformities
Lots of Record, Nonconforming ...........................
10.00.04
PCS (Planned Country Subdivision) District
Standards and Requirements
Dimensional Requirements .............................
3.01.03.FF.2.d
PRW (Planned Retail/Workplace) District
Standards and Requirements
Development Standards for Lots .......................
3.01.03.GG.2.d
Lot Types ..................................................
3.0 1.03.GG.2.c
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District ...................
3.01.03.EE
et seq.
See: PTV (PLANNED TOWN OR VILLAGE) DISTRICT
R/C Residential/Conservation District .....................
3.01.03.D.3
RE -1 Residential, Estate - 1 District .......................
3.01.03.F.3
RE -2 Residential, Estate - 2 District .......................
3.01.03.G.3
Recreational Vehicle Parks
Lot Size Requirements .....................................
7.10.16.E
Maximum Lot Coverage ...................................
7.10.16.G
RF Religious Facilities District ..............................
3.01.03.Y.3
River Park—Community Overlay Zone
Performance Standards
Minimum Parcel Size ....................................
4.02.04.13
RM -5 Residential, Multiple -Family - 5 District ...........
3.01.03.L.3
RM -7 Residential, Multiple -Family - 7 District ...........
3.01.03.M.3
RM -9 Residential, Multiple -Family - 9 District ...........
3.01.03.N.3
RM -11 Residential, Multiple -Family - 11 District ........
3.01.03.0.3
RM -15 Residential, Multiple -Family - 15 District ........
3.01.03.P.3
RS -2 Residential, Single -Family - 2 District ...............
3.01.03.11.3
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:21 Adopted
May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
Section
BLOCKS, LOTS AND PARCELS (Cont'd.)
RS -3 Residential, Single -Family - 3 District ...............
3.01.03.I.3
RS -4 Residential, Single -Family - 4 District ...............
3.01.03.J.3
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
11.11.02.F
Compact Rural Development Design Criteria .....
4.05.08.G.4
RLSA Town Design Criteria .........................
4.05.08.G.2
Stormwater Management
Exemptions from Stormwater Permits ...................
7.07.05
Subdivisions
Platting, Procedure for
11.00.04.G
Minor Replats and Lot Splits, Procedure for .........
11.03.04
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
12.04.02
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report..
7.10.23.F
Transportation Systems
12.04.01
Rights -of -Way Determinations and Dedications,
12.04.06
Improvements
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:22 Adopted
Effect of Donation of Property in Computing Future
Residential Density on Remaining Conforming
Parcels of Land ......................................
7.05.03.F
U Utilities District ............................................
3.01.03.W.3
Utilities
Utility and Drainage Easements in Subdivisions
Option1 ...................................................
7.08.02.A
Water and Sewer Service Systems
Sewage Systems ..........................................
7.08.03.B
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
Appeals
Generally
Authority ..................................................
11.11.01.13
Procedure, Appeals
Board of Adjustment, Environmental Control Board,
or the Board of County Commissioners, Appeals
of Decisions of the ...................................
11.11.02.F
Chairman and Vice -Chairman ..............................
12.04.03
Development Permits .........................................
11.05.06 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT PERMITS
Hearings
Hearing Procedures
Reconsideration of Action ...............................
11.00.04.G
Meetings, Hearings, and Procedures .......................
12.04.07
Membership: Appointment, Removal, Terms, Vacancies,
and Qualifications .......................................
12.04.02
Office of the Growth Management Director ...............
12.04.05
Powers and Duties ............................................
12.04.01
Quorum and Necessary Vote ................................
12.04.06
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:22 Adopted
May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT (Cont'd.)
Secretary.......................................................
12.04.04
Variances.......................................................
10.01.01 et seq.
See: VARIANCES
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Swimming Pools
Procedures for Waiver from Fencing Requirement ..
8.00.05.13
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
General Provisions .......................................
7.10.18.1)
Amendments ...................................................
11.06.02 et seq.
See: AMENDMENTS
Appeals
Procedure, Appeals
Board of Adjustment, Environmental Control Board,
or the Board of County Commissioners, Appeals
of Decisions of the ...................................
11.11.02.F
Conditional Uses ..............................................
11.07.01 et seq.
See: CONDITIONAL USES
Development Agreements
Procedure for Review of a Development Agreement
Decision by Board of County Commissioners.........
11.08.02.E
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Community Residential Homes ...........................
7.10.07
Development Permits .........................................
11.05.02 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT PERMITS
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection
Public Acquisition .....................................
6.04.01.F
Hearings
Hearing Procedures
Appeals from Board of County Commissioners Deci-
sions ..................................................
11.00.04.H
Reconsideration of Action ...............................
11.00.04.G
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Intent of Application .......................................
3.01.03.AA.2
Landscaping
Removal of Exotic Vegetation
Exotic Pest Plants; Maintenance and Removal
Right of Hearing Before the Board of County
Commissioners ....................................
7.09.05.B.3
Mining
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
Permit...................................................
6.06.01
Newsracks
Appeals......................................................
7.10.26.J
Rights Preserved ...........................................
7.10.26.L
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:23 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES
Board of Adjustment .......................................... 12.04.00 et seq.
See: BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
Board of County Commissioners ............................ 12.00.00
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:24 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (Cont'd.)
PCS (Planned Country Subdivision) District
Standards and Requirements
Compatibility .............................................
3.01.03.FF.2.f
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Standards and Requirements
Phasing....................................................
7.03.03.L
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Standards and Requirements
Phasing....................................................
7.02.03.I
Provisions re ...................................................
12.00.00
PRW (Planned Retail/Workplace) District
Approval Process ...........................................
3.01.03.GG.3
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Approval Process ...........................................
3.01.03.EE.3
Public Facilities
Adequate Public Facilities
Authority and Applicability .............................
5.00.03
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Standards and Requirements
Phasing....................................................
7.01.03.L
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
Authority and Applicability ...............................
11.10.01
Review of Petition
Board of County Commissioners, Review of ..........
11.10.06.B
Site Plans ......................................................
11.02.04 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Applications for New Wireless Telecommunications
Towers and Antennas ..............................
7.10.23.D
General Requirements for the Location of New Wire-
less Telecommunications Towers on County
Property..............................................
7.10.23.I
Transportation Systems ......................................
7.05.03 et seq.
See: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Public Acquisition of Transferable Development Rights
4.04.05.K
Utilities
Water and Sewer Service Systems
Waiver of Dry Line Requirements .....................
7.08.03.0
Variances
Driveway Regulations, Administrative Variances from
Requirements of .......................................
10.01.21
BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES
Board of Adjustment .......................................... 12.04.00 et seq.
See: BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
Board of County Commissioners ............................ 12.00.00
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:24 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES (Cont'd.)
Development Review Committee ............................ 12.09.00 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE
Environmental Control Board; Environmental Officer;
Environmental Control Hearing Board ............... 12.01.00
Regulations and Requirements ........................... 12.01.01
Historic Preservation Commission .......................... 4.11.05
Planning and Zoning Commission .......................... 12.02.00 et seq.
See: PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
BOATS, DOCKS AND PIERS
6.02.02 et seq.
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Permitted Accessory Structures and Uses in
Residential, Agricultural, and Planned Unit
Development Districts ................................
8.00.03
Development Design and Improvement Standards
7.04.02.13
Outdoor Displays in Commercial Zoning Districts
Exceptions ................................................
7.10.02.B
IH Industrial, Heavy District
6.06.03
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.U.2
Sea Turtle Protection
11.10.03
Existing Beachfront Lighting, Standards for
Lighting for Pedestrian Traffic .........................
6.04.02.J.4
New Beachfront Lighting, Standards for
13.00.01.0
Lighting for Pedestrian Traffic .........................
6.04.02.I.8
Wetlands Protection
Exemptions ..................................................
6.02.03.G
BODIES OF WATER
Beaches and Shorelines ......................................
6.02.02 et seq.
See: BEACHES AND SHORELINES
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements
Open Space Requirements
General Guidelines ....................................
7.04.02.13
Mining
Excavation or Mining Resulting in the Creation of a
WaterBody .............................................
6.06.03
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
Access to Water .............................................
11.10.03
BONDS, SURETY OR PERFORMANCE
Building Code
Bond Required, Moving of Buildings .....................
13.00.01.0
Guarantees and Sureties .....................................
11.04.00 et seq.
See: GUARANTEES AND SURETIES
Mining
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
Permit...................................................
6.06.01
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:25 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
BOUNDARIES
Section
BONDS, SURETY OR PERFORMANCE (Cont'd.)
Newsracks
Application and Issuance of Certificate of Compliance
11.05.07.B
Additional Certificate of Compliance ..................
7.10.26.C(7)
Certificate of Compliance, Issuance of ................
7.10.26.C(5)
Subdivisions
Platting, Procedure for
6.04.01.G
Final Record Plat, Review of
Developers Option to Record a Final Record Plat
Prior to the Completion of Construction.......
11.03.03.13
Towers and Antennas
7.09.04.B
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Security Fund ............................................
7.10.23.H
Transportation Systems
6.06.01
Sidewalks and Bikeways
Time of Construction ....................................
7.05.04.D
BOUNDARIES
Development Permits
Stormwater Permits
Contents, Application ....................................
11.05.07.B
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection
Determination of Sufficiency .........................
6.04.01.G
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Perimeter Landscaping Relating to Abutting Proper-
ties....................................................
7.09.04.B
Mining
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
Permit...................................................
6.06.01
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Standards and Requirements
Planned Mixed Use Development Perimeter Buffers
7.03.03.I
Sea Turtle Protection
General Standards for Coastal Development within
Jurisdictional Boundaries ............................
6.04.02.G
Jurisdiction..................................................
6.04.02.0
Sea Turtle Protection Plan (STPP) Requirement for
Coastal Development within Jurisdictional
Boundaries .............................................
6.04.02.E
Subdivisions
Platting, Procedure for
Requirements, Platting
Geodetic Control, Requirements for .................
11.03.01.1)
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)......
4.04.02 et seq.
See: TVC—OVERLAY ZONE (TOWNS, VILLAGES,
COUNTRYSIDE)
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:26 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
BRIDGES AND CULVERTS
Development Permits
Driveway Permits
Curb Cuts, Driveways and Culverts Constructed
Without Driveway Permit ..........................
11.05.03.F
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.AA.5
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone
Exceptions...................................................
4.01.05
Transportation Systems
Driveways
Culvert Requirements ...................................
7.05.06.1)
General Provisions .........................................
7.05.01
BUFFERS
Beaches and Shorelines ......................................
6.02.02 et seq.
See: BEACHES AND SHORELINES
CR Commercial Resort District
Landscaping Requirements
Buffering and Screening ................................
3.01.03.II.a
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Car Washes, Self -Service ..................................
7.10.22
Off -Road Vehicle Parks
Generally..................................................
7.10.21.B
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Back -Siphonage and Backflow Preventers, Landscap-
ing and Screening Requirements for .............
7.09.04.H
Landscaped Buffer Areas between Non -Residential
or Residential Structure(s) Housing Three (3) or
More Dwelling Units and Single -Family or Two -
Family Residential Uses ...........................
7.09.04.E
Mining
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
Permit...................................................
6.06.0 1
Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks ....................
7.10.17.I
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Standards and Requirements
Buffers and Landscaping between Uses Within the
Planned Mixed Use Development .................
7.03.03.H
Planned Mixed Use Development Perimeter Buffers
7.03.03.1
Recreational Vehicle Parks ..................................
7.10.16.L
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Performance Standards
Landscaping Requirements .............................
4.03.04.E
River Park—Community Overlay Zone
Performance Standards ....................................
4.02.04.F
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria ...........................................
4.05.08.G.5
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:27 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses .................
Section
BUFFERS (Cont'd.)
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Aesthetics .................................................
7.10.23.G
Wetlands Protection
7.10.18.1
Required Buffering .........................................
6.02.03.F
BUILDING CODE
Adopted.........................................................
13.00.01.A
Bond Required, Moving of Buildings .......................
13.00.01.0
Coastal Construction Code ...................................
13.00.02 et seq.
See: COASTAL CONSTRUCTION CODE
6.02.01.E et seq.
Local Amendments to the Administrative Procedures
Chapter of the Florida Building Code .................
13.00.01.13
Moving of Buildings, Improvements by Owner............
13.00.01.1)
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Building Codes/Safety Standards ......................
7.10.23.E
BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses .................
8.00.00 et seq.
See: ACCESSORY BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND
USES
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
Height, Building .........................................
7.10.18.1
Setbacks, Building .......................................
7.10.18.G
Airport Overlay Zones
Generally....................................................
4.00.01
Building Code .................................................
13.00.00 et seq.
See: BUILDING CODE
Coastal Area Protection ......................................
6.02.01.E et seq.
See: COASTAL AREA PROTECTION
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.04.01 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Development Permits
Building and Sign Permits ................................
11.05.01
Exterior Property Maintenance Code ......................
13.09.00 et seq.
See: EXTERIOR PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE
Floodplain Management .....................................
6.05.01 et seq.
See: FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Dimensional/Building Height Requirements............
3.01.03.AA.11
Residential Densities
Existing Uses .............................................
3.0 1.03.AA.7.b
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone ......
4.01.00 et seq.
See: HUTCHINSON ISLAND—BUILDING HEIGHT
OVERLAY ZONE
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:28 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:29 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS (Cont'd.)
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Enclosed Buildings or Groups of Buildings Used for
the Production of Food, Produce, Animals (Land
or Water Species), or Ornamental Plants or
Trees in a Agricultural Zoning District, Landscap-
ing Requirements for ...............................
7.09.044
Perimeter Landscaping Relating to Abutting Proper-
ties....................................................
7.09.04.13
Nonconformities
Lots of Record, Nonconforming ...........................
10.00.04
Structures, Nonconforming ................................
10.00.03
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Standards and Requirements
Building Form and Placement on Lots ................
3.01.03.EE.2.f
Civic Spaces and Civic Buildings ......................
3.01.03.EE.2.n
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Performance Standards
Building Height ..........................................
4.03.04.A
River Park—Community Overlay Zone
Performance Standards
Building Height ..........................................
4.02.04.A
Sea Turtle Protection
Site Development, Standards for
Location, Alignment, and Placement of Structures..
6.04.02.H.1
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Major Site Plans, Review of Applications for
Minor Adjustment to Major Site Plans .............
11.02.04.0
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
Compact Rural Development Design Criteria .....
4.05.08.G.4
Standard Housing Code ......................................
13.08.00 et seq.
See: STANDARD HOUSING CODE
Temporary Buildings, Structures and Uses ...............
8.02.00 et seq.
See: TEMPORARY BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND
USES
Towers and Antennas ........................................
7.10.23 et seq.
See: TOWERS AND ANTENNAS
Transportation Systems
Driveways ...................................................
7.05.06.B
House and Building Numbers ............................
7.05.09
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Specific Standards, TVC
Standards for New Residential Buildings ............
4.04.04.F
BURNING. See: OPEN BURNING
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:29 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
C
CAMPS, CAMPING
Section
BUSINESSES AND BUSINESS REGULATIONS
CG Commercial, General District ...........................
3.01.03.5
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District ....................
3.01.03.Q
CO Commercial, Office District .............................
3.01.03.R
CR Commercial Resort District .............................
3.01.03.II
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.00.01 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.5.7
MENT STANDARDS
Lucie County Land Development Code
Home Occupations ............................................
8.01.00 et seq.
See: HOME OCCUPATIONS
Landscaping...................................................
7.09.02 et seq.
See: LANDSCAPING
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Purpose......................................................
7.03.01
Standards and Requirements
Residential Density and Non -Residential Floor Area
Ratios.................................................
7.03.03.B
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District....
7.02.00 et seq.
See: PNRD PLANNED NONRESIDENTIAL DEVELOP-
MENT DISTRICT
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Authorized Uses
Nonresidential Development Uses .....................
7.01.02.13
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Use Limitations, Research and Education Park Overlay
Zone
Conditional Uses .........................................
4.03.05.13
River Park—Community Overlay Zone ....................
4.02.00 et seq.
See: RIVER PARK—COMMUNITY OVERLAY ZONE
Stormwater Management
Local Jurisdictional Permit Requirements
Requirement for Dry Detention/Retention............
7.07.07.0
Transportation Systems
Sidewalks and Bikeways
Sidewalks.................................................
7.05.04.A
Use of Residential Property for Access ..................
7.05.05
Wellfield Protection ...........................................
6.03.01 et seq.
See: WELLFIELD PROTECTION
C
CAMPS, CAMPING
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.A.7
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.B.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.C.7
CG Commercial, General District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.5.7
St.
Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:30
Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
CAMPS, CAMPING (Cont'd.)
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Recreational Vehicles; Use as Residence Outside of
Approved Camps or Parks Restricted ............... 7.10.06
I Institutional District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.X.7
CANOPIES. See: AWNINGS, BALCONIES AND CANOPIES
CAR WASHES
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.Q.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Car Washes, Self -Service .................................. 7.10.22
CARPORTS AND GARAGES
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Permitted Accessory Structures and Uses in
Residential, Agricultural, and Planned Unit
Development Districts ................................ 8.00.03
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Performance Standards
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...... 4.03.04.F
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Specific Standards, TVC
Standards for New Residential Buildings ............ 4.04.04.F
CEMETERIES
I Institutional District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.X.7
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Billboards ................................................. 9.02.02
Permitting and Exemptions
Exceptions ................................................ 9.04.02
CERTIFICATES, CERTIFICATION
Development Permits
Certificates of Zoning Compliance ........................ 11.05.00.13
Guarantees and Sureties
Generally
Release of Security Following Completion of Required
Improvements ....................................... 11.04.01.E
Historic Preservation Regulations
Certificate of Appropriateness ............................ 4.11.09
Certificate to Dig ........................................... 4.11.13
Newsracks
Application and Issuance of Certificate of Compliance 7.10.26.0
Certificate of Compliance Required ...................... 7.10.26.13
Public Facilities ............................................... 5.03.03 et seq.
See: PUBLIC FACILITIES
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:31 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
CERTIFICATES, CERTIFICATION (Cont'd.)
Sea Turtle Protection
New Beachfront Lighting, Standards for
Beachfront Lighting Approval ..........................
6.04.02.I.9
Subdivisions
Platting, Procedure for
Final Record Plat, Review of
Required Certifications of the Record Plat.........
11.03.03.E
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
General Requirements for the Location of New Wire-
less Telecommunications Towers on County
Property ..............................................
7.10.23.I
Transportation Systems
Driveways, Building Regulations .........................
7.05.06.B
House and Building Numbers
Placement Required Prior to Issuance of Certificate
7.05.09.0
Utilities
Utility and Drainage Easements in Subdivisions
Option 2 ...................................................
7.08.02.B
CG COMMERCIAL, GENERAL DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.5.8
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.5.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Adult Establishments ......................................
7.10.10
Membership Organizations; Enclosed Assembly Areas
7.10.31
Mobile Food Vendors .......................................
7.10.01
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.5.4
Landscaping Requirements ..................................
3.01.03.5.6
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.5.3
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...........
3.01.03.5.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.5.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District ........
7.03.02 et seq.
See: PMUD PLANNED MIXED USE DEVELOP-
MENT DISTRICT
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Permitted Uses
Commercial or Industrial Classified Land Use Area,
For Properties Located in any .....................
7.02.02.13
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.S.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
CHARGES, FEES AND RATES
Administration and Enforcement
Fees...........................................................
11.12.00
Code Enforcement
Enforcement of Code Provisions
Environmental Control Provisions, Enforcement
Procedures for
Fee Schedule ...........................................
11.13.02.0
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:32 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
CIRCUIT COURT
Code Enforcement
Enforcement of Code Provisions
Environmental Control Provisions, Enforcement
Procedures for
Criminal Enforcement; Procedures .................. 11.13.02.A
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDC1:33 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
CHARGES, FEES AND RATES (Cont'd.)
Conditional Uses
Application Procedures
Filing Application for Conditional Use Permit .......
11.07.05.13
Development Permits .........................................
11.05.02 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT PERMITS
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection .....................
6.04.01.H
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Residential Densities
Credit for Payment of Roads Impact Fee .............
3.01.03.AA.7.e
Payment of Alternate Development Fee ...............
3.01.03.AA.7.c
Newsracks
Application and Issuance of Certificate of Compliance
Additional Certificate of Compliance ..................
7.10.26.C(7)
Fees...........................................................
7.10.26.E
Public Facilities
Fees...........................................................
5.11.00
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
11.10.02 et seq.
See: RIGHT-OF-WAY ABANDONMENT AND PLAT
VACATION PROCEDURES
Special Master Review Process
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution -
Special Master Review Process
Special Master
Service Fees, Special Master .........................
11.14.06.1)
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SSA Designation
Application Package, SSA
Application Fee ........................................
4.05.07.C.2
Review Process, SSA
Submittal and Processing Fees, Application Pack-
age..................................................
4.05.07.D.2
Towers and Antennas ........................................
7.10.23 et seq.
See: TOWERS AND ANTENNAS
Variances.......................................................
10.01.04 et seq.
See: VARIANCES
Wellfield Protection
Special Exemptions
Information and fee required ...........................
6.03.06.13
CHURCHES. See: RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS
CIRCUIT COURT
Code Enforcement
Enforcement of Code Provisions
Environmental Control Provisions, Enforcement
Procedures for
Criminal Enforcement; Procedures .................. 11.13.02.A
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDC1:33 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
CLASSES, CLASSIFICATION
Development Permits
Mining Permits
Classes of Permit; Time Limits ......................... 11.05.11.13
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Standards and Requirements
Traffic and Pedestrian Circulation
Roadway Classification ............................... 7.03.03.E.1
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ........................................... 4.04.05.H
CN COMMERCIAL, NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
Section
CIRCUIT COURT (Cont'd.)
3.01.03.Q.7
Development Agreements
Enforcement .................................................
11.08.10
CIVIC, SOCIAL AND FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS
7.10.31
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
3.01.03.Q.4
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.Q.2
I Institutional District
3.01.03.Q.3
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.X.7
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
3.01.03.Q.2
Standards and Requirements
7.03.02 et seq.
Civic Spaces and Civic Buildings ......................
3.01.03.EE.2.n
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Billboards .................................................
9.02.02
CLASSES, CLASSIFICATION
Development Permits
Mining Permits
Classes of Permit; Time Limits ......................... 11.05.11.13
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Standards and Requirements
Traffic and Pedestrian Circulation
Roadway Classification ............................... 7.03.03.E.1
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ........................................... 4.04.05.H
CN COMMERCIAL, NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.Q.8
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.Q.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Car Washes, Self -Service ..................................
7.10.22
Membership Organizations; Enclosed Assembly Areas
7.10.31
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.Q.4
Landscaping Requirements ..................................
3.01.03.Q.6
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.Q.3
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...........
3.01.03.Q.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.Q.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District ........
7.03.02 et seq.
See: PMUD PLANNED MIXED USE DEVELOP-
MENT DISTRICT
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Permitted Uses
Commercial or Industrial Classified Land Use Area,
For Properties Located in any .....................
7.02.02.13
Residential or Agricultural Classified Land Use
Area, For Properties Located in any ..............
7.02.02.A
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:34 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
CN COMMERCIAL, NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRICT (Cont'd.)
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Authorized Uses
Nonresidential Development Uses ..................... 7.01.02.13
Purpose......................................................... 3.01.03.Q.1
Signs and Billboards .......................................... 9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
COASTAL AREA PROTECTION
Beach and Dune Protection ..................................
6.02.01.E
Buildings and Building Regulations
Design and/or Positioning of Structures ..............
6.02.01.E.4
Erosion Control
Replacement of Damaged Structure ................
6.02.01.E.6.b
Restrictions on the Use of Rigid, Fixed Above -
Ground Structures and Materials ................
6.02.01.E.3
Criteria, Beach and Dune .................................
6.02.01.E.2
Design and/or Positioning of Structures .................
6.02.01.E.4
Dune Preservation Zone Restriction .....................
6.02.01.E.1
Erosion Control .............................................
6.02.01.E.6
Limitations ................................................
6.02.01.E.6. a
Replacement of Damaged Structure ...................
6.02.01.E.6.b
Restrictions on the Use of Rigid, Fixed Above -Ground
Structures and Materials .............................
6.02.01.E.3
Treatment of Impenetrable, Buried, Synthetic Materi-
als.......................................................
6.02.01.E.5
Buildings and Building Regulations
Beach and Dune Protection. See herein that subject
Dune Landscaping ............................................
6.02.01.G
Minimum Criteria ..........................................
6.02.01.G.1
Sprinkler Systems ..........................................
6.02.01.G.2
Dune Restoration .............................................
6.02.01.F
Beach Nourishment, Dune Restoration with............
6.02.01.F.3
Character of Restored and Stabilized Beaches and
Dunes...................................................
6.02.01.F.5
Developed Sites .............................................
6.02.01.F.2
Height
Developed Sites ..........................................
6.02.01.F.2
Height Elevation, Dune Restoration ...................
6.02.01.F.4
Restoration Requirement ...............................
6.02.01.F.1
Height Elevation, Dune Restoration .....................
6.02.01.F.4
Restoration Requirement ..................................
6.02.01.F.1
Dunes
Beach and Dune Protection ...............................
6.02.01.E
Dune Landscaping ..........................................
6.02.01.G
Dune Restoration ...........................................
6.02.01.F
Shoreline Access Requirements
Beach -Dune Shoreline Criteria .........................
6.02.01.H.5
Environmentally Sensitive Resources and Habitats......
6.02.01.0
Alteration, Degradation or Destruction Criteria .......
6.02.01.C.1
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:35 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
COASTAL AREA PROTECTION (Cont'd.)
Groundwater and Surface Water .........................
6.02.01.C.2
Permit required .............................................
6.02.01.C.4
Protected Species ...........................................
6.02.01.C.3
Notification Requirement ...............................
6.02.0l.C.3.b
Pre -development .........................................
6.02.0l.C.3.a
Height
Dune Restoration. See herein that subject
Landscaping
Dune Landscaping ..........................................
6.02.01.G
Shoreline Access Requirements
Landscape and Scenic Views ...........................
6.02.01.H.3
Vegetation and Landscaping ..............................
6.02.01.1)
Overall Review and Consistency ............................
6.02.01.13
Purpose and Intent ...........................................
6.02.01.A
Renovations, Repairs and Restorations
Beach and Dune Protection
Erosion Control
Replacement of Damaged Structure ................
6.02.0l.E.6.b
Restrictions on the Use of Rigid, Fixed Above -
Ground Structures and Materials ................
6.02.01.E.3
Dune Restoration ...........................................
6.02.0l.F
Shoreline Access Requirements .............................
6.02.01.H
Beach -Dune Shoreline Criteria ...........................
6.02.01.H.5
Estuarine Shoreline Criteria ..............................
6.02.01.H.4
Landscape and Scenic Views ..............................
6.02.01.H.3
Plan Requirement ..........................................
6.02.01.H.1
Walkway Criteria ...........................................
6.02.01.H.2
Use of Public Funds in Coastal High Hazard Area.......
6.02.01.I
Vegetation and Landscaping .................................
6.02.01.1)
Landscape Criteria for Native or Drought Tolerant
Vegetation ..............................................
6.02.01.D.3
Minimum Disturbance .....................................
6.02.01.D.2
Selective Clearing and Micro -Siting .....................
6.02.01.D.1
COASTAL CONSTRUCTION CODE
Purpose.........................................................
13.00.02.13
Requirements, Coastal Construction .......................
13.00.02.1)
Scope............................................................
13.00.02.0
Title.............................................................
13.00.02.A
CO COMMERCIAL, OFFICE DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.R.8
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.R.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Membership Organizations; Enclosed Assembly Areas
7.10.31
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.R.4
Landscaping Requirements ..................................
3.01.03.R.6
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.R.3
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...........
3.01.03.R.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.R.2
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:36 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
CODE ENFORCEMENT
Section
CO COMMERCIAL, OFFICE DISTRICT (Cont'd.)
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District ........
7.03.02 et seq.
See: PMUD PLANNED MIXED USE DEVELOP-
MENT DISTRICT
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
11.13.02
Permitted Uses
11.13.02.13
Commercial or Industrial Classified Land Use Area,
11.13.02.H
For Properties Located in any .....................
7.02.02.13
Residential or Agricultural Classified Land Use
11.13.02.A
Area, For Properties Located in any ..............
7.02.02.A
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.R.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
CODE ENFORCEMENT
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Scrap, Waste and Recycling Operations .................
7.10.12
Enforcement of Code Provisions
Environmental Control Provisions, Enforcement
Procedures for ..........................................
11.13.02
Civil Enforcement; Procedure ..........................
11.13.02.13
Civil Penalties—Violations .............................
11.13.02.H
Construction in Relation to Other Law ...............
11.13.02.K
Criminal Enforcement; Procedures ....................
11.13.02.A
Enforcement of Environmental Control Hearing Board
Orders and Injunction Relief ......................
11.13.02.F
Fee Schedule ..............................................
11.13.02.0
Fines, Forfeitures and Other Penalties
Civil Penalties—Violations ...........................
11.13.02.H
Liens, Civil Fines to be ...............................
11.13.02.I
Violations and Penalties ..............................
11.13.02.E
Violations—Criminal Penalties ......................
11.13.02.G
Incorporation of Other Laws ...........................
11.13.02.L
Liens, Civil Fines to be ..................................
11.13.02.1
Parties of Violations .....................................
11.13.02.1)
Powers of Health Department ..........................
11.13.02.M
Refusal to Obey Subpoena Issued by the Hearing
Board .................................................
11.13.02.J
Violations and Penalties ................................
11.13.02.E
Violations—Criminal Penalties .........................
11.13.02.G
Fines, Forfeitures and Other Penalties
Environmental Control Provisions, Enforcement
Procedures for. See within this subheading that
subject
Other Penalties and Remedies
Civil Remedies .........................................
11.13.1
Criminal Penalties ....................................
11.13.2
Generally ....................................................
11.13.01
Code Enforcement Board, Enforcement by ...........
11.13.0l.A
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:37 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
CODE ENFORCEMENT (Cont'd.)
Environmental Control Hearing Board, Enforce-
ment by ............................................... 11.13.01.13
Other Penalties and Remedies ............................ 11.13.03
Civil Remedies ........................................... 11.13.1
Criminal Penalties ....................................... 11.13.2
Fines, Forfeitures and Other Penalties
Enforcement of Code Provisions. See herein that subject
CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD
Code Enforcement
Enforcement of Code Provisions
Generally
Code Enforcement Board, Enforcement by......... 11.13.0l.A
CODES
Amendments to the Code and Official Zoning Atlas......
11.06.00 et seq.
See: AMENDMENTS
Building Code .................................................
13.00.01 et seq.
See: BUILDING CODE
Coastal Construction Code ...................................
13.00.02 et seq.
See: COASTAL CONSTRUCTION CODE
Conditional Uses
Standards for Review of Conditional Use Permits
Consistency with Local Code and Comprehensive
Plan ...................................................
11.07.A
Enforcement of Code Provisions ............................
11.13.00 et seq.
See: CODE ENFORCEMENT
Exterior Property Maintenance Code ......................
13.09.01 et seq.
See: EXTERIOR PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE
Land Development Code .....................................
1.00.00 et seq.
See: LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Standard Housing Code ......................................
13.08.01 et seq.
See: STANDARD HOUSING CODE
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Building Codes/Safety Standards ......................
7.10.23.E
COMMISSIONS. See: BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND
COMMITTEES
COMMITTEES. See: BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COM-
MITTEES
COMMUNICATIONS
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.B.7
CG Commercial, General District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.5.2
CO Commercial, Office District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.R.2
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:38 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
COMMUNICATIONS (Cont'd.)
IH Industrial, Heavy District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.U.2
IL Industrial, Light District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.T.2
U Utilities District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.W.2
COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL HOMES
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.10.07
I Institutional District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.X.2
PRW (Planned Retail/Workplace) District
7.10.34.H
Standards and Requirements
7.10.34.A
Permitted Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.GG.2.e
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
7.10.34.I
Standards and Requirements
Permitted Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.EE.2.h
RM -5 Residential, Multiple -Family - 5 District
7.10.34.E
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.L.2
RM -7 Residential, Multiple -Family - 7 District
7.10.34.D
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.M.2
RM -9 Residential, Multiple -Family - 9 District
7.10.34.F
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.N.2
RM -11 Residential, Multiple -Family - 11 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.0.2
RM -15 Residential, Multiple -Family - 15 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.P.2
COMPOSTING
Commercial Composting Facilities
Applicability.................................................
7.10.34.13
Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies ................
7.10.34.H
Intent........................................................
7.10.34.A
Interpretation of the Definitions and Terms Used in
These Supplemental Standards ......................
7.10.34.I
Supplemental Standards
Controlling Objectionable Odors from Commercial
Composting Facilities ...............................
7.10.34.E
Controlling Water Quality Impacts from Commercial
Composting Facilities ...............................
7.10.34.D
Other Supplemental Standards for Commercial Com-
posting Facilities ....................................
7.10.34.F
Waivers of Supplemental Standards .....................
7.10.34.G
Zoning Districts where Commercial Composting Facili-
ties are Allowed ........................................
7.10.34.0
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
Conditional Uses
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:39 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN (Cont'd.)
Standards for Review of Conditional Use Permits
Consistency with Local Code and Comprehensive
Plan................................................... 11.07.A
Site Plans ...................................................... 11.02.07 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
CONDITIONAL USES
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Authorization ...............................................
8.00.01
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District ...............................
3.01.03.A.7
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District ...........................
3.01.03.B.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District ...............................
3.01.03.C.7
Application Procedures .......................................
11.07.05
Board of County Commissioners, Hearing and Action
by ........................................................
11.07.05.1)
Development and Adjustment of an Approved or Exist-
ing Conditional Use ...................................
11.07.05.E
Existing Conditional Uses .................................
11.07.05.G
Expiration of Conditional Use Permit ...................
11.07.05.I
Extensions of Conditional Use Permits ..................
11.07.05.F
Filing Application for Conditional Use Permit .........
11.07.05.13
Licenses and Permits
Expiration of Conditional Use Permit .................
11.07.05.I
Extensions of Conditional Use Permits ...............
11.07.05.F
Filing Application for Conditional Use Permit .......
11.07.05.13
Revocation of Conditional Use Permit .................
11.07.05.H
Limitations on Approval for Conditional Uses..........
11.07.05.J
Planning and Zoning Commission, Hearing and Action
by........................................................
11.07.05.0
Pre -Application Conference ...............................
11.07.05.A
Revocation of Conditional Use Permit ...................
11.07.05.H
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District ................
3.01.03.E.6
Board of County Commissions
Application Procedures
Board of County Commissioners, Hearing and Action
by......................................................
11.07.05.1)
Development and Adjustment of an Approved or
Existing Conditional Use ..........................
11.07.05.E
General Provisions
Authority ..................................................
11.07.01.13
CG Commercial, General District ...........................
3.01.03.5.7
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District ....................
3.01.03.Q.7
CO Commercial, Office District .............................
3.01.03.R.7
Conditions on Conditional Use Permits ....................
11.07.04
Access Improvements ......................................
11.07.04.13
Projects Requiring Other Regulatory Approval.........
11.07.04.0
Reduction in Maximum Residential Density............
11.07.04.1)
Traffic Control Devices ....................................
11.07.04.A
CPUB Conservation - Public District .......................
3.01.03.HH.7
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCiA0 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
CONDITIONAL USES (Cont'd.)
CR Commercial Resort District .............................
3.01.03.II.7
General Provisions ............................................
11.07.01
Authority ....................................................
11.07.01.B
Purpose ......................................................
11.07.01.A
Requirement for Four -Fifths Vote when Protest is
Filed .....................................................
11.07.0l.0
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District ............
3.01.03.AA.6
I Institutional District ........................................
3.01.03.X.7
IH Industrial, Heavy District ...............................
3.01.03.U.7
IL Industrial, Light District .................................
3.01.03.T.7
IX Industrial, Extraction District ...........................
3.01.03.V.7
Licenses and Permits
Application Procedures. See herein that subject
Conditions on Conditional Use Permits .................
11.07.04
Standards for Review of Conditional Use Permits .....
11.07.03
Persons Entitled to Initiate Applications ..................
11.07.02
R/C Residential/Conservation District .....................
3.01.03.D.7
RE -1 Residential, Estate - 1 District .......................
3.01.03.F.6
RE -2 Residential, Estate - 2 District .......................
3.01.03.G.6
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Use Limitations, Research and Education Park Overlay
Zone.....................................................
4.03.05.13
RF Religious Facilities District ..............................
3.01.03.Y.7
RM -5 Residential, Multiple -Family - 5 District ...........
3.01.03.L.7
RM -7 Residential, Multiple -Family - 7 District ...........
3.01.03.M.7
RM -9 Residential, Multiple -Family - 9 District ...........
3.01.03.N.7
RM -11 Residential, Multiple -Family - 11 District ........
3.01.03.0.7
RM -15 Residential, Multiple -Family - 15 District ........
3.01.03.P.7
RMH-5 Residential, Mobile Home - 5 District ............
3.01.03.K.6
RS -2 Residential, Single -Family - 2 District ...............
3.01.03.H.6
RS -3 Residential, Single -Family - 3 District ...............
3.01.03.1.6
RS -4 Residential, Single -Family - 4 District ...............
3.01.03.J.6
RVP Recreational Vehicle Park District ....................
3.01.03.Z.3
Standards for Review of Conditional Use Permits........
11.07.03
Consistency with Local Code and Comprehensive Plan
11.07.A
Effect on Adjacent Properties .............................
11.07.13
Environmental Impact .....................................
11.07.E
Fire Protection, Adequacy of ..............................
11.07.1)
Public Facilities, Adequacy of .............................
11.07.0
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Supplemental Review Information for Wireless
Telecommunications Tower Conditional Use
Applications ..........................................
7.10.23.Q
U Utilities District ............................................
3.01.03.W.7
Zoning Districts
Use Regulations, Zoning District
Administrative Use Regulations for Permitted and
Conditional Uses ....................................
3.01.02
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:41 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
CONDITIONAL USES (Cont'd.)
Generally ..................................................
3.01.01.13
CONDOMINIUMS
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Condominium Hotel Unit Uses ...........................
7.10.32
CONDUCT
Special Master Review Process
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution -
Special Master Review Process
Conduct of the Special Master Proceeding............
11.14.07
Standards of Conduct for Parties and Participants..
11.14.03
CONDUIT. See: PIPES AND CONDUIT
CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION
Coastal Construction Code
Requirements, Coastal Construction .....................
13.00.02.1)
CPUB Conservation - Public District .......................
3.01.03.HH
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements
Open Space Requirements
Purpose .................................................
7.04.02.A
Endangered or Threatened Species .........................
6.04.00 et seq.
See: ENDANGERED OR THREATENED SPECIES
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Environmental Zones
Dune Preservation Zone .................................
3.01.03.AA.4.a
Historic Preservation .........................................
4.11.00 et seq.
See: HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone
Intent........................................................
4.01.01
Landscaping...................................................
7.09.03 et seq.
See: LANDSCAPING
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Purpose......................................................
7.02.01
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Standards and Requirements
Clustering of Development ..............................
7.01.03.K
R/C Residential/Conservation District .....................
3.01.03.D
Sea Turtle Protection .........................................
6.04.02 et seq.
See: SEA TURTLE PROTECTION
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ...........................................
4.04.05.H
Vegetation Protection and Preservation ....................
6.00.00 et seq.
See: VEGETATION
Wetlands Protection
Criteria for Granting Permits .............................
6.02.03.D
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCiA2 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
CONSTRUCTION
Administration and Enforcement
Authorization by a Development Permit Required Prior
to Undertaking Any Development Activity
Exceptions to Requirement of a Final Development
Order .................................................
11.01.03
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
General Provisions .......................................
7.10.18.1)
Temporary Use and Structure ..........................
7.10.18.E
Coastal Construction Code ...................................
13.00.02 et seq.
See: COASTAL CONSTRUCTION CODE
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Restrictions on Heavy Vehicles in Residential Districts
Delivery and Construction Vehicles; Emergency
Repairs ...............................................
7.10.14.13
Development Permits
Driveway Permits
Curb Cuts, Driveways and Culverts Constructed
Without Driveway Permit ..........................
11.05.03.F
Floodplain Management .....................................
6.05.01 et seq.
See: FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
IH Industrial, Heavy District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.U.2
IL Industrial, Light District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.T.2
Public Facilities
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
tion
Appropriation of Fair -Share Revenues ................
5.07.00.G
Signs and Billboards
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs
Authorized Temporary Signs
Construction Project Signs ...........................
9.01.02.B
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Expiration of Final Site Plan Approval
Abandonment of Construction .......................
11.02.06.0
Subdivisions...................................................
11.03.01 et seq.
See: SUBDIVISIONS
Temporary Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Temporary Uses Permitted ...................
8.02.02
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Building Codes/Safety Standards ......................
7.10.23.E
Transportation Systems
Driveways
Driveway Requirements .................................
7.05.06.0
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCiA3 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
CONTAINERS. See: BINS, CONTAINERS AND OTHER
RECEPTACLES
CONTAMINANTS AND POLLUTANTS
Mining
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
Permit...................................................
Stormwater Management
Intent and Purpose .........................................
Wellfield Protection
Generally
Legislative Intent ........................................
CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS
Development Agreements ....................................
See: DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Relief
Provision of Reserved Parking Areas ...............
Guarantees and Sureties
Generally
Improvement Agreement Required ....................
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Parking and Other Vehicular Use Area Interior
Landscaping
Reserved Parking Area Landscape Requirements
(7.06.02 (B) (4)) ...................................
Public Facilities
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
tion
Proportionate Fair -Share Agreements .................
Review of Development Orders
Effect of a Development Agreement in Conjunction
with a Certificate of Capacity .....................
Special Master Review Process
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution -
Special Master Review Process
Conduct of the Special Master Proceeding
Settlement..............................................
Special Master
Agreements with the Special Master ...............
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone........................................................
See: ST. LUCIE COUNTY RURAL LAND STEWARD-
SHIP AREA OVERLAY ZONE
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
General Requirements for the Location of New Wire-
less Telecommunications Towers on County
Section
6.06.01
7.07.01
6.03.01.A
11.08.00 et seq.
7.06.03.E
11.04.01.13
7.09.04.C.7
5.07.00.F
5.08.05
11.14.07.H
11.14.06.0
4.05.07 et seq.
Property .............................................. 7.10.23.I
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCiA4 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS (Cont'd.)
Utilities
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit
On -Site Sewage Disposal System, Requirement for. 7.08.04.B
Wellfield Protection
Special Exemptions
Information and fee required ........................... 6.03.06.B
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Appeals
Generally
Authority ..................................................
11.11.01.13
Procedure, Appeals
County Administrator, Appeals of Decisions of ......
11.11.02.E
Development Agreements
Procedure for Review of a Development Agreement
County Administrator, Review and Recommendation
by......................................................
11.08.02.1)
Submission of Application ..............................
11.08.02.A
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Community Residential Homes ...........................
7.10.07
Newsracks.....................................................
7.10.26 et seq.
See: NEWSRACKS
Office of the County Administrator .........................
12.05.00
Jurisdiction, Authority, and Duties ......................
12.05.01
Special Master Review Process
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution -
Special Master Review Process
Conduct of the Special Master Proceeding
Filing of Response .....................................
11.14.07.13
Standard Housing Code
Administration ..............................................
13.08.02
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Inspections, Reports, Fees, and Monitoring...........
7.10.23.T
Wellfield Protection
Generally
Administrative Regulations .............................
6.03.01.0
COUNTY ATTORNEY
Development Agreements
Execution of Development Agreement ................... 11.08.04
Guarantees and Sureties
Generally
Amount and Type of Security .......................... 11.04.01.0
Subdivisions
Platting, Procedure for
Final Record Plat, Review of
Covenants, Restrictions, Reservations .............. 11.03.03.F
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCiA5 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
CPUB CONSERVATION - PUBLIC DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................ 3.01.03.1111.8
Conditional Uses .............................................. 3.01.03.1111.7
Dimensional Regulations ..................................... 3.01.03.HH.4
Landscaping Requirements .................................. 3.01.03.1111.6
Lot Size Requirements ....................................... 3.01.03.HH.3
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCiA6 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
COUNTY ATTORNEY (Cont'd.)
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ...........................................
4.04.05.11
COUNTY ENGINEER
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance standards
Requirement for all Weather Surface for all
Required Off -Street Parking and Vehicular
Use Areas ..........................................
7.06.02.B.3.A
Development Permits .........................................
11.05.03 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT PERMITS
Guarantees and Sureties
Generally
Completion of Improvements ...........................
11.04.01.1)
Mining
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
Permit ...................................................
6.06.0 1
Office of the County Engineer ...............................
12.08.00
Jurisdiction, Authority, and Duties ......................
12.08.01
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
Public Hearing of Petitions for Abandonment of County
Rights -of -Way and Public Easements for Drainage
of County Rights -of -Way
Posting of Notice of Public Hearing ...................
11.10.07.1)
Stormwater Management
Failure to Maintain Stormwater Management Systems
7.07.08
Subdivisions
Platting, Procedure for
Construction Plans and Preliminary Record Plats,
Review of
Filing with County Engineer .........................
11.03.02.A
Procedures for Review by the County Engineer ...
11.03.02.0
Transportation Systems ......................................
7.05.02 et seq.
See: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Variances
Driveway Regulations, Administrative Variances from
Requirements of .......................................
10.01.21
Stormwater Management, Administrative Variances
from Requirements of
Application Procedures ..................................
10.01.17.A
CPUB CONSERVATION - PUBLIC DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................ 3.01.03.1111.8
Conditional Uses .............................................. 3.01.03.1111.7
Dimensional Regulations ..................................... 3.01.03.HH.4
Landscaping Requirements .................................. 3.01.03.1111.6
Lot Size Requirements ....................................... 3.01.03.HH.3
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCiA6 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
CREDITS AND REFUNDS
Newsracks
Installation and Maintenance ............................. 7.10.26.G
Public Facilities
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
tion
Impact Fee Credit for Proportionate Fair -Share Mitiga-
tion.................................................... 5.07.00.E
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone........................................................ 4.05.05 et seq.
See: ST. LUCIE COUNTY RURAL LAND STEWARD-
SHIP AREA OVERLAY ZONE
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)...... 4.04.05 et seq.
See: TVC—OVERLAY ZONE (TOWNS, VILLAGES,
COUNTRYSIDE)
CULTURE OR HERITAGE
CPUB Conservation - Public District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.HH.2
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SSA Designation
Credit Generation, SSA - Stewardship Credit System
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCiA7 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
CPUB CONSERVATION - PUBLIC DISTRICT (Cont'd.)
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...........
3.01.03.HH.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.HH.2
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.HH.1
CR COMMERCIAL RESORT DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.II.8
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.II.7
Landscaping Requirements ..................................
3.01.03.II.5
Buffering and Screening ...................................
3.01.03.II.a
Responsive to Local Context and Character ............
3.01.03.II.b
Use of Native and Drought Resistant Plants ...........
3.01.03.II.c
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...........
3.01.03.II.4
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.II.2
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.II.1
Sign Requirements ............................................
3.01.03.II.6
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
Use Standards .................................................
3.01.03.II.3
Architectural Design Standards ..........................
3.01.03.II.3.h
Density.......................................................
3.01.03.II.3.f
Dimensional Requirements ................................
3.01.03.II.3.e
Land Use Compatibility ...................................
3.01.03.II.3.a
Minimum Parcel Size ......................................
3.01.03.II.3.b
Requirement for Amenities ................................
3.01.03.II.3.g
Requirement for Site Plan Review/Approval............
3.01.03.II.3.d
Requirement for Unified Property Control ..............
3.01.03.II.3.c
CREDITS AND REFUNDS
Newsracks
Installation and Maintenance ............................. 7.10.26.G
Public Facilities
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
tion
Impact Fee Credit for Proportionate Fair -Share Mitiga-
tion.................................................... 5.07.00.E
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone........................................................ 4.05.05 et seq.
See: ST. LUCIE COUNTY RURAL LAND STEWARD-
SHIP AREA OVERLAY ZONE
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)...... 4.04.05 et seq.
See: TVC—OVERLAY ZONE (TOWNS, VILLAGES,
COUNTRYSIDE)
CULTURE OR HERITAGE
CPUB Conservation - Public District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.HH.2
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SSA Designation
Credit Generation, SSA - Stewardship Credit System
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCiA7 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
CULTURE OR HERITAGE (Cont'd.)
Cultural Heritage Incentive Credits ................ 4.05.07.B.3
CULVERTS. See: BRIDGES AND CULVERTS
CURBS AND GUTTERS
Development Permits
Driveway Permits
Curb Cuts, Driveways and Culverts Constructed
Without Driveway Permit .......................... 11.05.03.F
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Parking and Other Vehicular Use Area Interior
Landscaping
Curbing ................................................. 7.09.04.C.5
Transportation Systems
Driveways
Requirements Generally ................................ 7.05.06.A
E
DAMAGE, DEFACEMENT, DESTRUCTION OR INJURY
Building Code
Bond Required, Moving of Buildings .....................
13.00.0l.0
Coastal Area Protection
Beach and Dune Protection
Erosion Control
Replacement of Damaged Structure ................
6.02.0l.E.6.b
Environmentally Sensitive Resources and Habitats
Alteration, Degradation or Destruction Criteria.....
6.02.0l.C.1
Coastal Construction Code
Purpose......................................................
13.00.02.B
Development Permits
Airport Zone Permits
Nonconforming Uses Abandoned or Destroyed.......
11.05.08.F
Floodplain Management .....................................
6.05.01 et seq.
See: FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
Newsracks
Installation and Maintenance .............................
7.10.26.G
Nonconformities
Structures, Nonconforming
Termination Upon Damage or Destruction ...........
10.00.03.E
Uses, Nonconforming
Termination
Damage or Destruction ...............................
10.00.02.F.2
Signs and Billboards
Nonconforming Signs
Natural Damage .........................................
9.05.00.1)
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:48
Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
DAY CARE CENTERS
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.Q.7
CO Commercial, Office District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.R.7
RF Religious Facilities District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.Y.7
DECISION MAKING AND ADMINISTRATIVE BODIES
Board of Adjustment ..........................................
Section
DAMAGE, DEFACEMENT, DESTRUCTION OR INJURY
(Cont'd.)
12.00.00
Towers and Antennas
12.05.00
Telecommunications Tower Siting
12.05.01
General Requirements for the Location of New Wire-
12.08.00
less Telecommunications Towers on County
12.08.01
Property ..............................................
7.10.23.I
Purpose....................................................
7.10.23.A
Variances
Special Provisions where Variance is Sought to Require-
12.01.00
ments of Flood Damage Prevention
12.01.01
General Standards for Issuance ........................
10.01.25.0
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
12.06.00
Permit
12.06.01
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
12.02.00 et seq.
tion of an Approved Notice of Vegetation
Removal ............................................
6.00.05.0
Exemptions ...............................................
6.00.04
DAY CARE CENTERS
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.Q.7
CO Commercial, Office District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.R.7
RF Religious Facilities District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.Y.7
DECISION MAKING AND ADMINISTRATIVE BODIES
Board of Adjustment ..........................................
12.04.00 et seq.
See: BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
Board of County Commissioners ............................
12.00.00
County Administrator, Office of the ........................
12.05.00
Jurisdiction, Authority, and Duties ......................
12.05.01
County Engineer, Office of the ..............................
12.08.00
Jurisdiction, Authority, and Duties ......................
12.08.01
Development Review Committee ............................
12.09.00 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE
Environmental Control Board; Environmental Officer;
Environmental Control Hearing Board ...............
12.01.00
Regulations and Requirements ...........................
12.01.01
Local Planning Agency .......................................
12.03.00 et seq.
See: LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY
Planning and Development Services Director, Office of
the.........................................................
12.06.00
Jurisdiction, Authority, and Duties ......................
12.06.01
Planning and Zoning Commission ..........................
12.02.00 et seq.
See: PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
Public Works Director, Office of the ........................
12.07.00
Jurisdiction, Authority, and Duties ......................
12.07.01
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCiA9 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
DECISIONS, FINDINGS AND REVIEWS
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
General Provisions .......................................
7.10.18.1)
Amendments
Amendments to the Code and Official Zoning Atlas
Procedures
Review by Growth Management Director ..........
11.06.04.E
Standards of Review .....................................
11.06.03
Appeals
Procedure, Appeals
Board of Adjustment, Environmental Control Board,
or the Board of County Commissioners, Appeals
of Decisions of the ...................................
11.11.02.F
County Administrator, Appeals of Decisions of ......
11.11.02.E
Coastal Area Protection
Overall Review and Consistency .........................
6.02.01.13
Conditional Uses
Standards for Review of Conditional Use Permits .....
11.07.03
CR Commercial Resort District
Use Standards
Requirement for Site Plan Review/Approval .........
3.01.03.II.3.d
Development Agreements
Periodic Review .............................................
11.08.08
Procedure for Review of a Development Agreement ...
11.08.02
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Community Architectural Standards
Site Plan Submission Standards .......................
7.10.24.B
Community Residential Homes ...........................
7.10.07
Development Permits .........................................
11.05.02 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT PERMITS
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection
Determination of Sufficiency .........................
6.04.01.G
Procedure for Review of Applications Pertaining to
Inventory Properties .............................
6.04.01.E
Hearings
Hearing Procedures
Action by Decision -Making Body .......................
11.00.04.E
Appeals from Board of County Commissioners Deci-
sions ..................................................
11.00.04.11
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution - Special
Master Review Process ..................................
11.14.00 et seq.
See: SPECIAL MASTER REVIEW PROCESS
Public Facilities ...............................................
5.00.02 et seq.
See: PUBLIC FACILITIES
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for ........................
11.02.00 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:50 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
DECISIONS, FINDINGS AND REVIEWS (Cont'd.)
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
Review of Petition .......................................... 11.10.06
Sea Turtle Protection
Management Coordination ................................ 6.04.02.B
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Designation of Minor Site Plan, Major Site Plan, or
Planned Development Site Plan
Developments of Regional Impact
Application for a binding letter of determination
from Department of Community Affairs
required .........................................
11.02.02.E.1
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Stewardship Receiving Area (SRA) Review and
Approval Processes .................................
4.05.08.D
SSA Designation
Review Process, SSA .....................................
4.05.07.1)
Subdivisions...................................................
11.03.02 et seq.
See: SUBDIVISIONS
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Supplemental Review Information for Wireless
Telecommunications Tower Conditional Use
Applications ..........................................
7.10.23.Q
Transportation Systems ......................................
7.05.03 et seq.
See: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights; findings .............
4.04.05.13
Variances
Action of Board of Adjustment ............................
10.01.05
Procedures for Application
Review of the Application ...............................
10.01.04.0
Vested Rights
Provisions re
Determination of Vested Rights ........................
11.09.03.13
Wellfield Protection
Special Exemptions
Review by the Growth Management Director ........
6.03.06.0
Zoning Districts
Use Regulations, Zoning District
Administrative Use Regulations for Permitted and
Conditional Uses ....................................
3.01.02
DECKS. See: PORCHES AND DECKS
DEEDS. See: TITLES AND DEEDS
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:51 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
DEFACEMENT. See: DAMAGE, DEFACEMENT,
DESTRUCTION OR INJURY
DEMOLITIONS
Historic Preservation ......................................... 4.11.10
Public Facilities
Demolition or Termination of Existing Land Use ...... 5.05.00
DENSITY
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District
Purpose......................................................
3.01.03.E.1
Conditional Uses
Conditions on Conditional Use Permits
Reduction in Maximum Residential Density .........
11.07.04.1)
CR Commercial Resort District
Use Standards ..............................................
3.01.03.II.3.f
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements
Requirements
Density, Height and Lot Coverage - General.......
7.04.01.A
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Residential Densities .......................................
3.01.03.AA.7
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:52 Adopted May 19, 2009
[The next page is LDCi:551
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT
STANDARDS (Cont'd.)
Buildings and Building Regulations
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements.
See herein that subject
Community Architectural Standards
General ....................................................
7.10.24.A
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards .................................
7.06.02
Purpose and Applicability ...............................
7.06.01
Businesses and Business Regulations
Distance Requirements for Alcoholic Beverages........
7.10.11
Waiver Provision for Business Selling or Transfer-
ring Alcoholic Beverages as an Accessory to a
Principal Use ........................................
7.10.11.1)
Waiver Provision for Business Selling or Transfer-
ring Alcoholic Beverages as an Accessory to an
Eating Place .........................................
7.10.11.0
Outdoor Displays in Commercial Zoning Districts .....
7.10.02
Restrictions on Heavy Vehicles in Residential Districts
Commercial Vehicles and Semitrailers Prohibited or
Restricted in Residential Districts ................
7.10.14.A
Car Washes, Self -Service .....................................
7.10.22
Commercial Zoning Districts
Membership Organizations; Enclosed Assembly Areas
7.10.31
Community Architectural Standards .......................
7.10.24
Architectural Style .........................................
7.10.24.F
Building Design Standards ................................
7.10.24.1)
General ......................................................
7.10.24.A
Interim Design Standards .................................
7.10.24.0
Rehabilitated or Remodeled Structures .................
7.10.24.E
Signs and Lighting Standards ............................
7.10.24.G
Site Plan Submission Standards .........................
7.10.24.13
Community Residential Homes .............................
7.10.07
Composting, Commercial Facilities .........................
7.10.34.A et seq.
See: COMPOSTING
Condominium Hotel Unit Uses ..............................
7.10.32
Declaration of Condominium ..............................
7.10.32.A
Length of Stay ..............................................
7.10.32.E
Management of Condominium Hotel .....................
7.10.32.0
Owner's Association ........................................
7.10.32.13
Reporting and Inspection ..................................
7.10.32.1)
Distance Requirements for Alcoholic Beverages ..........
7.10.11
Distance Restrictions for Persons Selling or Transfer-
ring Alcoholic Beverages ..............................
7.10.11.A
Exception ....................................................
7.10.11.E
Measurement ................................................
7.10.11.13
Waiver Provision for Business Selling or Transferring
Alcoholic Beverages as an Accessory to a Principal
Use......................................................
7.10.11.1)
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:59 Adopted
May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT
STANDARDS (Cont'd.)
Waiver Provision for Business Selling or Transferring
Alcoholic Beverages as an Accessory to an Eating
Place....................................................
7.10.11.0
Emergencies
Emergency Services Communications ...................
7.10.25
Restrictions on Heavy Vehicles in Residential Districts
Delivery and Construction Vehicles; Emergency
Repairs ...............................................
7.10.14.13
Security Gatehouse and Access Control Devices .......
7.10.15
Emergency Services Communications ......................
7.10.25
General......................................................
7.10.25.13
Non -Compliance ............................................
7.10.25.F
Owner Responsibility ......................................
7.10.25.0
Purpose......................................................
7.10.25.A
Testing.......................................................
7.10.25.1)
Violation.....................................................
7.10.25.E
Farming, Farms
Agricultural Labor Housing ...............................
7.10.08
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements
Requirements
Non -Residential Buildings on Farms ...............
7.04.01.E
Outdoor Displays in Commercial Zoning Districts
Exceptions ................................................
7.10.02.B
Fences, Hedges, Walls and Other Enclosures
Car Washes, Self -Service ..................................
7.10.22
Scrap, Waste and Recycling Operations .................
7.10.12
Sewage and Septage Treatment Facilities in Agricultural
Zoning Districts ........................................
7.10.13
Food and Food Services
Distance Requirements for Alcoholic Beverages........
7.10.11
Mobile Food Vendors .......................................
7.10.01
Outdoor Displays in Commercial Zoning Districts
Exceptions ................................................
7.10.02.13
General Provisions ............................................
7.00.00
Purpose......................................................
7.00.01
Growth Management Director
Community Residential Homes ...........................
7.10.07
Guest Homes ................................................
7.10.04
Mobile Food Vendors .......................................
7.10.01
GuestHomes ..................................................
7.10.04
Hotels and Motels
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements
Building Spacing Formula
Applicability ............................................
7.04.03.13
Condominium Hotel Unit Uses ...........................
7.10.32
Distance Requirements for Alcoholic Beverages
Exception ..................................................
7.10.11.E
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:60 Adopted
May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT
STANDARDS (Cont'd.)
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards .................................
7.06.02
Ingress, Egress
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards .................................
7.06.02
Security Gatehouse and Access Control Devices .......
7.10.15
Sewage and Septage Treatment Facilities in Agricultural
Zoning Districts ........................................
7.10.13
Landscaping and Screening .................................
7.09.00 et seq.
See: LANDSCAPING
Loading, Unloading
Off -Street Parking and Loading. See herein that subject
Restrictions on Heavy Vehicles in Residential Districts
Delivery and Construction Vehicles; Emergency
Repairs ...............................................
7.10.14.13
Marinas........................................................
7.10.09
Membership Organizations; Enclosed Assembly Areas ..
7.10.31
Mobile Food Vendors ..........................................
7.10.01
Mobile Home Parks ...........................................
7.10.17 et seq.
See: MOBILE HOMES AND MOBILE HOME PARKS
Mobile Homes as Accessory Uses ...........................
7.10.05
Additional Criteria for Issuance ..........................
7.10.05.13
Requirement for Agricultural Property Assessment
Designation .............................................
7.10.05.A
Newsracks on Public Rights -of -Way ........................
7.10.26 et seq.
See: NEWSRACKS
Off -Road Vehicle Parks .......................................
7.10.21
Generally ....................................................
7.10.21.B
Intent........................................................
7.10.21.A
Off -Street Parking and Loading .............................
7.06.00
Performance Standards ....................................
7.06.02
Design Standards ........................................
7.06.02.13
ADA Accessibility ......................................
7.06.02.B.4
Aisle Width, Ingress and Egress ....................
7.06.02.B.2
Landscaping ............................................
7.06.02.B.5
Material .................................................
7.06.02.B.3
Off -Street Loading Space Design ....................
7.06.02.B.9
Stall Size ...............................................
7.06.02.13.1
Vehicle Queuing .......................................
7.06.02.B.7
Vehicle Storage ........................................
7.06.02.B.8
Wayfinding.............................................
7.06.02.B.6
Number of Off -Street Parking and Loading Spaces
Required ..............................................
7.06.02.A
Handicapped Parking .................................
7.06.02.A.2
Off -Street Loading .....................................
7.06.02.A.3
Off -Street Parking per Use ...........................
7.06.02.A.1
Purpose and Applicability .................................
7.06.01
Applicability ..............................................
7.06.01.13
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:61 Adopted
May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:62 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT
STANDARDS (Cont'd.)
Purpose....................................................
7.06.01.A
Relief.........................................................
7.06.03
Administrative Relief ....................................
7.06.03.A
Combined Properties Used for Off -Street Parking...
7.06.03.0
Context Sensitive Parking ..............................
7.06.03.13
Provision of Reserved Parking Areas ..................
7.06.03.E
Shared Off -Street Parking Areas ......................
7.06.03.1)
Outdoor Displays in Commercial Zoning Districts .......
7.10.02
Exceptions ...................................................
7.10.02.13
General ......................................................
7.10.02.A
Outdoor Shooting Ranges ....................................
7.10.19
Pain Management Clinics ....................................
7.10.29
Distance Requirements ....................................
7.10.29.13
Generally....................................................
7.10.29.A
Other Regulations ..........................................
7.10.29.0
Parking and Parking Lots
Off -Street Parking and Loading. See herein that subject
Restrictions on Heavy Vehicles in Residential Districts
Extension of Parking Restrictions .....................
7.10.14.1)
Parks and Recreation
Adult Establishments ......................................
7.10.10
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements
Open Space Requirements
General Guidelines ....................................
7.04.02.13
Distance Requirements for Alcoholic Beverages
Distance Restrictions for Persons Selling or Transfer-
ring Alcoholic Beverages ...........................
7.10.11.A
Off -Road Vehicle Parks ....................................
7.10.21
Outdoor Shooting Ranges .................................
7.10.19
Paving or Surfacing
Off -Street Parking and Loading. See herein that subject
Planned Mixed Use Development ...........................
7.03.00 et seq.
See: PMUD PLANNED MIXED USE DEVELOP-
MENT DISTRICT
Planned Non-residential Development .....................
7.02.00 et seq.
See: PNRD PLANNED NONRESIDENTIAL DEVELOP-
MENT DISTRICT
Planned Unit Development ..................................
7.01.00 et seq.
See: PUD PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:62 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
DEVELOPMENT PERMITS (Cont'd.)
Class A Mobile Home Permits ...............................
11.05.02
Application for Permit .....................................
11.05.02.A
Contents, Application ......................................
11.05.02.13
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home Permit
Applications on Properties Zoned AG -1, AR -1, RIC,
RE -1, RE -2, RS -2, RS -3, RS -4, RMH-5, RM -5,
RM -7, RM -9, RM -11 and RM -15 .....................
11.05.02.1)
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home Permit
Applications on Properties Zoned AG -5 and AG -2.5
11.05.02.0
Standards for Review ......................................
11.05.02.E
County Engineer
Driveway Permits. See herein that subject
Mining Permits
Application for Mining Permit .........................
11.05.11.0
Suspension of Mining Permit ...........................
11.05.11.G
Stormwater Permits
Application for Permit ...................................
11.05.07.A
Decisions, Findings and Reviews
Airport Zone Permits
Procedure for Review of Airport Zone Permits .......
11.05.08.0
Class A Mobile Home Permits
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home
Permit Applications on Properties Zoned AG -1,
AR -1, R/C, RE -1, RE -2, RS -2, RS -3, RS -4, RMH-5,
RM -5, RM -7, RM -9, RM -11 and RM -15 ..........
11.05.02.1)
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home
Permit Applications on Properties Zoned AG -5
andAG -2.5 ...........................................
11.05.02.0
Standards for Review ....................................
11.05.02.E
Driveway Permits
Procedure for Review of Driveway Permit Applica-
tions..................................................
11.05.03.0
Stormwater Permits
Procedure for Review of Stormwater Management
Permit Applications .................................
11.05.07.0
Vegetation Removal Permits
Review of Applications for Vegetation Removal Permits
11.05.06.0
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permits
Procedure for Review of Wastewater and Sewage
Disposal Compliance ................................
11.05.09.0
Wetlands Permits
Procedure for Review of Wetland Permit Application
11.05.12.0
Driveway Permits .............................................
11.05.03
Appeals from Permit Denial ..............................
11.05.03.1)
Application for Permit .....................................
11.05.03.A
Contents, Application ......................................
11.05.03.B
County Engineer
Appeals from Permit Denial ............................
11.05.03.1)
Application for Permit ...................................
11.05.03.A
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:67 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:68 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
DEVELOPMENT PERMITS (Cont'd.)
Curb Cuts, Driveways and Culverts Constructed
Without Driveway Permit ..........................
11.05.03.F
Issuance of Driveway Permit ...........................
11.05.03.E
Curb Cuts, Driveways and Culverts Constructed Without
Driveway Permit .......................................
11.05.03.F
Issuance of Driveway Permit ..............................
11.05.03.E
Procedure for Review of Driveway Permit Applications
11.05.03.0
General.........................................................
11.05.00.A
Growth Management Director
Airport Zone Permits
Application for Permits ..................................
11.05.08.A
Driveway Permits
Curb Cuts, Driveways and Culverts Constructed
Without Driveway Permit ..........................
11.05.03.F
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permits
Application for Permit ...................................
11.05.09.A
Wetlands Permits
Application for Permit ...................................
11.05.12.A
Identification
Airport Zone Permits
Conditions on Permit Approval ........................
11.05.08.G
Contents, Application ....................................
11.05.08.13
Class A Mobile Home Permits
Contents, Application ....................................
11.05.02.13
Driveway Permits
Contents, Application ....................................
11.05.03.13
Stormwater Permits
Contents, Application ....................................
11.05.07.13
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permits
Contents, Application ....................................
11.05.09.13
Wetlands Permits
Contents, Application ....................................
11.05.12.13
Local Permit not Exclusive ..................................
11.05.13
Mining Permits ................................................
11.05.11
Application for Mining Permit ............................
11.05.11.0
Classes of Permit; Time Limits ...........................
11.05.11.13
Criteria for Issuing Mining Permit .......................
11.05.11.E
Modification or Extension of Mining Permit............
11.05ALF
Procedure for Obtaining Mining Permit .................
11.05.11.1)
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:68 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
DUNES
Coastal Area Protection ...................................... 6.02.01 et seq.
See: COASTAL AREA PROTECTION
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Environmental Zones
Dune Preservation Zone ................................. 3.01.03.AA.4.a
DUST, FUMES, ODORS OR SMOKE
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
General Provisions ....................................... 7.10.18.1)
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Road Vehicle Parks
Generally .................................................. 7.10.21.13
Home Occupations
Use Limitations for Home Occupations .................. 8.01.03
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:73 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
DRAINAGE, DRAINS (Cont'd.)
Public Facilities
Level of Service Standards
Establishment of Level of Service Standards ........
5.06.01.13
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
Public Hearing of Petitions for Abandonment of County
Rights -of -Way and Public Easements for Drainage
of County Rights -of -Way ..............................
11.10.07
Stormwater Management
Exemptions from Stormwater Permits ...................
7.07.05
Local Jurisdictional Permit Requirements
Local Government Criteria .............................
7.07.07.13
Transportation Systems ......................................
7.05.02 et seq.
See: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Utilities.........................................................
7.08.02 et seq.
See: UTILITIES
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Exemptions ...............................................
6.00.04
DRIVEWAYS
Development Permits
Driveway Permits ..........................................
11.05.03
River Park—Community Overlay Zone
Performance Standards
Access Management .....................................
4.02.04.0
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report..
7.10.23.F
Transportation Systems ......................................
7.05.06
Variances
Driveway Regulations, Administrative Variances from
Requirements of .......................................
10.01.21
DUNES
Coastal Area Protection ...................................... 6.02.01 et seq.
See: COASTAL AREA PROTECTION
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Environmental Zones
Dune Preservation Zone ................................. 3.01.03.AA.4.a
DUST, FUMES, ODORS OR SMOKE
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
General Provisions ....................................... 7.10.18.1)
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Road Vehicle Parks
Generally .................................................. 7.10.21.13
Home Occupations
Use Limitations for Home Occupations .................. 8.01.03
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:73 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
DUST, FUMES, ODORS OR SMOKE (Cont'd.)
Signs and Billboards
Prohibited Signs ............................................ 9.03.00
DUTIES. See: POWERS, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILI-
TIES
E
EASEMENTS
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
Public Hearing of Petitions for Abandonment of County
Rights -of -Way and Public Easements for Drainage
of County Rights -of -Way ..............................
11.10.07
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SSA Designation
Application Package, SSA
Stewardship Easement Agreement ..................
4.05.07.C.7
Subdivisions
Platting, Procedure for
Final Record Plat, Review of
Covenants, Restrictions, Reservations ..............
11.03.03.F
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report..
7.10.23.F
Transportation Systems
Rights -of -Way Determinations and Dedications,
Improvements
Dedications to Public ....................................
7.05.03.E
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ...........................................
4.04.05.H
Utilities
Utility and Drainage Easements in Subdivisions ......
7.08.02
Variances
Minimum Yard Setback Standards, Administrative
Variances for the Required
For Mobile Home Parks
General Standards for Issuance .....................
10.01.14.B.2
For Recreational Vehicle Parks
General Standards for Issuance .....................
10.01.14.A.2
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Exemptions...............................................
6.00.04
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
CG Commercial, General District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.5.2
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:74 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
ELECTRIC, ELECTRICITY
Section
EDUCATION AND TRAINING (Cont'd.)
I Institutional District
3.01.03.W.7
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.X.7
IL Industrial, Light District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.T.2
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone .............
4.03.00 et seq.
See: RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PARK—
OVERLAY ZONE
RF Religious Facilities District
6.02.01.I
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.Y.7
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ...........................................
4.04.05.11
EGRESS. See: INGRESS, EGRESS
ELECTIONS
7.10.26.I
Board of Adjustment
Development Code
Chairman and Vice -Chairman ............................
12.04.03
Quorum and Necessary Vote ..............................
12.04.06
Conditional Uses
General Provisions
Requirement for Four -Fifths Vote when Protest is
Filed ..................................................
11.07.0l.0
Planning and Zoning Commission
Chairman and Vice -Chairman ............................
12.02.03
Quorum and Necessary Vote ..............................
12.02.06
Signs and Billboards
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs
Authorized Temporary Signs
Political Signs ..........................................
9.01.02.E
ELECTRIC, ELECTRICITY
U Utilities District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.W.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.W.2
Utilities
Requirements for all Developments ......................
7.08.01
ELEVATION. See: HEIGHT
EMERGENCIES
Coastal Area Protection
Use of Public Funds in Coastal High Hazard Area ....
6.02.01.I
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.00.01 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
Emergency Shelter .........................................
7.10.17.N
Newsracks
Emergency Removal ........................................
7.10.26.I
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:75 Adopted
May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
EMINENT DOMAIN WAIVER
Applicability................................................... 10.03.00.A
Authority....................................................... 10.03.00.B
Procedure to Apply For ....................................... 10.03.00.0
Standards of Issuance of ..................................... 10.03.00.1)
Status of Parcels During or After Acquisition by Eminent
Domain Action ............................................ 10.03.01
EMPLOYEES. See: OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
ENCLOSURES. See: FENCES, HEDGES, WALLS AND
OTHER ENCLOSURES
ENCROACHMENTS
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Parking and Other Vehicular Use Area Interior
Landscaping
Vehicle Encroachments into Landscaped Areas ... 7.09.04.C.2
Variances
Minimum Yard Setback Standards, Administrative
Variances for the Required
For Mobile Home Parks
General Standards for Issuance ..................... 10.01.14.13.2
For Recreational Vehicle Parks
General Standards for Issuance ..................... 10.01.14.A.2
ENDANGERED OR THREATENED SPECIES
Coastal Area Protection
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:76 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
EMERGENCIES (Cont'd.)
Purpose and Criteria .......................................
7.10.26.A
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading
On Street Parking .....................................
7.02.03.E.3
Public Facilities
Development Not Subject to The Requirements of
Chapter V, Adequate Public Facilities
Exemptions ...............................................
5.03.01
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading
On Street Parking .....................................
7.01.03.F.3
Variances
Special Provisions where Variance is Sought to Require-
ments of Flood Damage Prevention
General Standards for Issuance ........................
10.01.25.0
Wellfield Protection
Special Exemptions
Review by the Growth Management Director ........
6.03.06.0
EMINENT DOMAIN WAIVER
Applicability................................................... 10.03.00.A
Authority....................................................... 10.03.00.B
Procedure to Apply For ....................................... 10.03.00.0
Standards of Issuance of ..................................... 10.03.00.1)
Status of Parcels During or After Acquisition by Eminent
Domain Action ............................................ 10.03.01
EMPLOYEES. See: OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
ENCLOSURES. See: FENCES, HEDGES, WALLS AND
OTHER ENCLOSURES
ENCROACHMENTS
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Parking and Other Vehicular Use Area Interior
Landscaping
Vehicle Encroachments into Landscaped Areas ... 7.09.04.C.2
Variances
Minimum Yard Setback Standards, Administrative
Variances for the Required
For Mobile Home Parks
General Standards for Issuance ..................... 10.01.14.13.2
For Recreational Vehicle Parks
General Standards for Issuance ..................... 10.01.14.A.2
ENDANGERED OR THREATENED SPECIES
Coastal Area Protection
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:76 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
ENDANGERED OR THREATENED SPECIES (Cont'd.)
Environmentally Sensitive Resources and Habitats
Protected Species .........................................
6.02.01.C.3
Growth Management Director
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species. See
herein that subject
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species ............
6.04.00
Growth Management Director
Native Upland Habitat Protection. See within this
subheading that subject
Native Upland Habitat Protection .......................
6.04.01
Appeals ....................................................
6.04.01.I
Approval Criteria for Alteration or Development....
6.04.01.0
Determination of Sufficiency ...........................
6.04.01.G
Fees ........................................................
6.04.01.H
Generally ..................................................
6.04.01.B
Growth Management Director
Determination of Sufficiency .........................
6.04.01.G
Generally ...............................................
6.04.01.13
Procedure for Review of Applications Pertaining to
Inventory Properties .............................
6.04.01.E
Public Acquisition .....................................
6.04.0l.F
Procedure for Review of Applications Pertaining to
Inventory Properties ................................
6.04.01.E
Public Acquisition ........................................
6.04.01.F
Purpose ....................................................
6.04.01.A
Supplemental Information Required when Applica-
tions are Filed Pertaining to Properties Listed
on the Inventory ....................................
6.04.01.1)
Sea Turtle Protection ......................................
6.04.02 et seq.
See: SEA TURTLE PROTECTION
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Development in Areas Determined to Contain Scrub
Habitat, Special Landscaping Standards for ....
7.09.04.N
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ...........................................
4.04.05.H
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Relationship to Other Sections of this Code ..........
6.00.02
Wetlands Protection
Criteria for Granting Permits .............................
6.02.03.D
ENERGY
Solar Energy
Solar Generation Station ..................................
7.10.28.A
System .......................................................
7.10.28.B
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:77 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Environmental Control Provisions, Enforcement
Procedures for
Enforcement of Environmental Control Hearing
Board Orders and Injunction Relief............ 11.13.02.F
Generally
Environmental Control Hearing Board, Enforce-
ment by ............................................ 11.13.01.13
Development Permits
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permits
Appeal from Permit Denial ............................. 11.05.09.1)
Wetlands Permits
Appeal from Permit Denial ............................. 11.05.12.1)
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection
Appeals ................................................. 6.04.01.I
Regulations and Requirements .............................. 12.01.01
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:78 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
ENFORCEMENT. See: ADMINISTRATION AND
ENFORCEMENT
ENTERTAINMENT. See: AMUSEMENTS AND
ENTERTAINMENT
ENVIRONMENT
Code Enforcement
Enforcement of Code Provisions
Environmental Control Provisions, Enforcement
Procedures for .......................................
11.13.02
Conditional Uses
Standards for Review of Conditional Use Permits
Environmental Impact ..................................
11.07.E
Environmental Control Board
Regulations and Requirements ...........................
12.01.01
Environmentally Sensitive Lands ..........................
6.02.00 et seq.
See: ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE LANDS
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Environmental Zones ......................................
3.01.03.AA.4
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution - Special
Master Review Process ..................................
11.14.00 et seq.
See: SPECIAL MASTER REVIEW PROCESS
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Standards for Site Plan Review
Environmental Impact ................................
11.02.07.F
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD
Appeals.........................................................
11.11.01 et seq.
See: APPEALS
Code Enforcement
Enforcement of Code Provisions
Environmental Control Provisions, Enforcement
Procedures for
Enforcement of Environmental Control Hearing
Board Orders and Injunction Relief............ 11.13.02.F
Generally
Environmental Control Hearing Board, Enforce-
ment by ............................................ 11.13.01.13
Development Permits
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permits
Appeal from Permit Denial ............................. 11.05.09.1)
Wetlands Permits
Appeal from Permit Denial ............................. 11.05.12.1)
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection
Appeals ................................................. 6.04.01.I
Regulations and Requirements .............................. 12.01.01
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:78 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD (Cont'd.)
Standard Housing Code
Administration .............................................. 13.08.02
Enforcement ................................................. 13.08.03
Wellfield Protection
Enforcement and Penalties ................................ 6.03.07
ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE LANDS
Coastal Area Protection ......................................
6.02.01 et seq.
See: COASTAL AREA PROTECTION
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Environmentally Sensitive Areas ........................
3.01.03.AA.9
Mining
8.00.03
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
Permit ...................................................
6.06.01
Regulation of Motorized Vehicles in Environmentally
Sensitive Areas ...........................................
6.02.04
Riverine Shoreline Protection ...............................
6.02.02 et seq.
See: BEACHES AND SHORELINES
3.01.03.C.7
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Relationship to Other Sections of this Code ..........
6.00.02
Wetlands Protection ..........................................
6.02.03 et seq.
See: WETLANDS PROTECTION
EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Permitted Accessory Structures and Uses in
Residential, Agricultural, and Planned Unit
Development Districts ................................
8.00.03
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.A.7
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.B.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.C.7
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
Temporary Use and Structure ..........................
7.10.18.E
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Outdoor Displays in Commercial Zoning Districts
Exceptions ................................................
7.10.02.13
Restrictions on Heavy Vehicles in Residential Districts
Industrial Equipment Prohibited or Restricted in
Residential Districts ................................
7.10.14.0
Home Occupations
Use Limitations for Home Occupations ..................
8.01.03
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Back -Siphonage and Backflow Preventers, Landscap-
ing and Screening Requirements for .............
7.09.04.H
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:79 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY (Cont'd.)
Sea Turtle Protection
Mechanical Beach Cleaning, Standards for .............
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas .............
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
tion of an Approved Notice of Vegetation
Removal............................................
Wellfield Protection
Special Exemptions
Review by the Growth Management Director ........
EVACUATIONS
Coastal Area Protection
Use of Public Funds in Coastal High Hazard Area ....
EVIDENCE, TESTIMONY AND WITNESSES
Hearings
Hearing Procedures
Conduct of the Hearing
Rights of all Persons ..................................
Examination and Copying of Application and Other
Documents ...........................................
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
Application Procedures, Petition
Evidence of Taxes Paid ..................................
Title, Evidence of .........................................
EXCAVATIONS
Coastal Area Protection
Vegetation and Landscaping
Selective Clearing and Micro -Siting ...................
Mining
Excavation or Mining Resulting in the Creation of a
WaterBody .............................................
U Utilities District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
Utilities
Water and Sewer Service Systems
Sewage Systems ..........................................
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
tion of an Approved Notice of Vegetation
Section
6.04.02.N
7.10.23.P
6.00.05.0
6.03.06.0
6.02.01.I
11.00.04.C.1
11.00.04.13
11.10.05.G
11.10.05.F
6.02.01.D.1
6.06.03
3.01.03.W.7
7.08.03.13
Removal ............................................ 6.00.05.0
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:80 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
EXTERIOR PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE
Adopted......................................................... 13.09.01
Amendments/Deletions....................................... 13.09.02
Conflicting Provisions with Other Codes or Regulations
of the County ............................................. 13.09.03
F
FAMILY DAY CARE HOMES
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.A.2
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.B.2
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.C.2
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.E.2
I Institutional District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.X.2
PRW (Planned Retail/Workplace) District
Standards and Requirements
Permitted Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.GG.2.e
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Standards and Requirements
Permitted Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.EE.2.h
R/C Residential/Conservation District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.D.2
RE -1 Residential, Estate - 1 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.F.2
RE -2 Residential, Estate - 2 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.G.2
RM -5 Residential, Multiple -Family - 5 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.L.2
RM -7 Residential, Multiple -Family - 7 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.M.2
RM -9 Residential, Multiple -Family - 9 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.N.2
RM -11 Residential, Multiple -Family - 11 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.0.2
RM -15 Residential, Multiple -Family - 15 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.P.2
RMH-5 Residential, Mobile Home - 5 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.K.2
RS -2 Residential, Single -Family - 2 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.11.2
RS -3 Residential, Single -Family - 3 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.I.2
RS -4 Residential, Single -Family - 4 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.J.2
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:81 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HOMES
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.A.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.A.2
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.B.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.13.2
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.C.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.C.2
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.E.6
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.E.2
I Institutional District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.X.2
PRW (Planned Retail/Workplace) District
Standards and Requirements
Permitted Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.GG.2.e
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Standards and Requirements
Permitted Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.EE.2.h
R/C Residential/Conservation District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.D.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.D.2
RE -1 Residential, Estate - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.F.6
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.F.2
RE -2 Residential, Estate - 2 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.G.6
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.G.2
RM -5 Residential, Multiple -Family - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.L.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.L.2
RM -7 Residential, Multiple -Family - 7 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.M.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.M.2
RM -9 Residential, Multiple -Family - 9 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.N.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.N.2
RM -11 Residential, Multiple -Family - 11 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.0.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.0.2
RM -15 Residential, Multiple -Family - 15 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.P.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.P.2
RS -2 Residential, Single -Family - 2 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.H.6
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.H.2
RS -3 Residential, Single -Family - 3 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.0 1.03.1.6
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:82 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HOMES (Cont'd.)
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.I.2
RS -4 Residential, Single -Family - 4 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.J.6
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.J.2
FARMING, FARMS
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District ...............................
3.01.03.A
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District ...........................
3.01.03.13
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District ...............................
3.01.03.0
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District ................
3.01.03.E
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.04.01 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Use Limitations, Research and Education Park Overlay
Zone
Permitted Uses ...........................................
4.03.05.A
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Specific Standards, TVC
Agricultural Uses ........................................
4.04.04.0
U Utilities District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.W.2
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Building Codes/Safety Standards ......................
7.10.23.E
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Building Codes/Safety Standards ......................
7.10.23.E
FEES. See: CHARGES, FEES AND RATES
FENCES, HEDGES, WALLS AND OTHER ENCLOSURES
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Fences, Walls, and Hedges ................................
8.00.04
Swimming Pools
Fencing Required ........................................
8.00.05.A
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.10.12 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection
Approval Criteria for Alteration or Development.
6.04.01.0
Landscaping...................................................
7.09.03 et seq.
See: LANDSCAPING
Sea Turtle Protection .........................................
6.04.02 et seq.
See: SEA TURTLE PROTECTION
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:83 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
FINANCE
Coastal Area Protection
Use of Public Funds in Coastal High Hazard Area .... 6.02.01.I
Guarantees and Sureties ..................................... 11.04.00 et seq.
See: GUARANTEES AND SURETIES
Public Facilities
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
tion
Appropriation of Fair -Share Revenues ................ 5.07.00.G
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.Q.2
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards ................................. 7.06.02
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Standards and Requirements
Targeted Industries ...................................... 3.01.03.EE.2.r
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Use Limitations, Research and Education Park Overlay
Zone
Conditional Uses ......................................... 4.03.05.13
FINDINGS. See: DECISIONS, FINDINGS AND REVIEWS
FINES, FORFEITURES AND OTHER PENALTIES
Code Enforcement ............................................. 11.13.02 et seq.
See: CODE ENFORCEMENT
Development Permits
Vegetation Removal Permits
Violations ................................................. 11.05.06.F
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:84 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
FENCES, HEDGES, WALLS AND OTHER ENCLOSURES
(Cont'd.)
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Signs Other Than Billboards
Mansard and Marquee Signs ........................
9.02.01.13
Wall Signs ..............................................
9.02.01.A
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
General ....................................................
7.10.23.0
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
tion of an Approved Notice of Vegetation
Removal ............................................
6.00.05.0
FINANCE
Coastal Area Protection
Use of Public Funds in Coastal High Hazard Area .... 6.02.01.I
Guarantees and Sureties ..................................... 11.04.00 et seq.
See: GUARANTEES AND SURETIES
Public Facilities
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
tion
Appropriation of Fair -Share Revenues ................ 5.07.00.G
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.Q.2
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards ................................. 7.06.02
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Standards and Requirements
Targeted Industries ...................................... 3.01.03.EE.2.r
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Use Limitations, Research and Education Park Overlay
Zone
Conditional Uses ......................................... 4.03.05.13
FINDINGS. See: DECISIONS, FINDINGS AND REVIEWS
FINES, FORFEITURES AND OTHER PENALTIES
Code Enforcement ............................................. 11.13.02 et seq.
See: CODE ENFORCEMENT
Development Permits
Vegetation Removal Permits
Violations ................................................. 11.05.06.F
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:84 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
FIRE PROTECTION AND PREVENTION
Section
FINES, FORFEITURES AND OTHER PENALTIES (Cont'd.)
Sea Turtle Protection
Standards for New Beach Access Points
11.07.D
Standardized Information Requirement ..............
6.04.02.L.3
Towers and Antennas
7.10.12
Telecommunications Tower Siting ........................
7.10.23.V
Transportation Systems
3.01.03.X.2
House and Building Numbers
Duty of Owner for Placement on Existing Structures
7.10.16.Q
Noncompliance; violation .............................
7.05.09.B.2
Wellfield Protection
Enforcement and Penalties ................................
6.03.07
FIRE PROTECTION AND PREVENTION
Conditional Uses
Standards for Review of Conditional Use Permits
Fire Protection, Adequacy of ...........................
11.07.D
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Scrap, Waste and Recycling Operations .................
7.10.12
I Institutional District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.X.2
Recreational Vehicle Parks
Permitted Specific Uses and Additions ..................
7.10.16.Q
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Standards for Site Plan Review
Fire Protection, Adequacy of .........................
11.02.07.1)
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
Infrastructure Required ..............................
4.05.08.G.6
FISHING, HUNTING AND TRAPPING
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.A.2
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.B.2
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.C.2
IL Industrial, Light District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.T.2
Resource Protection Standards
Mangrove Protection .......................................
6.01.00
Reference to State Regulation and Authority ........
6.01.01
Wetlands Protection
Criteria for Granting Permits .............................
6.02.03.1)
FLAGS, BANNERS AND PENNANTS
Signs and Billboards
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:85 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
Applicability...................................................
Section
FLAGS, BANNERS AND PENNANTS (Cont'd.)
6.05.02.F
Nonconforming Signs
6.05.02.13
Removal of Non -Conforming Flags, Banners, and
6.05.02.0
Pennants .............................................
9.05.00.F
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs
6.05.02.G
Authorized Temporary Signs
6.05.02.E
Temporary Special Event Promotional Flags, Ban-
ners, and Pennants Requiring a Permit .......
9.01.02.0
FLOODING, FLOODS
6.05.01.1)
Stormwater Management
6.05.01.F
Intent and Purpose .........................................
7.07.01
Local Jurisdictional Permit Requirements
6.05.03.0
Local Government Criteria .............................
7.07.07.B
FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
Applicability...................................................
6.05.02
Abrogation and Greater Restrictions ....................
6.05.02.F
Areas to Which this Ordinance Applies .................
6.05.02.13
Basis for Establishing Flood Hazard Areas .............
6.05.02.0
General......................................................
6.05.02.A
Interpretation ...............................................
6.05.02.G
OtherLaws ..................................................
6.05.02.E
Submission of Additional Data to Establish Flood
Hazard Areas ..........................................
6.05.02.1)
Coordination with the Florida Building Code .............
6.05.01.1)
Disclaimer of Liability ........................................
6.05.01.F
Duties and Powers of the Floodplain Administrator
Applications and Permits ..................................
6.05.03.0
Designation..................................................
6.05.03.A
Floodplain Management Records .........................
6.05.03.1
General......................................................
6.05.03.13
Inspections ..................................................
6.05.03.G
Notices and Orders .........................................
6.05.03.F
Other Duties of the Floodplain Administrator..........
6.05.03.H
Substantial Improvement and Substantial Damage
Determinations ........................................
6.05.03.D
Flood resistant development
Buildings and Structures ..................................
6.05.09.A
Manufactured Homes ......................................
6.05.09.1)
Other Development .........................................
6.05.09.G
Recreational Vehicles and Park Trailers ................
6.05.09.E
Site Improvements, Utilities and Limitations ..........
6.05.09.0
Subdivisions.................................................
6.05.09.13
Tanks.........................................................
6.05.09.F
Inspections
Buildings, Structures and Facilities Exempt from the
Florida Building Code
Final Inspection ..........................................
6.05.06.E
Generally..................................................
6.05.06.0
Lowest floor inspection ..................................
6.05.06.1)
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:86 Adopted
May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
FOOD AND FOOD SERVICES
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.A.7
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.A.2
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.B.7
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.B.2
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:87 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT (Cont'd.)
Development Other Than Buildings and Structures...
6.05.06.B
General......................................................
6.05.06.A
Manufactured Homes ......................................
6.05.06.F
Intent...........................................................
6.05.01.0
Permits
Application for a Permit or Approval ....................
6.05.04.1)
Buildings, Structures and Facilities Exempt from the
Florida Building Code .................................
6.05.04.0
Expiration...................................................
6.05.04.F
Floodplain Development Permits or Approvals .........
6.05.04.B
Other Permits Required ...................................
6.05.04.H
Permits Required ...........................................
6.05.04.A
Suspension or Revocation .................................
6.05.04.G
Validity of Permit or Approval ............................
6.05.04.E
Scope............................................................
6.05.01.13
Site Plans and Construction Documents
Additional Analyses and Certifications ..................
6.05.05.0
Information for Development in Flood Hazard Areas .
6.05.05.A
Information on Flood Hazard Areas without Base
Flood Elevations (Approximate Zone A) ............
6.05.05.13
Submission of Additional Data ...........................
6.05.05.D
Title.............................................................
6.05.01.A
Variances and Appeals
Appeals......................................................
6.05.07.B
Conditions for Issuance of Variances ....................
6.05.07.H
Considerations for Issuance of Variances ...............
6.05.07.G
Functionally Dependent Uses .............................
6.05.07.F
General ......................................................
6.05.07.A
Historic Buildings ..........................................
6.05.07.E
Limitations on Authority to Grant Variances...........
6.05.07.0
Restrictions in Floodways.................................
6.05.07.1)
Violations
Authority ....................................................
6.05.08.13
Unlawful Continuance .....................................
6.05.08.0
Violations....................................................
6.05.08.A
Warning........................................................
6.05.01.E
FLOORING, FLOORS
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Standards and Requirements
Residential Density and Non -Residential Floor Area
Ratios.................................................
7.03.03.13
FOOD AND FOOD SERVICES
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.A.7
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.A.2
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.B.7
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.B.2
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FORESTRY
Section
FOOD AND FOOD SERVICES (Cont'd.)
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
3.01.03.A.2
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.C.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.C.2
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.E.6
Bed and Breakfast Residences
Minimum Standards .......................................
7.10.20.B
CG Commercial, General District
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.5.2
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.Q.2
CO Commercial, Office District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.R.8
CPUB Conservation - Public District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.1111.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.06.02 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
I Institutional District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.X.8
IL Industrial, Light District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.T.2
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Enclosed Buildings or Groups of Buildings Used for
the Production of Food, Produce, Animals (Land
or Water Species), or Ornamental Plants or
Trees in a Agricultural Zoning District, Landscap-
ing Requirements for ...............................
7.09.044
River Park—Community Overlay Zone
Use Limitations .............................................
4.02.05
Temporary Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Temporary Uses Permitted ...................
8.02.02
U Utilities District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.W.8
FORESTRY
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.A.2
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.B.2
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.C.2
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Specific Standards, TVC
Agricultural Uses ........................................ 4.04.04.0
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Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
FORESTRY (Cont'd.)
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Supplemental Requirements ......................... 6.00.05.E
FORFEITURES. See: FINES, FORFEITURES AND OTHER
PENALTIES
FOWL. See: ANIMALS AND FOWL
FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS. See: CIVIC, SOCIAL
AND FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS
FRONTAGE
Transportation Systems
Streets....................................................... 7.05.02
FUMES. See: DUST, FUMES, ODORS OR SMOKE
FFI
GARAGES. See: CARPORTS AND GARAGES
GARBAGE. See: SOLID WASTE
GIFTS. See: DONATIONS OR GIFTS
GLARE
Airport Overlay Zones
Use Restrictions ............................................ 4.00.04
Home Occupations
Use Limitations for Home Occupations .................. 8.01.03
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Off -Street Site Lighting Requirements and General
Design Standards ................................... 7.09.04.K
GOLF COURSES
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements
Open Space Requirements
General Guidelines .................................... 7.04.02.B
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards ................................. 7.06.02
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Authorized Uses
Nonresidential Development Uses ..................... 7.01.02.13
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ........................................... 4.04.05.1-1
Wellfield Protection
Exemptions
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
GRADING, GRADES
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Back -Siphonage and Backflow Preventers, Landscap-
ing and Screening Requirements for ............. 7.09.04.H
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report.. 7.10.23.F
Transportation Systems
Rights -of -Way Determinations and Dedications,
Improvements
Clearing and Grading ................................... 7.05.03.J
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
tion of an Approved Notice of Vegetation
Removal............................................ 6.00.05.0
GREENBELT. See: YARDS AND OPEN SPACES
GROWTH MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR
Administration and Enforcement
Authorization by a Development Permit Required Prior
to Undertaking Any Development Activity
Post -Development Order Changes ..................... 11.01.04
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Section
GOLF COURSES (Cont'd.)
Activities exempt
Fertilizers Containing Any Form of Nitrogen,
Exemption for the Use of ........................
6.03.05.A.5
GOODS AND SERVICES
CG Commercial, General District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.S.2
CO Commercial, Office District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.R.2
IH Industrial, Heavy District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.U.2
IL Industrial, Light District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.T.2
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Use Limitations, Research and Education Park Overlay
Zone
Conditional Uses .........................................
4.03.05.13
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
RLSA Town Design Criteria .........................
4.05.08.G.2
GRADING, GRADES
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Back -Siphonage and Backflow Preventers, Landscap-
ing and Screening Requirements for ............. 7.09.04.H
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report.. 7.10.23.F
Transportation Systems
Rights -of -Way Determinations and Dedications,
Improvements
Clearing and Grading ................................... 7.05.03.J
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
tion of an Approved Notice of Vegetation
Removal............................................ 6.00.05.0
GREENBELT. See: YARDS AND OPEN SPACES
GROWTH MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR
Administration and Enforcement
Authorization by a Development Permit Required Prior
to Undertaking Any Development Activity
Post -Development Order Changes ..................... 11.01.04
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LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
GROWTH MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR (Cont'd.)
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
Enforcement ..............................................
7.10.18.N
Amendments ...................................................
11.06.04 et seq.
See: AMENDMENTS
Board of Adjustment
Office of the Growth Management Director .............
12.04.05
Conditional Uses
Application Procedures
Development and Adjustment of an Approved or
Existing Conditional Use ..........................
11.07.05.E
Filing Application for Conditional Use Permit .......
11.07.05.13
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.10.01 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Development Permits .........................................
11.05.03 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT PERMITS
Endangered or Threatened Species .........................
6.04.01 et seq.
See: ENDANGERED OR THREATENED SPECIES
Hearings
Hearing Procedures
Record of the Hearing ...................................
11.00.04.D
Setting the Hearing ......................................
11.00.04.A
Planning and Zoning Commission
Office of the Growth Management Director .............
12.02.05
Public Facilities ...............................................
5.03.03 et seq.
See: PUBLIC FACILITIES
Sea Turtle Protection .........................................
6.04.02 et seq.
See: SEA TURTLE PROTECTION
Site Plans ......................................................
11.02.02 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SSA Designation
Review Process, SSA
Pre -application Conference with County Staff.....
4.05.07.D.1
Transportation Systems
House and Building Numbers
Generally ..................................................
7.05.09.A
Street Naming and Identification
Authority for Naming and Numbering Streets.......
7.05.08.H
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Procedures for Use of Transferable Development
Rights Credits .......................................
4.04.05.G
Utilities
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit
On -Site Sewage Disposal System, Requirement for.
7.08.04.13
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
GUEST HOUSES
Section
GROWTH MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR (Cont'd.)
Variances.......................................................
10.01.04 et seq.
See: VARIANCES
Wellfield Protection ...........................................
6.03.01 et seq.
See: WELLFIELD PROTECTION
Zoning Districts
3.01.03.C.8
Use Regulations, Zoning District
Administrative Use Regulations for Permitted and
3.01.03.E.7
Conditional Uses ....................................
3.01.02
GUARANTEES AND SURETIES
Generally.......................................................
11.04.01
Amount and Type of Security .............................
11.04.0l.0
Applicability.................................................
11.04.01.A
Completion of Improvements .............................
11.04.01.D
Improvement Agreement Required .......................
11.04.01.13
Maintenance of Improvements ............................
11.04.0l.F
Public Works and Improvements
Completion of Improvements ...........................
11.04.01.1)
Improvement Agreement Required ....................
11.04.01.13
Maintenance of Improvements .........................
11.04.0l.F
Release of Security Following Completion of Required
Improvements .......................................
11.04.01.E
Release of Security Following Completion of Required
Improvements ..........................................
11.04.01.E
Public Works and Improvements
Generally. See herein that subject
GUEST HOUSES
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.A.8
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.13.8
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.C.8
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.E.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.10.04
R/C Residential/Conservation District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.D.8
RE -1 Residential, Estate - 1 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.F.7
RE -2 Residential, Estate - 2 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.G.7
GUTTERS. See: CURBS AND GUTTERS
M
HANDICAPPED PERSONS. See: DISABLED OR
HANDICAPPED PERSONS
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LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
HARDSHIP RELIEF
Eminent Domain Waiver ..................................... 10.03.00 et seq.
See: EMINENT DOMAIN WAIVER
Nonconformities............................................... 10.00.00 et seq.
See: NONCONFORMITIES
Variances....................................................... 10.01.00 et seq.
See: VARIANCES
HAZARDS, HAZARDOUS
Coastal Area Protection
Use of Public Funds in Coastal High Hazard Area ....
6.02.01.I
Floodplain Management .....................................
6.05.01 et seq.
See: FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
Home Occupations
Use Limitations for Home Occupations ..................
8.01.03
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Off -Street Site Lighting Requirements and General
Design Standards ...................................
7.09.04.K
Newsracks
Emergency Removal ........................................
7.10.26.I
Stormwater Management
Failure to Maintain Stormwater Management Systems
7.07.08
Utilities
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit
On -Site Sewage Disposal System, Requirement for.
7.08.04.13
Variances
Special Provisions where Variance is Sought to Require-
ments of Flood Damage Prevention
Conditions for Variances ................................
10.01.25.F
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Exemptions ...............................................
6.00.04
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Code Enforcement
Enforcement of Code Provisions
Environmental Control Provisions, Enforcement
Procedures for
Powers of Health Department ....................... 11.13.02.M
HEALTH, SANITATION, SAFETY AND WELFARE
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Purpose and Applicability ............................... 7.06.01
Sewage and Septage Treatment Facilities in Agricultural
Zoning Districts ........................................ 7.10.13
Newsracks..................................................... 7.10.26 et seq.
See: NEWSRACKS
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Utilities
Section
HEALTH, SANITATION, SAFETY AND WELFARE (Cont'd.)
Public Facilities
7.08.04.13
Adequate Public Facilities
Findings...................................................
5.00.02
Sea Turtle Protection
Mechanical Beach Cleaning, Standards for .............
6.04.02.N
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
10.01.25.F
Standards for Site Plan Review
Effect on Nearby Properties ..........................
11.02.07.13
Stormwater Management ....................................
7.07.01 et seq.
See: STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
6.00.01
Towers and Antennas ........................................
7.10.23 et seq.
See: TOWERS AND ANTENNAS
Transportation Systems
General Provisions .........................................
7.05.01
U Utilities District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.W.2
Utilities
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit
On -Site Sewage Disposal System, Requirement for.
7.08.04.13
Water and Sewer Service Systems
Waiver of Dry Line Requirements .....................
7.08.03.0
Variances
Special Provisions where Variance is Sought to Require-
ments of Flood Damage Prevention
Conditions for Variances ................................
10.01.25.F
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Exemptions...............................................
6.00.04
Intent......................................................
6.00.01
Wellfield Protection
Exemptions
Activities exempt
Office Uses, Exemptions for ..........................
6.03.05.A.7
Generally
Legislative Intent ........................................
6.03.01.A
HEARINGS
Amendments
Amendments to the Code and Official Zoning Atlas
Planning and Zoning Commission, Action by
Public Hearing by Planning and Zoning Commis-
sion.................................................
11.06.05.A
Appeals
Procedure, Appeals
Environmental Control Hearing Board ............... 11.11.02.G
Hearing .................................................... 11.11.02.1)
Board of Adjustment
Meetings, Hearings, and Procedures ..................... 12.04.07
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LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
HEDGES. See: FENCES, HEDGES, WALLS AND OTHER
ENCLOSURES
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
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Section
HEARINGS (Cont'd.)
Conditional Uses
Application Procedures
Board of County Commissioners, Hearing and Action
by......................................................
11.07.05.1)
Planning and Zoning Commission, Hearing and Action
by......................................................
11.07.05.0
Hearing Procedures
Action by Decision -Making Body .........................
11.00.04.E
Appeals from Board of County Commissioners Deci-
sions.....................................................
11.00.04.11
Conduct of the Hearing ....................................
11.00.04.0
Continuance of Hearing .................................
11.00.04.C.2
Rights of all Persons .....................................
11.00.04.C.1
Examination and Copying of Application and Other
Documents ..............................................
11.00.04.B
Notification..................................................
11.00.04.F
Reconsideration of Action .................................
11.00.04.G
Record of the Hearing ......................................
11.00.04.1)
Setting the Hearing ........................................
11.00.04.A
Landscaping
Removal of Exotic Vegetation
Exotic Pest Plants; Maintenance and Removal
Right of Hearing Before the Board of County
Commissioners ....................................
7.09.05.B.3
Planning and Zoning Commission
Meetings, Hearings, and Procedures .....................
12.02.07
Public Notice Requirements
Notice........................................................
11.00.03
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
Public Hearing of Petitions for Abandonment of County
Rights -of -Way and Public Easements for Drainage
of County Rights -of -Way ..............................
11.10.07
Special Master Review Process
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution -
Special Master Review Process
Conduct of the Special Master Proceeding
Sufficiency Hearing; Request to Be Dropped as a
Party...............................................
11.14.07.0
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SSA Designation
Application Package, SSA
Public Hearing for SSA Credit Agreement.........
4.05.07.C.6
Variances.......................................................
10.02.05 et seq.
See: VARIANCES
HEDGES. See: FENCES, HEDGES, WALLS AND OTHER
ENCLOSURES
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
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Section
HEIGHT
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Fences, Walls, and Hedges ................................
8.00.04
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.A.4
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.B.4
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.C.4
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
Height, Building .........................................
7.10.18.I
Airport Overlay Zones ........................................
4.00.03
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.E.4
CG Commercial, General District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.5.4
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.Q.4
CO Commercial, Office District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.R.4
Coastal Area Protection ......................................
6.02.01.F et seq.
See: COASTAL AREA PROTECTION
Coastal Construction Code
Requirements, Coastal Construction .....................
13.00.02.1)
CPUB Conservation - Public District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.HH.4
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements ...
7.04.00
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Dimensional/Building Height Requirements............
3.01.03.AA.11
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone ......
4.01.00 et seq.
See: HUTCHINSON ISLAND—BUILDING HEIGHT
OVERLAY ZONE
I Institutional District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.X.4
IH Industrial, Heavy District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.U.4
IL Industrial, Light District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.14
IX Industrial, Extraction District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.V.4
Landscaping...................................................
7.09.03 et seq.
See: LANDSCAPING
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LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
I INSTITUTIONAL DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
Section
HUTCHINSON ISLAND—BUILDING HEIGHT OVERLAY
3.01.03.X.7
ZONE
3.01.03.X.4
Exceptions.....................................................
4.01.05
Generally.......................................................
4.01.02
Height Limitations, Hutchinson Island ....................
4.01.04
Hutchinson Island—Zone A ...............................
4.01.04.A
Hutchinson Island—Zone B ...............................
4.01.04.13
Hutchinson Island Building Height Zones .................
4.01.03
Hutchinson Island—Zone A ...............................
4.01.03.A
Hutchinson Island—Zone B ...............................
4.01.03.13
Intent...........................................................
4.01.01
Variances.......................................................
4.01.06
I INSTITUTIONAL DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.X.8
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.X.7
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.X.4
Landscaping Requirements ..................................
3.01.03.X.6
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.X.3
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...........
3.01.03.X.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.X.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
6.06.01
Permitted Uses and Locations
High Intensity ............................................
7.03.02.A
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
7.10.26.C(3)
Permitted Uses
7.10.26.G
Commercial or Industrial Classified Land Use Area,
5.08.02 et seq.
For Properties Located in any .....................
7.02.02.B
Residential or Agricultural Classified Land Use
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:105 Adopted May 19, 2009
Area, For Properties Located in any ..............
7.02.02.A
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.X.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
IDENTIFICATION
Bed and Breakfast Residences
Minimum Standards .......................................
7.10.20.13
Development Permits .........................................
11.05.08 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT PERMITS
Mining
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
Permit...................................................
6.06.01
Newsracks
Application and Issuance of Certificate of Compliance
Applications ...............................................
7.10.26.C(3)
Installation and Maintenance .............................
7.10.26.G
Public Facilities ...............................................
5.08.02 et seq.
See: PUBLIC FACILITIES
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Variances....................................................... 10.01.04 et seq.
See: VARIANCES
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
Section
IDENTIFICATION (Cont'd.)
Public Notice Requirements
6.00.05.0
Notice
Content of Notice ........................................
11.00.03.A
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
3.01.03.U.7
Performance Standards
Signs.......................................................
4.03.04.13
Sea Turtle Protection
7.10.12
Application Contents, Sea Turtle Protection Plan (STPP)
3.01.03.U.4
Preparation and Submission of STPP .................
6.04.02.F.1
Standards for New Beach Access Points
3.01.03.U.3
Standardized Information Requirement ..............
6.04.02.L.3
Towers and Antennas
3.01.03.U.2
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas .............
7.10.23.P
General....................................................
7.10.23.0
Transportation Systems ......................................
7.05.02 et seq.
See: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Variances....................................................... 10.01.04 et seq.
See: VARIANCES
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
tion of an Approved Notice of Vegetation
Removal ............................................
6.00.05.0
IH INDUSTRIAL, HEAVY DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.U.8
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.U.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Mobile Food Vendors .......................................
7.10.01
Scrap, Waste and Recycling Operations .................
7.10.12
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.U.4
Landscaping Requirements ..................................
3.01.03.U.6
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.U.3
Offstreet Parking and Loading Requirements .............
3.01.03.U.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.U.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Permitted Uses and Locations
High Intensity ............................................
7.03.02.A
Medium Intensity ........................................
7.03.02.13
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Permitted Uses
Commercial or Industrial Classified Land Use Area,
For Properties Located in any .....................
7.02.02.13
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.U.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:106 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
IMPROVEMENTS. See: PUBLIC WORKS AND IMPROVE-
MENTS
INDEMNIFICATION
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
General Requirements for the Location of New Wire-
less Telecommunications Towers on County
Property .............................................. 7.10.23.I
Wellfield Protection
Special Exemptions
Information and fee required ........................... 6.03.06.13
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:107 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
IH INDUSTRIAL, HEAVY DISTRICT (Cont'd.)
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
General....................................................
7.10.23.0
Utilities
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit
Requirements .............................................
7.08.04.A
IL INDUSTRIAL, LIGHT DISTRICT
AccessoryUses ................................................
3.01.03.T.8
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.T.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Mobile Food Vendors .......................................
7.10.01
Scrap, Waste and Recycling Operations .................
7.10.12
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.T.4
Landscaping Requirements ..................................
3.01.03.T.6
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.T.3
Offstreet Parking and Loading Requirements .............
3.01.03.T.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.T.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District ........
7.03.02 et seq.
See: PMUD PLANNED MIXED USE DEVELOP-
MENT DISTRICT
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Permitted Uses
Commercial or Industrial Classified Land Use Area,
For Properties Located in any .....................
7.02.02.13
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.T.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
General ....................................................
7.10.23.0
Utilities
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit
Requirements .............................................
7.08.04.A
ILLNESS. See: DISEASE OR ILLNESS
IMPROVEMENTS. See: PUBLIC WORKS AND IMPROVE-
MENTS
INDEMNIFICATION
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
General Requirements for the Location of New Wire-
less Telecommunications Towers on County
Property .............................................. 7.10.23.I
Wellfield Protection
Special Exemptions
Information and fee required ........................... 6.03.06.13
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:107 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER DISPOSAL
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.A.7
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.B.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.C.7
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.E.6
IH Industrial, Heavy District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.U.8
IL Industrial, Light District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.T.8
U Utilities District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.W.2
INDUSTRY, INDUSTRIAL
Airport Industrial Park ......................................
7.10.18 et seq.
See: AIRPORT INDUSTRIAL PARK
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards .................................
7.06.02
Restrictions on Heavy Vehicles in Residential Districts
Industrial Equipment Prohibited or Restricted in
Residential Districts ................................
7.10.14.0
IH Industrial, Heavy District ...............................
3.01.03.0
IL Industrial, Light District .................................
3.01.03.T
IX Industrial, Extraction District ...........................
3.01.03.V
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Permitted Uses
Commercial or Industrial Classified Land Use Area,
For Properties Located in any .....................
7.02.02.13
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Standards and Requirements
Targeted Industries ......................................
3.01.03.EE.2.r
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Use Limitations, Research and Education Park Overlay
Zone
Use Limitations ..........................................
4.03.05.D
Stormwater Management
Local Jurisdictional Permit Requirements
Requirement for Dry Detention/Retention............
7.07.07.0
Transportation Systems
Use of Residential Property for Access ..................
7.05.05
Utilities
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit
On -Site Sewage Disposal System, Requirement for.
7.08.04.13
INGRESS, EGRESS
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.06.02 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:108 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
INJURY. See: DAMAGE, DEFACEMENT, DESTRUC-
TION OR INJURY
INSECTS. See: PEST CONTROL
INSPECTIONS
Section
INGRESS, EGRESS (Cont'd.)
Site Plans
13.00.01.A
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Conditions on Site Plan Approval
Major Site Plan Approvals
7.10.32.D
Access Improvements ...............................
11.02.08.B.2
Minor Site Plan Approvals
13.09.01
Access Improvements ...............................
11.02.08.A.2
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
11.04.01.1)
Supplemental Review Information for Wireless
Telecommunications Tower Conditional Use
Applications ..........................................
7.10.23.Q
INJURY. See: DAMAGE, DEFACEMENT, DESTRUC-
TION OR INJURY
INSECTS. See: PEST CONTROL
INSPECTIONS
Building Code
Adopted ......................................................
13.00.01.A
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Condominium Hotel Unit Uses
Reporting and Inspection ...............................
7.10.32.D
Exterior Property Maintenance Code
Adopted......................................................
13.09.01
Guarantees and Sureties
Generally
Completion of Improvements ...........................
11.04.01.1)
Mining
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
Permit ...................................................
6.06.0 1
Public Notice Requirements
Notice
Public Inspection .........................................
11.00.03.0
Sea Turtle Protection
New Beachfront Lighting, Standards for
Beachfront Lighting Approval ..........................
6.04.02.I.9
Standard Housing Code
Adopted......................................................
13.08.01
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Inspections, Reports, Fees, and Monitoring...........
7.10.23.T
Transportation Systems
Driveways
Buildings, Building Regulations ........................
7.05.06.13
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:109 Adopted
May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
INSPECTIONS (Cont'd.)
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Mitigation
Inspection required ................................. 6.00.05.D.4
INSURANCE
Newsracks
Application and Issuance of Certificate of Compliance
Certificate of Compliance, Issuance of ................
7.10.26.C(5)
Provisions re ................................................
7.10.26.D
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Standards and Requirements
Targeted Industries ......................................
3.01.03.EE.2.r
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
General Requirements for the Location of New Wire-
less Telecommunications Towers on County
Property ..............................................
7.10.23.I
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Procedures for Use of Transferable Development
Rights Credits .......................................
4.04.05.G
INTERFERENCE
Airport Overlay Zones
Use Restrictions ............................................ 4.00.04
Coastal Area Protection
Beach and Dune Protection
Erosion Control
Limitations ............................................. 6.02.01.E.6.a
Home Occupations
Use Limitations for Home Occupations .................. 8.01.03
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:110 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
LICENSES AND PERMITS
Section
LANDSCAPING (Cont'd.)
Weights and Measures
General Landscaping Requirements. See herein that
11.01.00
subject
LAW ENFORCEMENT
I Institutional District
7.10.18.D
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.X.2
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
6.02.01.C.4
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
11.07.03 et seq.
Restriction ...........................................
4.04.05.11
LEASING. See: RENTING OR LEASING
LEGAL ACTIONS. See: SUITS, ACTIONS AND OTHER
7.10.04
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
7.10.01
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. See: SUITS, ACTIONS AND
11.05.00 et seq.
OTHER LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
LEGAL PROCESSES. See: WRITS, WARRANTS AND
OTHER LEGAL PROCESSES
LIABILITY
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
6.04.01.E
General Requirements for the Location of New Wire-
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:121 Adopted May 19, 2009
less Telecommunications Towers on County
Property ..............................................
7.10.23.I
LICENSES AND PERMITS
Administration and Enforcement
Authorization by a Development Permit Required Prior
to Undertaking Any Development Activity.........
11.01.00
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
General Provisions .......................................
7.10.18.D
Coastal Area Protection
Environmentally Sensitive Resources and Habitats
Permit required ..........................................
6.02.01.C.4
Conditional Uses ..............................................
11.07.03 et seq.
See: CONDITIONAL USES
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Guest Homes ................................................
7.10.04
Mobile Food Vendors .......................................
7.10.01
Development Permits .........................................
11.05.00 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT PERMITS
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection
Procedure for Review of Applications Pertaining to
Inventory Properties .............................
6.04.01.E
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:121 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
LIENS
Code Enforcement
Enforcement of Code Provisions
Environmental Control Provisions, Enforcement
Procedures for
Liens, Civil Fines to be ............................... 11.13.02.I
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:122 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
LICENSES AND PERMITS (Cont'd.)
Floodplain Management .....................................
6.05.04
Landscaping
General Provisions
Requirement for Landscaping Plan ....................
7.09.03.A
Removal of Exotic Vegetation
General....................................................
7.09.05.A
Mining
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
Permit...................................................
6.06.01
Public Facilities
Development Not Subject to The Requirements of
Chapter V, Adequate Public Facilities
Exempt Permits ..........................................
5.03.02
Public Notice Requirements
Purpose......................................................
11.00.01
Sea Turtle Protection
Management Coordination ................................
6.04.02.13
Signs and Billboards
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs
Authorized Temporary Signs
Temporary Special Event Promotional Flags, Ban-
ners, and Pennants Requiring a Permit .......
9.01.02.0
Permitting and Exemptions ...............................
9.04.00
Stormwater Management ....................................
7.07.05 et seq.
See: STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
General....................................................
7.10.23.0
Utilities
Requirements for all Developments ......................
7.08.01
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit.
7.08.04
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit................................................
6.00.05
Vested Rights
Provisions re
Application for A Vested Rights Special Use Permit
11.09.03.0
Wetlands Protection
Criteria for Granting Permits .............................
6.02.03.1)
Generally
Permit Required ..........................................
6.02.03.A.2
LIENS
Code Enforcement
Enforcement of Code Provisions
Environmental Control Provisions, Enforcement
Procedures for
Liens, Civil Fines to be ............................... 11.13.02.I
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:122 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
LIENS (Cont'd.)
Landscaping
Removal of Exotic Vegetation
Exotic Pest Plants; Maintenance and Removal
Lien, Notice of ......................................... 7.09.05.B.6
LIGHTING, LIGHTS
Airport Overlay Zones
Use Restrictions ............................................
4.00.04
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Car Washes, Self -Service ..................................
7.10.22
Development Permits
Airport Zone Permits
Conditions on Permit Approval ........................
11.05.08.G
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone
Exceptions ...................................................
4.01.05
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Off -Street Site Lighting Requirements and General
Design Standards ...................................
7.09.04.K
PCS (Planned Country Subdivision) District
Standards and Requirements .............................
3.01.03.FF.2.1
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Standards and Requirements .............................
7.03.03.G
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Standards and Requirements .............................
7.02.03.F
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Standards and Requirements .............................
7.01.03.G
River Park—Community Overlay Zone
Performance Standards ....................................
4.02.04.G
Sea Turtle Protection .........................................
6.04.02 et seq.
See: SEA TURTLE PROTECTION
Towers and Antennas ........................................
7.10.23 et seq.
See: TOWERS AND ANTENNAS
Transportation Systems
Sidewalks and Bikeways
Bicycle Racks .............................................
7.05.04.0
LIVESTOCK
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.A.2
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.13.2
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.C.2
LOADING, UNLOADING
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ......... 3.01.03.A.5
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements......... 3.01.03.B.5
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:123 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
LOADING, UNLOADING (Cont'd.)
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements.........
3.01.03.C.5
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements.........
3.01.03.E.5
CG Commercial, General District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements .........
3.01.03.5.5
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements.........
3.01.03.Q.5
CO Commercial, Office District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements.........
3.01.03.R.5
CPUB Conservation - Public District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements .........
3.01.03.HH.5
CR Commercial Resort District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements.........
3.01.03.II.4
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.06.00 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements .........
3.01.03.AA.12
I Institutional District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements .........
3.01.03.X.5
IH Industrial, Heavy District
Offstreet Parking and Loading Requirements ..........
3.01.03.U.5
IL Industrial, Light District
Offstreet Parking and Loading Requirements ..........
3.01.03.T.5
IX Industrial, Extraction District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements.........
3.01.03.V.5
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Existing Off -Street Parking and Loading Lots .......
7.09.04.G
Loading Spaces and Waste Receptacles, Off -Street..
7.09.04.F
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading ....................................
7.03.03.F
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading ....................................
7.02.03.E
PRW (Planned Retail/Workplace) District
Standards and Requirements
Off -Street Parking Regulations ........................
3.01.03.GG.2.j
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Standards and Requirements
Off -Street Parking Regulations ........................
3.01.03.EE.2.m
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading ....................................
7.01.03.F
R/C Residential/Conservation District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements.........
3.01.03.D.5
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:124
Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
M
MACHINERY. See: EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY
MAILING OR SHIPPING
Public Notice Requirements
Notice
Mail........................................................ 11.00.03. D
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:125 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
LOADING, UNLOADING (Cont'd.)
RE -1 Residential, Estate - 1 District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements.........
3.01.03.F.5
RE -2 Residential, Estate - 2 District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements.........
3.01.03.G.5
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Performance Standards
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ......
4.03.04.F
RF Religious Facilities District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements .........
3.01.03.Y.5
River Park—Community Overlay Zone
Performance Standards
Offstreet Parking and Loading .........................
4.02.04.E
RM -5 Residential, Multiple -Family - 5 District
Off -Street Parking Requirements ........................
3.01.03.L.5
RM -7 Residential, Multiple -Family - 7 District
Off -Street Parking Requirements ........................
3.01.03.M.5
RM -9 Residential, Multiple -Family - 9 District
Off -Street Parking Requirements ........................
3.01.03.N.5
RM -11 Residential, Multiple -Family - 11 District
Off -Street Parking Requirements ........................
3.01.03.0.5
RM -15 Residential, Multiple -Family - 15 District
Off -Street Parking Requirements ........................
3.01.03.P.5
RS -2 Residential, Single -Family - 2 District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements .........
3.01.03.11.5
RS -3 Residential, Single -Family - 3 District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements .........
3.01.03.I.5
RS -4 Residential, Single -Family - 4 District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements .........
3.01.03.J.5
U Utilities District
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements.........
3.01.03.W.5
LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY
Designation and Establishment .............................
12.03.02
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Community Architectural Standards
Site Plan Submission Standards .......................
7.10.24.13
Duties and Responsibilities ..................................
12.03.01
Organization Rules and Procedures ........................
12.03.03
Public Meetings and Records ................................
12.03.04
M
MACHINERY. See: EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY
MAILING OR SHIPPING
Public Notice Requirements
Notice
Mail........................................................ 11.00.03. D
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:125 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
MAILING OR SHIPPING (Cont'd.)
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
Public Hearing of Petitions for Abandonment of County
Rights -of -Way and Public Easements for Drainage
of County Rights -of -Way
Mailing of Public Hearing .............................. 11.10.07.E
MAINTENANCE
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.A.7
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.B.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.C.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards .................................
7.06.02
Exterior Property Maintenance Code ......................
13.09.01 et seq.
See: EXTERIOR PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE
Guarantees and Sureties
Generally
Maintenance of Improvements .........................
11.04.0l.F
Landscaping...................................................
7.09.03 et seq.
See: LANDSCAPING
Newsracks
Installation and Maintenance .............................
7.10.26.G
Purpose and Criteria .......................................
7.10.26.A
Nonconformities
Structures, Nonconforming
Ordinary Repair and Maintenance ....................
10.00.03.13
Uses, Nonconforming
Ordinary Repair and Maintenance ....................
10.00.02.13
Sea Turtle Protection
Standards for New Beach Access Points
Maintenance Requirements, Sign ......................
6.04.02.L.4
Stormwater Management
Exemptions from Stormwater Permits ...................
7.07.05
Failure to Maintain Stormwater Management Systems
7.07.08
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Building Codes/Safety Standards ......................
7.10.23.E
Pre -Existing Telecommunications Towers ............
7.10.23.5
Transportation Systems
Rights -of -Way Determinations and Dedications,
Improvements
Private Roads - Maintenance ...........................
7.05.03.K
Sidewalks and Bikeways ..................................
7.05.04.E
Variances
Special Provisions where Variance is Sought to Require-
ments of Flood Damage Prevention
General Standards for Issuance ........................
10.01.25.0
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:126 Adopted
May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
MAPS. See: SURVEYS, MAPS AND PLATS
Section
MAINTENANCE (Cont'd.)
Wellfield Protection
Special Exemptions
3.01.03.5.7
Review by the Growth Management Director ........
6.03.06.0
MANUFACTURE, MANUFACTURING
7.10.09
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.A.7
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.B.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.C.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards .................................
7.06.02
IH Industrial, Heavy District
Development Code
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.U.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.U.2
IL Industrial, Light District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.T.2
Purpose......................................................
3.01.03.T.1
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Standards and Requirements
Targeted Industries ......................................
3.01.03.EE.2.r
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Use Limitations, Research and Education Park Overlay
Zone
Conditional Uses .........................................
4.03.05.13
MANUFACTURED HOMES AND MANUFACTURED
HOME PARKS. See: MOBILE HOMES AND MOBILE
HOME PARKS
MAPS. See: SURVEYS, MAPS AND PLATS
MARINAS
CG Commercial, General District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.5.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Marinas......................................................
7.10.09
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards .................................
7.06.02
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.AA.6
IL Industrial, Light District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.T.2
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Authorized Uses
Nonresidential Development Uses .....................
7.01.02.13
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:127 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.A.7
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.B.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.C.7
CG Commercial, General District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.S.2
Coastal Area Protection
Beach and Dune Protection
Restrictions on the Use of Rigid, Fixed Above -
Ground Structures and Materials ................
6.02.01.E.3
Treatment of Impenetrable, Buried, Synthetic Materi-
als.....................................................
6.02.01.E.5
Home Occupations
Use Limitations for Home Occupations ..................
8.01.03
Landscaping
General Provisions
Plant Materials ...........................................
7.09.03.E
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Aesthetics.................................................
7.10.23.G
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report..
7.10.23.F
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
tion of an Approved Notice of Vegetation
Removal ............................................
6.00.05.0
MEASURES. See: WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
MEDICAL SERVICES
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Pain Management Clinics .................................
7.10.29
MEETINGS
Board of Adjustment
Meetings, Hearings, and Procedures .....................
12.04.07
Secretary ....................................................
12.04.04
Conditional Uses
Application Procedures
Pre -Application Conference .............................
11.07.05.A
Local Planning Agency
Public Meetings and Records .............................
12.03.04
Planning and Zoning Commission
Meetings, Hearings, and Procedures .....................
12.02.07
Secretary ....................................................
12.02.04
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LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
MEMBERS, MEMBERSHIP
Board of Adjustment
Membership: Appointment, Removal, Terms, Vacan-
cies, and Qualifications ............................... 12.04.02
Development Review Committee ............................ 12.09.02
Planning and Zoning Commission
Membership: Appointment, Removal, Terms, Vacan-
cies and Qualifications ................................ 12.02.02
MINING
Section
MEETINGS (Cont'd.)
Public Facilities
3.01.03.A.7
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
tion
3.01.03.B.7
Application Process ......................................
5.07.00.0
Site Plans
3.01.03.C.7
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Pre -Application Conference .............................
11.02.01
Special Master Review Process
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution -
6.06.03
Special Master Review Process
6.06.02
Pre -Initiation Meeting ...................................
11.14.04
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
3.01.03.V.2
Zone
SRA Designation
Stewardship Receiving Area (SRA) Review and
Approval Processes
4.03.05.1)
Pre -Application Conference ..........................
4.05.08.D.1
SSA Designation
Review Process, SSA
Pre -application Conference with County Staff.....
4.05.07.D.1
Variances
Action of Board of Adjustment ............................
10.01.05
MEMBERS, MEMBERSHIP
Board of Adjustment
Membership: Appointment, Removal, Terms, Vacan-
cies, and Qualifications ............................... 12.04.02
Development Review Committee ............................ 12.09.02
Planning and Zoning Commission
Membership: Appointment, Removal, Terms, Vacan-
cies and Qualifications ................................ 12.02.02
MINING
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.A.7
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.B.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.C.7
Development Permits
Mining Permits .............................................
11.05.11
Excavation or Mining Resulting in the Creation of a
WaterBody ...............................................
6.06.03
Extraction Incidental to Development Activities .........
6.06.02
IX Industrial, Extraction District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.V.2
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Use Limitations, Research and Education Park Overlay
Zone
Use Limitations ..........................................
4.03.05.1)
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
MOBILE HOMES AND MOBILE HOME PARKS
Section
MINING (Cont'd.)
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
3.01.03.A.8
Permit.....................................................
6.06.01
MITIGATION
3.01.03.B.8
Public Facilities
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
3.01.03.C.8
tion......................................................
5.07.00
Sea Turtle Protection .........................................
6.04.02 et seq.
See: SEA TURTLE PROTECTION
7.10.17.I
Utilities
7.10.17.M
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit
7.10.17.1)
Enforcement ..............................................
7.08.04.0
Vegetation
7.10.05
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
7.06.02
Permit ................................................
6.00.05.1)
Wetlands Protection ..........................................
6.02.03.E
MOBILE HOMES AND MOBILE HOME PARKS
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.A.8
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.B.8
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.C.8
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.E.7
Buffer...........................................................
7.10.17.I
Central Utilities, Requirement for ..........................
7.10.17.M
Density.........................................................
7.10.17.1)
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Mobile Homes as Accessory Uses .........................
7.10.05
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards .................................
7.06.02
Outdoor Displays in Commercial Zoning Districts
Exceptions ................................................
7.10.02.B
Development Permits
Class A Mobile Home Permits ............................
11.05.02
Emergency Shelter ............................................
7.10.17.N
Floodplain Management .....................................
6.05.01 et seq.
See: FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
Generally.......................................................
7.10.17.A
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Additions to Recreational Vehicles, Mobile Homes, and
Travel Trailers .........................................
3.01.03.AA.15
Home Occupations
Authorization ............................................... 8.01.02
Land Use Compatibility ...................................... 7.10.17.13
Landscaping
Applicability................................................. 7.09.02
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LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
MOBILE HOMES AND MOBILE HOME PARKS (Cont'd.)
General Provisions
Requirement for Landscaping Plan ....................
Provisions re ................................................
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
Minimum Park Size ..........................................
Off -Street Parking ............................................
Open Space Standards .......................................
RMH-5 Residential, Mobile Home - 5 District ............
Site Plan, Requirement for ..................................
Specific Accessory Uses ......................................
Temporary Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Temporary Uses Permitted ...................
Traffic Circulation ............................................
Variances
Minimum Yard Setback Standards, Administrative
Variances for the Required
For Mobile Home Parks .................................
MOTELS. See: HOTELS AND MOTELS
MOTOR VEHICLES. See: TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
MOVING OR RELOCATING
Building Code
Bond Required, Moving of Buildings .....................
Moving of Buildings, Improvements by Owner .........
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection
Approval Criteria for Alteration or Development.
Nonconformities
Structures, Nonconforming
Relocation .................................................
Uses, Nonconforming
Relocation.................................................
N
NAMING, NAMES
Transportation Systems
Street Naming and Identification ........................
NATURAL FEATURES
Beaches and Shorelines
Riverine Shoreline Protection
Preserve Area Management Plan ......................
Purpose and Intent ......................................
Coastal Area Protection
Dune Restoration
Character of Restored and Stabilized Beaches and
Section
7.09.03.A
7.10.17.H
7.10.17.E
7.10.17.0
7.10.17.F
7.10.17.G
3.01.03.K
7.10.17.L
7.10.17.K
8.02.02
7.10.17.J
10.01.14.13
13.00.0l.0
13.00.01.1)
6.04.01.0
10.00.03.1)
10.00.02.1)
� 1 1:
6.02.02.F
6.02.02.A
Dunes ................................................. 6.02.01.F.5
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
NATURAL FEATURES (Cont'd.)
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone
Intent........................................................
4.01.01
PCS (Planned Country Subdivision) District
Standards and Requirements .............................
3.01.03.FF.2.i
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Purpose......................................................
7.02.01
Standards and Requirements
Landscaping and Natural Features ....................
7.02.03.G
PRW (Planned Retail/Workplace) District
Standards and Requirements
Landscaping and Natural Features ....................
3.01.03.GG.2.m
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Standards and Requirements
Landscaping and Natural Features ....................
3.01.03.EE.2.s
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Purpose......................................................
7.01.01
Standards and Requirements
Landscaping and Natural Features ....................
7.01.03.H
NATURAL GAS
U Utilities District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.W.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.W.2
NATURAL RESOURCES
Beaches and Shorelines
Riverine Shoreline Protection
Preserve Area Management Plan ......................
6.02.02.F
Purpose and Intent ......................................
6.02.02.A
Coastal Area Protection
Environmentally Sensitive Resources and Habitats ...
6.02.01.0
Resource Protection Standards ..............................
6.00.00 et seq.
See: RESOURCE PROTECTION STANDARDS
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SSA Designation
Application Package, SSA
Natural Resource Index Assessment ................
4.05.07.C.3
Stormwater Management
Intent and Purpose .........................................
7.07.01
NESTS, NESTING
Sea Turtle Protection .........................................
6.04.02 et seq.
See: SEA TURTLE PROTECTION
NEWSRACKS
Abandonment ..................................................
7.10.26.H
Appeals.........................................................
7.10.26.J
Application and Issuance of Certificate of Compliance ..
7.10.26.0
Additional Certificate of Compliance ....................
7.10.26.C(7)
Applications .................................................
7.10.26.C(3)
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LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
NOISE
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Road Vehicle Parks
Generally .................................................. 7.10.21.13
Home Occupations
Use Limitations for Home Occupations .................. 8.01.03
Sea Turtle Protection
Site Development, Standards for
Ground -Level Barriers and Dune Enhancement..... 6.04.02.H.2
NONCONFORMITIES
Development Permits
Airport Zone Permits
Nonconforming Uses Abandoned or Destroyed....... 11.05.08.F
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Nonconforming Lots of Record ............................ 3.01.03.AA.14
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Section
NEWSRACKS (Cont'd.)
Approving authority ........................................
7.10.26.C(2)
Certificate of Compliance, Issuance of ...................
7.10.26.C(5)
Denial; Appeals .............................................
7.10.26.C(8)
Denial of Certificate of Compliance ......................
7.10.26.C(6)
Issuing authority ...........................................
7.10.26.C(1)
Procedure ....................................................
7.10.26.C(4)
Public Works Director
Applications ...............................................
7.10.26.C(3)
Approving authority .....................................
7.10.26.C(2)
Certificate of Compliance, Issuance of ................
7.10.26.C(5)
Issuing authority .........................................
7.10.26.C(1)
Certificate of Compliance Required .........................
7.10.26.13
County Administrator
Appeals......................................................
7.10.26.J
Application and Issuance of Certificate of Compliance
Denial; Appeals ...........................................
7.10.26.C(8)
Emergency Removal ........................................
7.10.26.I
Emergency Removal ..........................................
7.10.26.I
Enforcement...................................................
7.10.26.K
Fees.............................................................
7.10.26.E
Health, Sanitation, Safety and Welfare
Emergency Removal ........................................
7.10.26.I
Installation and Maintenance .............................
7.10.26.G
Purpose and Criteria .......................................
7.10.26.A
Installation and Maintenance ...............................
7.10.26.G
Insurance......................................................
7.10.26.1)
Location and Placement ......................................
7.10.26.F
Public Works Director
Application and Issuance of Certificate of Compliance.
See herein that subject
Purpose and Criteria .........................................
7.10.26.A
Rights Preserved ..............................................
7.10.26.L
NOISE
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Road Vehicle Parks
Generally .................................................. 7.10.21.13
Home Occupations
Use Limitations for Home Occupations .................. 8.01.03
Sea Turtle Protection
Site Development, Standards for
Ground -Level Barriers and Dune Enhancement..... 6.04.02.H.2
NONCONFORMITIES
Development Permits
Airport Zone Permits
Nonconforming Uses Abandoned or Destroyed....... 11.05.08.F
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Nonconforming Lots of Record ............................ 3.01.03.AA.14
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
NOTICE, NOTIFICATION
Section
NONCONFORMITIES (Cont'd.)
Lots of Record, Nonconforming ..............................
10.00.04
Lots of Record Created between July 1, 1984 and
January 9, 1990 ........................................
10.00.04.13
Lots of Record Created Prior to July 1, 1984 ...........
10.00.04.A
Purpose.........................................................
10.00.01
Renovations, Repairs and Restorations
Structures, Nonconforming
Expansions ................................................
10.00.03.0
Ordinary Repair and Maintenance ....................
10.00.03.13
Uses, Nonconforming
11.05.06. D
Expansions ................................................
10.00.02.0
Ordinary Repair and Maintenance ....................
10.00.02.13
Signs and Billboards
Development Code
Nonconforming Signs ......................................
9.05.00
Structures, Nonconforming
Authority to Continue ......................................
10.00.03.A
Expansions ..................................................
10.00.03.0
Ordinary Repair and Maintenance .......................
10.00.03.13
Relocation ...................................................
10.00.03.1)
Termination Upon Damage or Destruction ..............
10.00.03.E
Transportation Systems
Rights -of -Way Determinations and Dedications,
Improvements
Effect of Donation of Property when the Donation
Creates a Nonconforming Property ...............
7.05.03.G
Uses, Nonconforming .........................................
10.00.02
Authority to Continue ......................................
10.00.02.A
Change in Use ..............................................
10.00.02.E
Expansions ..................................................
10.00.02.0
Ordinary Repair and Maintenance .......................
10.00.02.13
Relocation ...................................................
10.00.02.1)
Termination .................................................
10.00.02.F
Abandonment or Discontinuance ......................
10.00.02.F.1
Damage or Destruction ..................................
10.00.02.F.2
NOTICE, NOTIFICATION
Coastal Area Protection
Environmentally Sensitive Resources and Habitats
Protected Species
Notification Requirement .............................
6.02.0l.C.3.b
Development Agreements
Periodic Review .............................................
11.08.08.13
Development Permits
Vegetation Removal Permits
Notice of Vegetation Removal Notification Required
11.05.06.A
Procedures for Issuance of Notice of Vegetation
Removal ..............................................
11.05.06. D
Hearings
Hearing Procedures ........................................
11.00.04.F
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Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:134 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
NOTICE, NOTIFICATION (Cont'd.)
Historic Preservation Designation Process and Procedure
Board of County Commissioners Public Hearing Notice
4.11.06B.8
Government Agencies, Notification ......................
4.11.06B.5
Historical Commission Public Hearing Notice..........
4.11.06B.6
Notification of Owner ......................................
4.11.06B.3
Prompt Decision and Notice Required ...................
4.11.06B.7, 9
Landscaping
Removal of Exotic Vegetation
Exotic Pest Plants; Maintenance and Removal
Lien, Notice of .........................................
7.09.05.B.6
Notice to Property Owner ............................
7.09.05.B.2
Newsracks
Application and Issuance of Certificate of Compliance
Denial of Certificate of Compliance ....................
7.10.26.C(6)
Installation and Maintenance .............................
7.10.26.G
Public Facilities
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
tion
Application Process ......................................
5.07.00.0
Public Notice Requirements .................................
11.00.00 et seq.
See: PUBLIC NOTICE REQUIREMENT
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
11.10.04 et seq.
See: RIGHT-OF-WAY ABANDONMENT AND PLAT
VACATION PROCEDURES
Special Master Review Process
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution -
Special Master Review Process
Conduct of the Special Master Proceeding
Notice and Timing of Special Master Proceeding .
11.14.07.D
Initiation of Special Master Proceeding
Notice of Filing ........................................
11.14.05.0
Stormwater Management
Failure to Maintain Stormwater Management Systems
7.07.08
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Inspections, Reports, Fees, and Monitoring...........
7.10.23.T
Removal of Wireless Telecommunications Towers
and Antennas ........................................
7.10.23.R
Variances
Action of Board of Adjustment ............................
10.01.05
Minimum Yard Setback Standards, Administrative
Variances for the Required
For Mobile Home Parks
Application Procedures ...............................
10.01.14.13.1
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
tion of an Approved Notice of Vegetation
Removal ............................................
6.00.05.0
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Development Code
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
NOTICE, NOTIFICATION (Cont'd.)
Notice of Vegetation Removal Required ............... 6.00.03
Vested Rights
Zoning Conformance ....................................... 11.09.02
Notice of Zoning Conformance ......................... 11.09.02.0
Wellfield Protection
Special Exemptions
Review by the Growth Management Director........ 6.03.06.0
NUISANCES
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
General Provisions .......................................
7.10.18.1)
Development Design and Improvement Standards
7.03.03.F.1
Off -Road Vehicle Parks
Generally ..................................................
7.10.21.13
Home Occupations
Use Limitations for Home Occupations ..................
8.01.03
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Off -Street Site Lighting Requirements and General
Design Standards ...................................
7.09.04.K
Removal of Exotic Vegetation
Exotic Pest Plants; Maintenance and Removal
Nuisances Declared and Prohibited .................
7.09.05.B.1
Variances
Special Provisions where Variance is Sought to Require-
ments of Flood Damage Prevention
Conditions for Variances ................................
10.01.25.F
NUMBER, NUMBERING
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading
General Provisions ....................................
7.03.03.F.1
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading
General Provisions ....................................
7.02.03.E.I
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading
General Provisions ....................................
7.01.03.F.1
Signs and Billboards
Permitting and Exemptions
Exceptions ................................................
9.04.02
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Designation of Minor Site Plan, Major Site Plan, or
Planned Development Site Plan
Major Site Plan ........................................
11.02.02.0
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LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
NUMBER, NUMBERING (Cont'd.)
Minor Site Plan ........................................ 11.02.02.13
Transportation Systems ...................................... 7.05.08 et seq.
See: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
O
OATH, AFFIRMATION, SWEAR OR SWORN
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Guest Homes ................................................ 7.10.04
OBSTRUCTIONS
Development Permits
Airport Zone Permits
Existing Uses .............................................
11.05.08.E
Newsracks
Location and Placement ...................................
7.10.26.F
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Signs Other Than Billboards
Ground Signs ...........................................
9.02.01.D
Prohibited Signs ............................................
9.03.00
OCCUPANT. See: TENANT, OCCUPANT
ODORS. See: DUST, FUMES, ODORS OR SMOKE
OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
County Administrator, Office of the ........................
12.05.00
Jurisdiction, Authority, and Duties ......................
12.05.01
County Engineer, Office of the ..............................
12.08.00
Jurisdiction, Authority, and Duties ......................
12.08.01
Planning and Development Services Director, Office of
the .........................................................
12.06.00
Jurisdiction, Authority, and Duties ......................
12.06.01
Public Works Director, Office of the ........................
12.07.00
Jurisdiction, Authority, and Duties ......................
12.07.01
OFF-ROAD VEHICLE PARKS
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.C.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.10.21
OPEN BURNING
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection
Approval Criteria for Alteration or Development.
6.04.01.0
Sea Turtle Protection
Prohibition of Activities Disruptive to Sea Turtles ....
6.04.02.1)
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
OUTDOOR SHOOTING RANGES
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.13.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.C.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards ....... 7.10.19
U Utilities District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.W.7
OVERLAY ZONES
Airport Overlay Zones ........................................
Section
ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS, ETC.
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution - Special
4.01.00 et seq.
Master Review Process ..................................
11.14.00 et seq.
See: SPECIAL MASTER REVIEW PROCESS
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
11.10.05 et seq.
See: RIGHT-OF-WAY ABANDONMENT AND PLAT
VACATION PROCEDURES
Site Plans
4.02.00 et seq.
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Standards for Site Plan Review
Consistency with Local Ordinances and
4.05.00 et seq.
Comprehensive Plan .............................
11.02.07.A
OUTDOOR SHOOTING RANGES
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.13.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.C.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards ....... 7.10.19
U Utilities District
Conditional Uses ........................................... 3.01.03.W.7
OVERLAY ZONES
Airport Overlay Zones ........................................
4.00.00 et seq.
See: AIRPORT OVERLAY ZONES
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone ......
4.01.00 et seq.
See: HUTCHINSON ISLAND—BUILDING HEIGHT
OVERLAY ZONE
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone .............
4.03.00 et seq.
See: RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PARK—
OVERLAY ZONE
River Park—Community Overlay Zone ....................
4.02.00 et seq.
See: RIVER PARK—COMMUNITY OVERLAY ZONE
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone........................................................
4.05.00 et seq.
See: ST. LUCIE COUNTY RURAL LAND STEWARD-
SHIP AREA OVERLAY ZONE
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)......
4.04.00 et seq.
See: TVC—OVERLAY ZONE (TOWNS, VILLAGES,
COUNTRYSIDE)
OWNER
Bed and Breakfast Residences
Minimum Standards ....................................... 7.10.20.13
Building Code
Moving of Buildings, Improvements by Owner ......... 13.00.01.1)
Conditional Uses
Persons Entitled to Initiate Applications ................ 11.07.02
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Condominium Hotel Unit Uses
Owner's Association ..................................... 7.10.32.13
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Supp. No. 16 LDCiJ38 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:139 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
OWNER (Cont'd.)
Emergency Services Communications
Owner Responsibility ....................................
7.10.25.0
Home Occupations
Use Limitations for Home Occupations ..................
8.01.03
Landscaping
Removal of Exotic Vegetation
Exotic Pest Plants; Maintenance and Removal
Assessment of Cost of Abatement Against Property
Owner ..............................................
7.09.05.13.5
Notice to Property Owner ............................
7.09.05.B.2
Special Master Review Process
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution -
Special Master Review Process
Initiation of Special Master Proceeding
Filing of Request for Relief ...........................
11.14.05.A
Transportation Systems
House and Building Numbers
Duty of Owner for Placement on Existing Structures
Generally ...............................................
7.05.09.B.1
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:139 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
PMUD PLANNED MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT
Area
Standards and Requirements. See herein that subject
CG Commercial, General District
Permitted Uses and Locations. See herein that subject
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
Permitted Uses and Locations. See herein that subject
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:149 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION (Cont'd.)
Conditional Uses
Application Procedures
Planning and Zoning Commission, Hearing and Action
by......................................................
11.07.05.0
Hearings
Hearing Procedures
Reconsideration of Action ...............................
11.00.04.G
Meetings, Hearings, and Procedures .......................
12.02.07
Membership: Appointment, Removal, Terms, Vacancies
and Qualifications .......................................
12.02.02
Office of the Growth Management Director ...............
12.02.05
Powers and Duties ............................................
12.02.01.1
Quorum and Necessary Vote ................................
12.02.06
Secretary.......................................................
12.02.04
PLATS. See: SURVEYS, MAPS AND PLATS
PLAYGROUNDS
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Permitted Accessory Structures and Uses in
Residential, Agricultural, and Planned Unit
Development Districts ................................
8.00.03
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.04.02 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Authorized Uses
Nonresidential Development Uses .....................
7.01.02.13
RF Religious Facilities District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.Y.8
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Billboards .................................................
9.02.02
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ...........................................
4.04.05.H
PLUMBING
Utilities
Water and Sewer Service Systems
Sewage Systems ..........................................
7.08.03.B
PMUD PLANNED MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT
Area
Standards and Requirements. See herein that subject
CG Commercial, General District
Permitted Uses and Locations. See herein that subject
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
Permitted Uses and Locations. See herein that subject
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:149 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
PMUD PLANNED MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT (Cont'd.)
CO Commercial, Office District
Permitted Uses and Locations. See herein that subject
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements
Open Space Requirements
Planned Mixed Use Developments, Open Space
Standards in ......................................
7.04.02.F
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Permitted Uses and Locations. See herein that subject
IL Industrial, Light District
Permitted Uses and Locations. See herein that subject
Landscaping
Removal of Exotic Vegetation
General ....................................................
7.09.05.A
Permitted Uses and Locations ...............................
7.03.02
CG Commercial, General District
High Intensity ............................................
7.03.02.A
Low Intensity .............................................
7.03.02.0
Medium Intensity ........................................
7.03.02.13
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
High Intensity ............................................
7.03.02.A
Low Intensity .............................................
7.03.02.0
Medium Intensity ........................................
7.03.02.13
CO Commercial, Office District
High Intensity ............................................
7.03.02.A
Low Intensity .............................................
7.03.02.0
Medium Intensity ........................................
7.03.02.13
High Intensity ..............................................
7.03.02.A
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
High Intensity ............................................
7.03.02.A
Low Intensity .............................................
7.03.02.0
Medium Intensity ........................................
7.03.02.13
IL Industrial, Light District
High Intensity ............................................
7.03.02.A
Low Intensity .............................................
7.03.02.0
Medium Intensity ........................................
7.03.02.13
Location Criteria ...........................................
7.03.02.1)
Low Intensity ...............................................
7.03.02.0
Medium Intensity ..........................................
7.03.02.13
RM -5 Residential, Multiple -Family - 5 District
High Intensity ............................................
7.03.02.A
Low Intensity .............................................
7.03.02.0
Medium Intensity ........................................
7.03.02.13
RMH-5 Residential, Mobile Home - 5 District
High Intensity ............................................
7.03.02.A
Low Intensity .............................................
7.03.02.0
Medium Intensity ........................................
7.03.02.B
Purpose.........................................................
7.03.01
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:150 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
PMUD PLANNED MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT (Cont'd.)
RM -5 Residential, Multiple -Family - 5 District
Permitted Uses and Locations. See herein that subject
RMH-5 Residential, Mobile Home - 5 District
Permitted Uses and Locations. See herein that subject
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Designation of Minor Site Plan, Major Site Plan, or
Planned Development Site Plan
Planned Development Site Plan .....................
11.02.02.1)
Standards and Requirements ...............................
7.03.03
Area
Dimensional Requirements .............................
7.03.03.0
Minimum Area ...........................................
7.03.03.A
Residential Density and Non -Residential Floor Area
Ratios .................................................
7.03.03.13
Buffers and Landscaping between Uses Within the
Planned Mixed Use Development ...................
7.03.03.H
Dimensional Requirements ................................
7.03.03.0
Lighting......................................................
7.03.03.G
Minimum Area ..............................................
7.03.03.A
Open Space and Landscaping Standards ................
7.03.03.K
Parking and Loading .......................................
7.03.03.F
General Provisions .......................................
7.03.03.F.1
Off Street Parking and Loading ........................
7.03.03.F.2
On Street Parking .......................................
7.03.03.F.3
Phasing ......................................................
7.03.03.L
Planned Mixed Use Development Perimeter Buffers..
7.03.03.I
Public Facilities .............................................
7.03.03.D
Residential Density and Non -Residential Floor Area
Ratios ...................................................
7.03.03.B
Setbacks from Agricultural Land .........................
7.03.03.J
Signs.........................................................
7.03.03.M
Streets, Sidewalks and Other Public Places
Parking and Loading
On Street Parking .....................................
7.03.03.F.3
Traffic and Pedestrian Circulation
Roadway Classification ...............................
7.03.03.E.1
Roadway Design Criteria .............................
7.03.03.E.2
Traffic and Pedestrian Circulation .......................
7.03.03.E
Roadway Classification ..................................
7.03.03.E.1
Roadway Design Criteria ...............................
7.03.03.E.2
Streets, Sidewalks and Other Public Places
Permitted Uses and Locations
Location Criteria .........................................
7.03.02.1)
Standards and Requirements. See herein that subject
Zoning Districts
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:151 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
PMUD PLANNED MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT (Cont'd.)
Use Regulations, Zoning District
Zoning Districts ..........................................
3.01.03.DD
PNRD PLANNED NONRESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements
Open Space Requirements
Planned Nonresidential Developments, Open Space
Standards in ......................................
7.04.02.E
Landscaping
Removal of Exotic Vegetation
General....................................................
7.09.05.A
Permitted Uses ................................................
7.02.02
Commercial or Industrial Classified Land Use Area,
For Properties Located in any .......................
7.02.02.13
Residential or Agricultural Classified Land Use Area,
For Properties Located in any .......................
7.02.02.A
Purpose.........................................................
7.02.01
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.02 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Designation of Minor Site Plan, Major Site Plan, or
Planned Development Site Plan
Planned Development Site Plan .....................
11.02.02.1)
Standards and Requirements ...............................
7.02.03
Dimensional Requirements ................................
7.02.03.13
Landscaping and Natural Features ......................
7.02.03.G
Lighting......................................................
7.02.03.F
Minimum Size ..............................................
7.02.03.A
Open Space Standards .....................................
7.02.03.H
Parking and Loading .......................................
7.02.03.E
General Provisions .......................................
7.02.03.E.1
Off Street Parking and Loading ........................
7.02.03.E.2
On Street Parking .......................................
7.02.03.E.3
Phasing......................................................
7.02.03.I
Public Facilities .............................................
7.02.03.0
Signs.........................................................
7.02.034
Traffic and Pedestrian Circulation .......................
7.02.03.1)
Zoning Districts
Use Regulations, Zoning District
Zoning Districts ..........................................
3.01.03.CC
POLES AND WIRES
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone
Exceptions ...................................................
4.01.05
Signs and Billboards
Prohibited Signs ............................................
9.03.00
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:152 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
POLES AND WIRES (Cont'd.)
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas ............. 7.10.23.P
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
tion of an Approved Notice of Vegetation
Removal ............................................ 6.00.05.0
POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND PROVISIONS
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Swimming Pools
Procedures for Waiver from Fencing Requirement ..
8.00.05.B
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
General Provisions .......................................
7.10.18.1)
Amendments ...................................................
11.06.04 et seq.
See: AMENDMENTS
Appeals
Procedure, Appeals .........................................
11.11.02
Board of Adjustment
Meetings, Hearings, and Procedures .....................
12.04.07
Conditional Uses
Application Procedures ....................................
11.07.05
General Provisions .........................................
11.07.01
Development Agreements
Procedure for Review of a Development Agreement ...
11.08.02
Standards of a Development Agreement
Mandatory Provisions ...................................
11.08.03.A
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Distance Requirements for Alcoholic Beverages........
7.10.11
Waiver Provision for Business Selling or Transfer-
ring Alcoholic Beverages as an Accessory to a
Principal Use ........................................
7.10.11.D
Waiver Provision for Business Selling or Transfer-
ring Alcoholic Beverages as an Accessory to an
Eating Place .........................................
7.10.11.0
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards .................................
7.06.02
Development Permits, Procedure for Obtaining...........
11.05.00 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT PERMITS
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection
Procedure for Review of Applications Pertaining to
Inventory Properties .............................
6.04.01.E
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:153 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
POLLUTANTS. See: CONTAMINANTS AND POLLUT-
ANTS
POOLS. See: SWIMMING POOLS
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:154 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND PROVISIONS (Cont'd.)
Enforcement of Code Provisions ............................
11.13.00 et seq.
See: CODE ENFORCEMENT
Exterior Property Maintenance Code
Conflicting Provisions with Other Codes or Regula-
tions of the County ....................................
13.09.03
Hearing Procedures ...........................................
11.00.04 et seq.
See: HEARINGS
Landscaping
General Provisions .........................................
7.09.03
Local Planning Agency
Organization Rules and Procedures ......................
12.03.03
Newsracks
Application and Issuance of Certificate of Compliance
Procedure .................................................
7.10.26.C(4)
Planning and Zoning Commission
Meetings, Hearings, and Procedures .....................
12.02.07
Public Facilities ...............................................
5.02.00
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for ........................
11.02.00 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
Right-of-way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
11.10.00 et seq.
See: RIGHT-OF-WAY ABANDONMENT AND PLAT
VACATION PROCEDURES
Sea Turtle Protection
Mechanical Beach Cleaning, Standards for
Compliance with County and State Beach -Dune
Preservation Policies ...............................
6.04.02.N.1
Special Master Review Process
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution -
Special Master Review Process
Miscellaneous Provisions ................................
11.14.11
Stormwater Management
Permitting Procedures .....................................
7.07.10
Subdivisions...................................................
11.03.00 et seq.
See: SUBDIVISIONS
Transportation Systems
General Provisions .........................................
7.05.01
Provisions for Access to New Development Activities .
7.05.07
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Procedures for Use of Transferable Development
Rights Credits .......................................
4.04.05.G
Variances.......................................................
10.01.04 et seq.
See: VARIANCES
POLLUTANTS. See: CONTAMINANTS AND POLLUT-
ANTS
POOLS. See: SWIMMING POOLS
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:154 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
PORCHES AND DECKS
Recreational Vehicle Parks
Permitted Specific Uses and Additions ..................
7.10.16.Q
POWERS, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Board of Adjustment ..........................................
12.04.01
Board of County Commissioners ............................
12.00.00
Code Enforcement
Enforcement of Code Provisions
Environmental Control Provisions, Enforcement
Procedures for
Powers of Health Department .......................
11.13.02.M
County Administrator
Office of the County Administrator
Jurisdiction, Authority, and Duties ....................
12.05.01
County Engineer
Office of the County Engineer
Jurisdiction, Authority, and Duties ....................
12.08.01
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Emergency Services Communications
Owner Responsibility ....................................
7.10.25.0
Development Review Committee ............................
12.09.01
Local Planning Agency .......................................
12.03.01
Planning and Development Services Director
Office of the Planning and Development Services
Director
Jurisdiction, Authority, and Duties ....................
12.06.01
Planning and Zoning Commission ..........................
12.02.01.1
Public Works Director
Office of the Public Works Director
Jurisdiction, Authority, and Duties ....................
12.07.01
Special Master Review Process
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution -
Special Master Review Process
Conduct of the Special Master Proceeding
Subpoena Powers of the Special Master............
11.14.07.E
PRESERVATION. See: CONSERVATION AND PRESERVA-
TION
PROCEDURES. See: POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND
PROVISIONS
PROPERTY
Conditional Uses
Standards for Review of Conditional Use Permits
Effect on Adjacent Properties ..........................
11.07.13
Exterior Property Maintenance Code ......................
13.09.01 et seq.
See: EXTERIOR PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
Application Procedures, Petition
Access to Affected Property .............................
11.10.05.1)
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:155 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
PTV (PLANNED TOWN OR VILLAGE) DISTRICT
Approval Process ..............................................
Section
PROVISIONS. See: POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND
PROVISIONS
PRW (PLANNED RETAILIWORKPLACE) DISTRICT
Approval Process ..............................................
3.01.03.GG.3
Purpose.........................................................
3.0 1.03.GG.1
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
7.04.02.G
Designation of Minor Site Plan, Major Site Plan, or
3.01.03.EE.4
Planned Development Site Plan
3.01.03.EE.1
Planned Development Site Plan .....................
11.02.02.D
Standards and Requirements ...............................
3.01.03.GG.2
Allowable Street Types by Transect Zone ...............
3.01.03.GG.2.g
Compatibility ................................................
3.01.03. GG.2.k
Density.......................................................
3.01.03.GG.2.f
Development Standards for Lots .........................
3.01.03.GG.2.d
Landscaping and Natural Features ......................
3.01.03.GG.2.m
Lot Types ....................................................
3.01.03.GG.2.c
Off -Street Parking Regulations ...........................
3.01.03.GG.2.j
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.GG.2.e
Regional Flow Way System ................................
3.01.03.GG.2.1
Signs.........................................................
3.01.03.GG.2.n
Street Network Design ....................................
3.01.03.GG.2.i
Streetscape Standards by Transect Zone ................
3.01.03.GG.2.h
Streets, Sidewalks and Other Public Places
Allowable Street Types by Transect Zone .............
3.01.03.GG.2.g
Street Network Design ..................................
3.01.03.GG.2.i
Streetscape Standards by Transect Zone .............
3.01.03.GG.2.h
Transect Assignment Concepts ...........................
3.01.03.GG.2.b
Transect Zones ..............................................
3.01.03.GG.2.a
Streets, Sidewalks and Other Public Places
Standards and Requirements. See herein that subject
PTV (PLANNED TOWN OR VILLAGE) DISTRICT
Approval Process ..............................................
3.01.03.EE.3
Blocks, Lots and Parcels
Standards and Requirements. See herein that subject
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements
Open Space Requirements
Planned Towns or Villages, Open Space Standards
in ...................................................
7.04.02.G
Phasing of Towns and Villages ..............................
3.01.03.EE.4
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.EE.1
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Designation of Minor Site Plan, Major Site Plan, or
Planned Development Site Plan
Planned Development Site Plan .....................
11.02.02.D
Standards and Requirements ...............................
3.01.03.EE.2
Allowable Street Types by Transect Zone ...............
3.01.03.EE.2.i
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:156 Adopted
May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
PUBLIC FACILITIES
Adequate Public Facilities ...................................
Section
PTV (PLANNED TOWN OR VILLAGE) DISTRICT (Cont'd.)
5.00.03
Blocks, Lots and Parcels
5.00.02
Building Form and Placement on Lots ................
3.01.03.EE.2.f
Development Standards for Lots .......................
3.01.03.EE.2.g
Lot types ..................................................
3.01.03.EE.2.e
Building Form and Placement on Lots ..................
3.01.03.EE.2.f
Civic Spaces and Civic Buildings .........................
3.01.03.EE.2.n
Design Concepts for Towns and Villages ................
3.01.03.EE.2.a
Development Standards for Lots .........................
3.01.03.EE.2.g
Landscaping and Natural Features ......................
3.01.03.EE.2.s
Lot types .....................................................
3.01.03.EE.2.e
Off -Street Parking Regulations ...........................
3.01.03.EE.2.m
Open Space and Countryside Standards ................
3.01.03.EE.2.o
Overall Requirements for Towns and Villages..........
3.01.03.EE.2.b
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.EE.2.h
Regional Flow Way System ................................
3.01.03.EE.2.p
Signs.........................................................
3.01.03.EE.2.t
Standards for each Transect Zone ........................
3.01.03.EE.2.d
Street Network Design ....................................
3.01.03.EE.2.k
Streetscape Standards by Transect Zone ................
3.01.03.EE.2.j
Streets, Sidewalks and Other Public Places
Allowable Street Types by Transect Zone .............
3.01.03.EE.2.i
Street Network Design ..................................
3.01.03.EE.2.k
Streetscape Standards by Transect Zone .............
3.01.03.EE.2.j
Targeted Industries ........................................
3.01.03.EE.2.r
Transect Zones Generally .................................
3.01.03.EE.2.c
Workforce Housing .........................................
3.01.03.EE.2.q
Streets, Sidewalks and Other Public Places
Standards and Requirements. See herein that subject
PUBLIC FACILITIES
Adequate Public Facilities ...................................
5.00.00
Authority and Applicability ...............................
5.00.03
Findings .....................................................
5.00.02
Purpose......................................................
5.00.01
Capacity Information Letters ................................
5.10.00
Application ..................................................
5.10.02
Contents of the Capacity Information Letter.........
5.10.02.0
Generally ..................................................
5.10.02.A
Processing of the application by the Department of
Growth Management ...............................
5.10.02.13
Purpose......................................................
5.10.01
Certificates, Certification
Development Not Subject to The Requirements of
Chapter V, Adequate Public Facilities
Certificate of Capacity Exemption .....................
5.03.03
Fees
Certificate of Capacity Reservation Fee ...............
5.11.03
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:157 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
PUBLIC FACILITIES (Cont'd.)
Level of Service Standards
Certificate of Capacity Based on Developer Funding
of Costs and Expenses for all Required Improve-
ments.................................................
5.06.02
Review of Development Orders. See herein that subject
Variances
Certificate of Capacity Variance .......................
5.09.01
Change of Use .................................................
5.04.00
Decreased impact on public facilities and services .....
5.04.00.13
Definition of "previous use ................................
5.04.00.0
Increased impact on public facilities or services .......
5.04.00.A
Conditional Uses
Standards for Review of Conditional Use Permits
Public Facilities, Adequacy of ..........................
11.07.0
Decisions, Findings and Reviews
Adequate Public Facilities
Findings ...................................................
5.00.02
Development Not Subject to The Requirements of
Chapter V, Adequate Public Facilities
Certificate of Capacity Exemption
Purpose .................................................
5.03.03.A
Fees
Processing Fee ............................................
5.11.02
Level of Service Standards
Required Determination for Roads ....................
5.06.04
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
tion
Application Process ......................................
5.07.00.0
Review of Development Orders ...........................
5.08.00
Definitions.....................................................
5.01.00
Demolition or Termination of Existing Land Use.........
5.05.00
Development Not Subject to The Requirements of Chapter
V, Adequate Public Facilities ...........................
5.03.00
Certificate of Capacity Exemption .......................
5.03.03
Application for Certificate of Capacity Exemption ..
5.03.03.0
Authority to Grant Certificate of Capacity Exemp-
tions ..................................................
5.03.03.13
Purpose....................................................
5.03.03.A
Standard for Issuance of a Certificate of Capacity
Exemption ...........................................
5.03.03.1)
Certificate of Capacity Exemption
Department of Growth Management
Application for Certificate of Capacity Exemption
5.03.03.0
Authority to Grant Certificate of Capacity Exemp-
tions ................................................
5.03.03.13
Standard for Issuance of a Certificate of Capacity
Exemption .........................................
5.03.03.1)
Concurrency Test for Exempt Development .............
5.03.04
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:158 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
PUBLIC FACILITIES (Cont'd.)
Department of Growth Management
Certificate of Capacity Exemption. See within this
subheading that subject
Exempt Permits .............................................
5.03.02
Exemptions ..................................................
5.03.01
Fees.............................................................
5.11.00
Certificate of Capacity Reservation Fee .................
5.11.03
Concurrency Test Fee ......................................
5.11.01
Processing Fee ..............................................
5.11.02
Growth Management Director
Capacity Information Letters
Application
Processing of the application by the Department of
Growth Management .............................
5.10.02.13
Development Not Subject to The Requirements of
Chapter V, Adequate Public Facilities. See herein
that subject
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
tion
Application Process ......................................
5.07.00.0
Review of Development Orders
Requirements for Certificate of Capacity
Submission of Application to Director of Growth
Management ......................................
5.08.02.B
Identification
Capacity Information Letters
Application
Contents of the Capacity Information Letter ......
5.10.02.0
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
tion
Application Process ......................................
5.07.00.0
Review of Development Orders
Requirements for Certificate of Capacity
Application Contents ..................................
5.08.02.0
Level of Service Standards ..................................
5.06.00
Certificate of Capacity Based on Developer Funding of
Costs and Expenses for all Required Improve-
ments....................................................
5.06.02
Establishment of Level of Service Standards ...........
5.06.01
Drainage ..................................................
5.06.01.13
Potable Water .............................................
5.06.01.0
Roads and Intersections .................................
5.06.01.A
Sanitary Sewer ...........................................
5.06.01.1)
Solid Waste ...............................................
5.06.01.E
Measurement of Road Capacity ..........................
5.06.03
Required Determination for Roads .......................
5.06.04
Streets, Sidewalks and Other Public Places
Establishment of Level of Service Standards
Roads and Intersections ..............................
5.06.0l.A
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:159 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Concurrency Test Fee ....................................
Section
PUBLIC FACILITIES (Cont'd.)
Measurement of Road Capacity ........................
5.06.03
Required Determination for Roads ....................
5.06.04
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
5.08.01
Standards and Requirements .............................
7.03.03.1)
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Circulation ..................................................
7.02.03.1)
Standards and Requirements .............................
7.02.03.0
Procedure......................................................
5.02.00
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
5.08.05
tion.........................................................
5.07.00
Applicability of Proportionate Fair Share ...............
5.07.00.A
Application Process .........................................
5.07.00.0
Appropriation of Fair -Share Revenues ...................
5.07.00.G
Determining Proportionate Fair -Share Obligation .....
5.07.00.1)
General Requirements for Proportionate Fair Share ..
5.07.00.13
FDOT Transportation costs, most recent issue of......
5.07.00.b
Impact Fee Credit for Proportionate Fair -Share Mitiga-
5.08.02
tion......................................................
5.07.00.E
Proportionate Fair -Share Agreements ...................
5.07.00.F
PUD Planned Unit Development District
5.08.02.A
Standards and Requirements .............................
7.01.03.1)
Research, Studies and Tests
Development Not Subject to The Requirements of
Chapter V, Adequate Public Facilities
Concurrency Test for Exempt Development ..........
5.03.04
Fees
Concurrency Test Fee ....................................
5.11.01
Review of Development Orders
Concurrency Test .........................................
5.08.03
Review of Development Orders ..............................
5.08.00
Application for Certificate of Capacity ...................
5.08.01
Certificate of Capacity .....................................
5.08.04
Certificates, Certification
Application for Certificate of Capacity ................
5.08.01
Certificate of Capacity ...................................
5.08.04
Effect of a Development Agreement in Conjunction
with a Certificate of Capacity .....................
5.08.05
Requirements for Certificate of Capacity .............
5.08.02
Concurrency Test ...........................................
5.08.03
Effect of a Development Agreement in Conjunction
with a Certificate of Capacity ........................
5.08.05
Amendments to approved development agreements.
5.08.05.0
Effect......................................................
5.08.05.13
General....................................................
5.08.05.A
Requirements for Certificate of Capacity ................
5.08.02
Application Contents ....................................
5.08.02.0
Determination of Completeness and Review .........
5.08.02.1)
General....................................................
5.08.02.A
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:160 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
PUBLIC FACILITIES (Cont'd.)
Submission of Application to Director of Growth
Management ......................................... 5.08.02.13
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Standards for Site Plan Review
Public Facilities, Adequacy of........................ 11.02.07.0
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:160.1 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
RECEPTACLES. See: BINS, CONTAINERS AND OTHER
RECEPTACLES
RECORDS AND REPORTS
Section
RE -1 RESIDENTIAL, ESTATE - 1 DISTRICT (Cont'd.)
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
RE -2 RESIDENTIAL, ESTATE - 2 DISTRICT
12.04.04
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.G.7
Bed and Breakfast Residences
11.08.07
Generally ....................................................
7.10.20.A
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.G.6
Development Design and Improvement Standards
7.10.32.1)
Adult Establishments ......................................
7.10.10
Animals in Residential Districts .........................
7.10.03
Development Permits
11.00.04.1)
Class A Mobile Home Permits
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home
3.01.03.AA.14
Permit Applications .................................
11.05.02.1)
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.G.4
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.G.3
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...........
3.01.03.G.5
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Permitted Uses and Locations
Low Intensity .............................................
7.03.02.0
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.G.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq,
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
RECEPTACLES. See: BINS, CONTAINERS AND OTHER
RECEPTACLES
RECORDS AND REPORTS
Appeals
Procedure, Appeals .........................................
11.11.02.0
Board of Adjustment
Secretary ....................................................
12.04.04
Development Agreements
Recordation and Effectiveness ............................
11.08.07
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Condominium Hotel Unit Uses
Reporting and Inspection ...............................
7.10.32.1)
Hearings
Hearing Procedures
Record of the Hearing ...................................
11.00.04.1)
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Nonconforming Lots of Record ............................
3.01.03.AA.14
Historic Preservation
Designation Procedures
Recording of Designation ............................... 4.11.06B.12
Reports .................................................... 4.11.06B.12
Local Planning Agency
Public Meetings and Records ............................. 12.03.04
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:165 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
RECORDS AND REPORTS (Cont'd.)
Nonconformities
Lots of Record, Nonconforming ...........................
10.00.04
Planning and Zoning Commission
Secretary ....................................................
12.02.04
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
Effect of Recording Resolution of Abandonment .......
11.10.09
Recordation of Resolution .................................
11.10.08
Sea Turtle Protection
General Standards for Coastal Development within
Jurisdictional Boundaries
Protective/Mitigation Measures ........................
6.04.02.G.6
New Beachfront Lighting, Standards for
Beachfront Lighting Approval ..........................
6.04.02.I.9
Site Plans ......................................................
11.02.04 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone........................................................
4.05.05 et seq.
See: ST. LUCIE COUNTY RURAL LAND STEWARD-
SHIP AREA OVERLAY ZONE
Subdivisions...................................................
11.03.01 et seq.
See: SUBDIVISIONS
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Inspections, Reports, Fees, and Monitoring...........
7.10.23.T
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report..
7.10.23.F
Variances
Action of Board of Adjustment ............................
10.01.05
Wellfield Protection
Special Exemptions
Review by the Growth Management Director ........
6.03.06.0
RECREATION. See: PARKS AND RECREATION
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARKS
Buffer...........................................................
7.10.16.L
Central Utilities, Requirement for ..........................
7.10.016.P
Density.........................................................
7.10.16.1)
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards .................................
7.06.02
Generally.......................................................
7.10.16.A
Land Use Compatibility ......................................
7.10.16.13
Landscaping
Applicability.................................................
7.09.02
General Provisions
Requirement for Landscaping Plan ....................
7.09.03.A
Provisions re ................................................
7.10.16.K
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
7.10.16.E
Maximum Lot Coverage ......................................
7.10.16.G
Minimum Park Size ..........................................
7.10.16.0
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:166 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
Section
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARKS (Cont'd.)
Off -Street Parking ............................................
7.10.16.I
Open Space Standards .......................................
7.10.16.J
Parking Pads ..................................................
7.10.16.H
Permitted Specific Uses and Additions .....................
7.10.16.Q
RVP Recreational Vehicle Park District ....................
3.01.03.Z
Setbacks........................................................
7.10.16.F
Site Plan, Requirement for ..................................
7.10.16.0
Specific Accessory Uses ......................................
7.10.16.N
Traffic Circulation ............................................
7.10.16.M
Variances
7.10.16 et seq.
Minimum Yard Setback Standards, Administrative
Variances for the Required
3.01.03.2
For Recreational Vehicle Parks .........................
10.01.14.A
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Permitted Accessory Structures and Uses in
Residential, Agricultural, and Planned Unit
Development Districts ................................
8.00.03
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.10.02 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Additions to Recreational Vehicles, Mobile Homes, and
Travel Trailers .........................................
3.01.03.AA.15
Recreational Vehicle Parks ..................................
7.10.16 et seq.
See: RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARKS
RVP Recreational Vehicle Park District ....................
3.01.03.2
Temporary Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Temporary Uses Permitted ...................
8.02.02
RECYCLING
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Scrap, Waste and Recycling Operations .................
7.10.12
REFUNDS. See: CREDITS AND REFUNDS
REGULATIONS. See: RULES AND REGULATIONS
RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.06.02 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
I Institutional District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.X.2
RF Religious Facilities District ..............................
3.01.03.Y
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Billboards .................................................
9.02.02
Temporary Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Temporary Uses Permitted ...................
8.02.02
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:167 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS (Cont'd.)
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ...........................................
4.04.05.11
RELOCATING. See: MOVING OR RELOCATING
REMOVALS. See: APPOINTMENTS AND REMOVALS
RENOVATIONS, REPAIRS AND RESTORATIONS
Administration and Enforcement
Authorization by a Development Permit Required Prior
to Undertaking Any Development Activity
Exceptions to Requirement of a Final Development
Order .................................................
11.01.03
Coastal Area Protection ......................................
6.02.01 et seq.
See: COASTAL AREA PROTECTION
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Restrictions on Heavy Vehicles in Residential Districts
Delivery and Construction Vehicles; Emergency
Repairs ...............................................
7.10.14.B
Newsracks
Installation and Maintenance .............................
7.10.26.G
Nonconformities...............................................
10.00.02 et seq.
See: NONCONFORMITIES
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SSA Designation
Credit Generation, SSA - Stewardship Credit System
Restoration Incentive Credits ........................
4.05.07.B.4
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Building Codes/Safety Standards ......................
7.10.23.E
Collocation of Wireless Antennas on Existing Towers
and Structures ......................................
7.10.23.K
Variances
Special Provisions where Variance is Sought to Require-
ments of Flood Damage Prevention
General Standards for Issuance ........................
10.01.25.0
RENTING OR LEASING
Bed and Breakfast Residences
Minimum Standards .......................................
7.10.20.13
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Guest Homes ................................................
7.10.04
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
General Requirements for the Location of New Wire-
less Telecommunications Towers on County
Property..............................................
7.10.23.I
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:168 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
RESEARCH, STUDIES AND TESTS
Section
RENTING OR LEASING (Cont'd.)
U Utilities District
3.01.03.A.2
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.W.8
REPAIRS. See: RENOVATIONS, REPAIRS AND RESTORA-
3.01.03.B.2
TIONS
REPORTS. See: RECORDS AND REPORTS
3.01.03.C.2
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PARK—OVERLAY ZONE
Established, Research and Education Park Overlay Zone
4.03.02
Limitations on Land Use Applications .....................
4.03.03
Performance Standards ......................................
4.03.04
Building Height .............................................
4.03.04.A
Landscaping Requirements ...............................
4.03.04.E
Minimum Yard requirements .............................
4.03.04.1)
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements.........
4.03.04.F
Signs.........................................................
4.03.04.13
Purpose and Intent ...........................................
4.03.01
Use Limitations, Research and Education Park Overlay
Zone........................................................
4.03.05
Accessory Uses ..............................................
4.03.05.0
Conditional Uses ...........................................
4.03.05.B
Permitted Uses .............................................
4.03.05.A
Use Limitations .............................................
4.03.05.1)
RESEARCH, STUDIES AND TESTS
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.A.2
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.B.2
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.C.2
Coastal Area Protection
Beach and Dune Protection
Dune Preservation Zone Restriction ...................
6.02.01.E.1
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Emergency Services Communications ...................
7.10.25.1)
Development Permits
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permits
Contents, Application ....................................
11.05.09.13
Wetlands Permits
Contents, Application ....................................
11.05.12.13
Home Occupations
Authorization ...............................................
8.01.02
IH Industrial, Heavy District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.U.2
IL Industrial, Light District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.T.2
Public Facilities ...............................................
5.03.04 et seq.
See: PUBLIC FACILITIES
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:169 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
RESIDENCE, RESIDENTIAL
Section
RESEARCH, STUDIES AND TESTS (Cont'd.)
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone .............
4.03.00 et seq.
See: RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PARK—
OVERLAY ZONE
Sea Turtle Protection
8.00.03
Mechanical Beach Cleaning, Standards for
Coordination of Beach Cleaning Operations with
State -Sanctioned Scientific Studies ...............
6.04.02.N.5
SitePlans ......................................................
11.02.09 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
11.01.03
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
3.01.03.A.7
SRA Designation
3.01.03.A.2
Economic Assessment, SRA .............................
4.05.08.I
Stormwater Management
3.01.03.B.7
Local Jurisdictional Permit Requirements
3.01.03.B.2
Discharge.................................................
7.07.07.A
Towers and Antennas
3.01.03.C.7
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:170 Adopted May 19, 2009
Inspections, Reports, Fees, and Monitoring...........
7.10.23.T
Transportation Systems
Rights -of -Way Determinations and Dedications,
Improvements
Determination of Right -of -Way Alignment ...........
7.05.03.1)
Utilities
Water and Sewer Service Systems
Sewage Systems ..........................................
7.08.03.13
Wellfield Protection
Special Exemptions
Review by the Growth Management Director ........
6.03.06.0
RESIDENCE, RESIDENTIAL
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Fences, Walls, and Hedges ................................
8.00.04
Particular Permitted Accessory Structures and Uses in
Residential, Agricultural, and Planned Unit
Development Districts ................................
8.00.03
Administration and Enforcement
Authorization by a Development Permit Required Prior
to Undertaking Any Development Activity
Exceptions to Requirement of a Final Development
Order.................................................
11.01.03
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.A.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.A.2
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.B.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.B.2
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.C.7
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:170 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
RESIDENCE, RESIDENTIAL (Cont'd.)
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.C.2
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District ................
3.01.03.E
Bed and Breakfast Residences ..............................
7.10.20 et seq.
See: BED AND BREAKFAST RESIDENCES
Coastal Area Protection
Dune Restoration
Developed Sites ..........................................
6.02.01.F.2
Conditional Uses
Conditions on Conditional Use Permits
Reduction in Maximum Residential Density .........
11.07.04.D
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.06.02 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection
Generally ...............................................
6.04.01.13
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District ............
3.01.03.AA
Home Occupations ............................................
8.01.00 et seq.
See: HOME OCCUPATIONS
IL Industrial, Light District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.T.2
Landscaping...................................................
7.09.02 et seq.
See: LANDSCAPING
Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
Specific Accessory Uses ....................................
7.10.17.K
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Purpose......................................................
7.03.01
Standards and Requirements
Residential Density and Non -Residential Floor Area
Ratios.................................................
7.03.03.B
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Permitted Uses
Residential or Agricultural Classified Land Use
Area, For Properties Located in any ..............
7.02.02.A
PRW (Planned Retail/Workplace) District
Standards and Requirements
Permitted Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.GG.2.e
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Standards and Requirements
Permitted Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.EE.2.h
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Purpose ......................................................
7.01.01
R/C Residential/Conservation District .....................
3.01.03.D
RE -1 Residential, Estate - 1 District .......................
3.01.03.F
RE -2 Residential, Estate - 2 District .......................
3.01.03.G
Recreational Vehicle Parks
Permitted Specific Uses and Additions ..................
7.10.16.Q
Specific Accessory Uses ....................................
7.10.16.N
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:171 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Authorized Temporary Signs
Residential Temporary Signs ........................ 9.01.02.F
Site Plans ...................................................... 11.02.02 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Section
RESIDENCE, RESIDENTIAL (Cont'd.)
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
4.05.08.G.2
Use Limitations, Research and Education Park Overlay
4.05.08.G.3
Zone
Accessory Uses ...........................................
4.03.05.0
RF Religious Facilities District
7.05.03 et seq.
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.Y.8
River Park—Community Overlay Zone ....................
4.02.00 et seq.
See: RIVER PARK—COMMUNITY OVERLAY ZONE
RM -5 Residential, Multiple -Family - 5 District ...........
3.01.03.L
RM -7 Residential, Multiple -Family - 7 District ...........
3.01.03.M
RM -9 Residential, Multiple -Family - 9 District ...........
3.01.03.N
RM -11 Residential, Multiple -Family - 11 District ........
3.01.03.0
RM -15 Residential, Multiple -Family - 15 District ........
3.01.03.P
RMH-5 Residential, Mobile Home - 5 District ............
3.01.03.K
RS -2 Residential, Single -Family - 2 District ...............
3.01.03.H
RS -3 Residential, Single -Family - 3 District ...............
3.01.03.I
RS -4 Residential, Single -Family - 4 District ...............
3.01.03.J
RVP Recreational Vehicle Park District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.Z.2
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Billboards .................................................
9.02.02
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs
Authorized Temporary Signs
Residential Temporary Signs ........................ 9.01.02.F
Site Plans ...................................................... 11.02.02 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
RLSA Town Design Criteria .........................
4.05.08.G.2
RLSA Village Design Criteria ........................
4.05.08.G.3
Stormwater Management
Exemptions from Stormwater Permits ...................
7.07.05
Transportation Systems ......................................
7.05.03 et seq.
See: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)......
4.04.00 et seq.
See: TVC—OVERLAY ZONE (TOWNS, VILLAGES,
COUNTRYSIDE)
Utilities
Requirements for all Developments ......................
7.08.01
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit
On -Site Sewage Disposal System, Requirement for.
7.08.04.13
Wellfield Protection
Generally
Applicability ..............................................
6.03.01.13
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCiJ72
Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
RESOLUTIONS. See: ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS,
ETC.
RESOURCE PROTECTION STANDARDS
Environmentally Sensitive Lands ..........................
6.02.00 et seq.
See: ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE LANDS
Floodplain Management .....................................
6.05.01 et seq.
See: FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species ............
6.04.00 et seq.
See: ENDANGERED OR THREATENED SPECIES
Mangrove Protection ..........................................
6.01.00
Reference to State Regulation and Authority...........
6.01.01
Mining..........................................................
6.06.00 et seq.
See: MINING
Vegetation Protection and Preservation ....................
6.00.00 et seq.
See: VEGETATION
Wellfield Protection ...........................................
6.03.00 et seq.
See: WELLFIELD PROTECTION
RESPONSIBILITIES. See: POWERS, DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES
RESTORATIONS. See: RENOVATIONS, REPAIRS AND
RESTORATIONS
RETAIL, RETAILER
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.A.8
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.A.7
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.13.8
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.B.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.C.8
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.C.7
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.E.7
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.E.6
CG Commercial, General District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.5.8
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.S.2
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.Q.7
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.Q.2
IH Industrial, Heavy District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.U.8
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.U.2
IL Industrial, Light District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.T.8
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.T.2
Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
Specific Accessory Uses ....................................
7.10.17.K
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:173 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
RIDING STABLES
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.A.2
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.B.2
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.C.2
RIGHT-OF-WAY ABANDONMENT AND PLAT VACA-
TION PROCEDURES
Access to Water ................................................ 11.10.03
Application Procedures, Petition ............................ 11.10.05
Access to Affected Property ............................... 11.10.05.D
Evidence of Taxes Paid .................................... 11.10.05.G
Federal or State Highway Statement .................... 11.10.05.E
Fees........................................................... 11.10.05.I
Justification................................................. 11.10.054
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:174 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
RETAIL, RETAILER (Cont'd.)
PRW (Planned Retail/Workplace) District .................
3.01.03.GG
RE -1 Residential, Estate - 1 District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.F.7
Recreational Vehicle Parks
Specific Accessory Uses ....................................
7.10.16.N
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
RLSA Town Design Criteria .........................
4.05.08.G.2
RLSA Village Design Criteria ........................
4.05.08.G.3
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Specific Standards, TVC
Other Non -Residential Uses ............................
4.04.04.G
Wellfield Protection
Exemptions
Activities exempt
Retail Sale and Wholesale Activities, Exemptions
for...................................................
6.03.05.A.6
REVIEWS. See: DECISIONS, FINDINGS AND REVIEWS
RF RELIGIOUS FACILITIES DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.Y.8
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.Y.7
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.Y.4
Landscaping Requirements ..................................
3.01.03.Y.6
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.Y.3
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...........
3.01.03.Y.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.Y.2
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.Y.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
RIDING STABLES
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.A.2
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.B.2
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Permitted Uses ............................................. 3.01.03.C.2
RIGHT-OF-WAY ABANDONMENT AND PLAT VACA-
TION PROCEDURES
Access to Water ................................................ 11.10.03
Application Procedures, Petition ............................ 11.10.05
Access to Affected Property ............................... 11.10.05.D
Evidence of Taxes Paid .................................... 11.10.05.G
Federal or State Highway Statement .................... 11.10.05.E
Fees........................................................... 11.10.05.I
Justification................................................. 11.10.054
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:174 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
RIGHT-OF-WAY ABANDONMENT AND PLAT VACA-
TION PROCEDURES (Cont'd.)
Legal Description of Petition Site ........................
11.10.05.A
Location Map ................................................
11.10.05.0
Municipal Resolution ......................................
11.10.05.H
Title, Evidence of ...........................................
11.10.05.F
Type of Petition .............................................
11.10.05.13
Authority and Applicability ..................................
11.10.01
Charges, Fees and Rates
Application Procedures, Petition ..........................
11.10.05.I
Petitions
Exception to Fees Due ...................................
11.10.02.D
Fees........................................................
11.10.02.0
Effect of Recording Resolution of Abandonment ..........
11.10.09
Notice, Notification
Notice of Intent to File Petition to Vacate a Plat.......
11.10.04
Public Hearing of Petitions for Abandonment of County
Rights -of -Way and Public Easements for Drainage
of County Rights -of -Way. See herein that subject
Review of Petition
Review and Notification .................................
11.10.06.A
Notice of Intent to File Petition to Vacate a Plat .........
11.10.04
Ordinances, Resolutions, etc.
Application Procedures, Petition
Municipal Resolution ....................................
11.10.05.11
Effect of Recording Resolution of Abandonment .......
11.10.09
Public Hearing of Petitions for Abandonment of County
Rights -of -Way and Public Easements for Drainage
of County Rights -of -Way
Notice of Adoption of Resolution .......................
11.10.07.F
Recordation of Resolution .................................
11.10.08
Petitions........................................................
11.10.02
Application Procedures, Petition ..........................
11.10.05
Exception to Fees Due .....................................
11.10.02.D
Fees...........................................................
11.10.02.0
Notice of Intent to File Petition to Vacate a Plat.......
11.10.04
Petitioners for Abandonment of Plats ....................
11.10.02.A
Public Hearing of Petitions for Abandonment of County
Rights -of -Way and Public Easements for Drainage
of County Rights -of -Way ..............................
11.10.07
Review of Petition ..........................................
11.10.06
Rights -of -Way, Petitions for Abandonment of...........
11.10.02.B
Public Hearing of Petitions for Abandonment of County
Rights -of -Way and Public Easements for Drainage of
County Rights -of -Way ...................................
11.10.07
Generally....................................................
11.10.07.A
Mailing of Public Hearing .................................
11.10.07.E
Notice, Notification
Notice of Adoption of Resolution .......................
11.10.07.F
Posting of Notice of Public Hearing ...................
11.10.07.1)
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:175 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
RIGHTS -OF -WAYS
Section
RIGHT-OF-WAY ABANDONMENT AND PLAT VACA-
TION PROCEDURES (Cont'd.)
Publication of Notice of Public Hearing ...............
11.10.07.0
Notice of Adoption of Resolution .........................
11.10.07.F
Posting of Notice of Public Hearing ......................
11.10.07.1)
Publication of Notice of Public Hearing .................
11.10.07.0
Time and Place of Hearing ................................
11.10.07.13
Recordation of Resolution ....................................
11.10.08
Review of Petition .............................................
11.10.06
Board of County Commissioners, Review of .............
11.10.06.13
Review and Notification ...................................
11.10.06.A
Search and Investigations .................................
11.10.06.0
RIGHTS -OF -WAYS
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards .................................
7.06.02
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Required Landscaping Adjacent to Public or Private
Street or Road Rights -of -Way ......................
7.09.04.A
Visibility for Landscaping Adjacent to the Public
Rights -of -Way and Points of Access ...............
7.09.04.D
Newsracks on Public Rights -of -Way ........................
7.10.26 et seq.
See: NEWSRACKS
Right-of-way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
11.10.00 et seq.
See: RIGHT-OF-WAY ABANDONMENT AND PLAT
VACATION PROCEDURES
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Billboards .................................................
9.02.02
Prohibited Signs ............................................
9.03.00
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Conditions on Site Plan Approval
Major Site Plan Approvals
Right -of -Way Dedications ..........................
11.02.08.B.5
Minor Site Plan Approvals
Right -of -Way Dedications ..........................
11.02.08.A.5
Special Districts
Right -of -Way Dedication Requirements .................
4.12.10
Transportation Systems
Rights -of -Way Determinations and Dedications,
Improvements ..........................................
7.05.03
U Utilities District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.W.2
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Exemptions ...............................................
6.00.04
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:176
Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
RM -5 RESIDENTIAL, MULTIPLE -FAMILY - 5 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
Section
RIVER PARK—COMMUNITY OVERLAY ZONE
3.01.03.L.7
Eating and Drinking Places; Gasoline and Other Fuel
Sales Services ............................................
4.02.06
Established, River Park Community Overlay Zone.......
4.02.02
Intersection Zone ...........................................
4.02.02.1)
Mid -Block Zone .............................................
4.02.02.2)
Live/Work Units ...............................................
4.02.07
Performance Standards ......................................
4.02.04
Access Management ........................................
4.02.04.0
Buffering and Landscaping ...............................
4.02.04.11
Building Design Standards ................................
4.02.04.K
Building Height .............................................
4.02.04.A
Development Prior to Abutting Property ................
4.02.04.1)
Easements Required to be Dedicated ....................
4.02.04.F
Existing Abutting Uses ....................................
4.02.04.E
Lighting......................................................
4.02.04.1
Maximum Building Size ...................................
4.02.04.B
Offstreet Parking and Loading ...........................
4.02.04.G
Signs.........................................................
4.02.04.J
Purpose and Intent ...........................................
4.02.01
Use Limitations ...............................................
4.02.05
Uses, Rezoning and Land Development Applications ....
4.02.03
RM -5 RESIDENTIAL, MULTIPLE -FAMILY - 5 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.L.8
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.L.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Adult Establishments ......................................
7.10.10
Community Residential Homes ...........................
7.10.07
Development Permits
Class A Mobile Home Permits
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home
Permit Applications .................................
11.05.02.1)
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.L.4
Landscaping Requirements ..................................
3.01.03.L.6
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.L.3
Off -Street Parking Requirements ...........................
3.01.03.L.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.L.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District ........
7.03.02 et seq.
See: PMUD PLANNED MIXED USE DEVELOP-
MENT DISTRICT
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.L.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
RM -7 RESIDENTIAL, MULTIPLE -FAMILY - 7 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................ 3.01.03.M.8
Conditional Uses .............................................. 3.01.03.M.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Adult Establishments ...................................... 7.10.10
Community Residential Homes ........................... 7.10.07
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:177 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
RM -9 RESIDENTIAL, MULTIPLE -FAMILY - 9 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
Section
RM -7 RESIDENTIAL, MULTIPLE -FAMILY - 7 DISTRICT
3.01.03.N.7
(Cont'd.)
Development Permits
7.10.10
Class A Mobile Home Permits
7.10.07
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home
Permit Applications .................................
11.05.02.1)
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.M.4
Landscaping...................................................
3.01.03.M.6
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.M.3
Off -Street Parking Requirements ...........................
3.01.03.M.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.M.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
3.01.03.N.5
Permitted Uses and Locations
3.01.03.N.2
High Intensity ............................................
7.03.02.A
Medium Intensity ........................................
7.03.02.B
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.M.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
3.01.03.N.1
RM -9 RESIDENTIAL, MULTIPLE -FAMILY - 9 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.N.8
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.N.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Adult Establishments ......................................
7.10.10
Community Residential Homes ...........................
7.10.07
Development Permits
Class A Mobile Home Permits
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home
Permit Applications .................................
11.05.02.1)
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.N.4
Landscaping Requirements ..................................
3.01.03.N.6
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.N.3
Off -Street Parking Requirements ...........................
3.01.03.N.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.N.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Permitted Uses and Locations
High Intensity ............................................
7.03.02.A
Medium Intensity ........................................
7.03.02.13
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.N.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
RM -11 RESIDENTIAL, MULTIPLE -FAMILY -11 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................ 3.01.03.0.8
Conditional Uses .............................................. 3.01.03.0.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Adult Establishments ...................................... 7.10.10
Community Residential Homes ........................... 7.10.07
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:178 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
RM -15 RESIDENTIAL, MULTIPLE -FAMILY -15 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
Section
RM -11 RESIDENTIAL, MULTIPLE -FAMILY - 11 DISTRICT
3.01.03.P.7
(Cont'd.)
Development Permits
7.10.10
Class A Mobile Home Permits
7.10.07
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home
Permit Applications .................................
11.05.02.1)
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.0.4
Landscaping...................................................
3.01.03.0.6
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.0.3
Off -Street Parking Requirements ...........................
3.01.03.0.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.0.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
3.01.03.P.5
Permitted Uses and Locations
3.01.03.P.2
High Intensity ............................................
7.03.02.A
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.0.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
3.01.03.P.1
RM -15 RESIDENTIAL, MULTIPLE -FAMILY -15 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.P.8
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.P.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Adult Establishments ......................................
7.10.10
Community Residential Homes ...........................
7.10.07
Development Permits
Class A Mobile Home Permits
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home
Permit Applications .................................
11.05.02.1)
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.P.4
Landscaping...................................................
3.01.03.P.6
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.P.3
Off -Street Parking Requirements ...........................
3.01.03.P.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.P.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Permitted Uses and Locations
High Intensity ............................................
7.03.02.A
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.P.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
RMH-5 RESIDENTIAL, MOBILE HOME - 5 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................ 3.01.03.K.7
Conditional Uses .............................................. 3.01.03.K.6
Density, Area, Yard, and Height Requirements ........... 3.01.03.K.3
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Adult Establishments ...................................... 7.10.10
Development Permits
Class A Mobile Home Permits
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home
Permit Applications ................................. 11.05.02.1)
Landscaping................................................... 3.01.03.K.5
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:179 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
RMH-5 RESIDENTIAL, MOBILE HOME - 5 DISTRICT
(Cont'd.)
Parking......................................................... 3.01.03.K.4
Permitted Uses ................................................ 3.01.03.K.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District ........ 7.03.02 et seq.
See: PMUD PLANNED MIXED USE DEVELOP-
MENT DISTRICT
Purpose......................................................... 3.01.03.K.1
Signs and Billboards .......................................... 9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
ROOFING, ROOFS
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Car Washes, Self -Service .................................. 7.10.22
Security Gatehouse and Access Control Devices ....... 7.10.15
Signs and Billboards
Prohibited Signs ............................................ 9.03.00
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas ............. 7.10.23.P
Rooftop Mounted Telecommunications Towers and
Antennas............................................. 7.10.23.L
RS -2 RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY - 2 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.H.7
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.H.6
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Adult Establishments ......................................
7.10.10
Development Permits
Class A Mobile Home Permits
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home
Permit Applications .................................
11.05.02.1)
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.11.4
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.H.3
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...........
3.01.03.H.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.H.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Permitted Uses and Locations
Low Intensity .............................................
7.03.02.0
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.H.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
RS -3 RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY - 3 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................ 3.01.03.I.7
Conditional Uses .............................................. 3.01.03.I.6
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Adult Establishments ...................................... 7.10.10
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:180 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
RS -4 RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY - 4 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
Section
RS -3 RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY - 3 DISTRICT
3.01.03.J.6
(Cont'd.)
Development Permits
7.10.10
Class A Mobile Home Permits
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home
Permit Applications .................................
11.05.02.1)
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.I.4
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.I.3
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...........
3.01.03.I.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.0 1.03.I.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
3.01.03.J.2
Permitted Uses and Locations
Low Intensity .............................................
7.03.02.0
Purpose.........................................................
3.0 1.03.I.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
9.01.01 et seq.
RS -4 RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY - 4 DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.J.7
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.J.6
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Adult Establishments ......................................
7.10.10
Development Permits
Class A Mobile Home Permits
Procedure for Review of Class A Mobile Home
Permit Applications .................................
11.05.02.1)
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.J.4
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.J.3
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...........
3.01.03.J.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.J.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Permitted Uses and Locations
Low Intensity .............................................
7.03.02.0
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03.J.1
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
RUBBISH. See: SOLID WASTE
RULES AND REGULATIONS
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Dimension and Location Regulations .................... 8.00.02
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations ........................................ 7.10.18
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards ................................. 7.06.02
Environmental Control Board
Regulations and Requirements ........................... 12.01.01
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:181 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
RVP RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARK DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................ 3.01.03.Z.4
Conditional Uses .............................................. 3.01.03.Z.3
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Adult Establishments ...................................... 7.10.10
Permitted Uses ................................................ 3.01.03.Z.2
Purpose......................................................... 3.01.03.Z.1
Signs and Billboards .......................................... 9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
SAFETY. See: HEALTH, SANITATION, SAFETY AND
WELFARE
SALES
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Distance Requirements for Alcoholic Beverages........ 7.10.11
Temporary Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Temporary Uses Permitted ................... 8.02.02
SALVAGE. See: JUNK, SALVAGE AND SCRAP
SANITATION. See: HEALTH, SANITATION, SAFETY
AND WELFARE
SCHOOLS
Development Design and Improvement Standards ....... 7.06.02 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Billboards ................................................. 9.02.02
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:182 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
RULES AND REGULATIONS (Cont'd.)
Exterior Property Maintenance Code
Conflicting Provisions with Other Codes or Regula-
tions of the County ....................................
13.09.03
Local Planning Agency
Organization Rules and Procedures ......................
12.03.03
Stormwater Management
Relationship to Other Stormwater Management Require-
ments....................................................
7.07.02
Variances
Driveway Regulations, Administrative Variances from
Requirements of .......................................
10.01.21
Wellfield Protection
Generally
Administrative Regulations .............................
6.03.01.0
Zoning Districts
Use Regulations, Zoning District .........................
3.01.00
RVP RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARK DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................ 3.01.03.Z.4
Conditional Uses .............................................. 3.01.03.Z.3
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Adult Establishments ...................................... 7.10.10
Permitted Uses ................................................ 3.01.03.Z.2
Purpose......................................................... 3.01.03.Z.1
Signs and Billboards .......................................... 9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
SAFETY. See: HEALTH, SANITATION, SAFETY AND
WELFARE
SALES
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Distance Requirements for Alcoholic Beverages........ 7.10.11
Temporary Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Temporary Uses Permitted ................... 8.02.02
SALVAGE. See: JUNK, SALVAGE AND SCRAP
SANITATION. See: HEALTH, SANITATION, SAFETY
AND WELFARE
SCHOOLS
Development Design and Improvement Standards ....... 7.06.02 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Billboards ................................................. 9.02.02
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:182 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Access
Existing Beach Access Points, Standards for ........... 6.04.02.M
New Beachfront Lighting, Standards for
Lighting for Pedestrian Traffic ......................... 6.04.02.I.8
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:183 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
SCHOOLS (Cont'd.)
Standards for Site Plan Review
School Facilities, Adequacy of ........................
11.02.07.E
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
RLSA Village Design Criteria ........................
4.05.08.G.3
Public Facilities Impact Assessments, SRA
Public Schools ..........................................
4.05.08.H.7
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ...........................................
4.04.05.11
SCRAP. See: JUNK, SALVAGE AND SCRAP
SCREENING
CR Commercial Resort District
Landscaping Requirements
Buffering and Screening ................................
3.01.03.II.a
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Car Washes, Self -Service ..................................
7.10.22
Landscaping...................................................
7.09.04 et seq.
See: LANDSCAPING
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading
Off Street Parking and Loading .....................
7.03.03.F.2
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading
Off Street Parking and Loading .....................
7.02.03.E.2
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading
Off Street Parking and Loading .....................
7.01.03.F.2
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Performance Standards
Landscaping Requirements .............................
4.03.04.E
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Aesthetics .................................................
7.10.23.G
Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas .............
7.10.23.P
SEA TURTLE PROTECTION
Access
Existing Beach Access Points, Standards for ........... 6.04.02.M
New Beachfront Lighting, Standards for
Lighting for Pedestrian Traffic ......................... 6.04.02.I.8
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:183 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:184 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
SEA TURTLE PROTECTION (Cont'd.)
Site Development, Standards for
Location, Alignment, and Placement of Structures..
6.04.02.H.1
Standards for New Beach Access Points .................
6.04.02.L
Application Contents, Sea Turtle Protection Plan (STPP)
6.04.02.F
Preparation and Submission of STPP ...................
6.04.02.F.1
Barriers
Existing Beachfront Lighting, Standards for
Reduction of Indirect Lighting on the Beach .........
6.04.02.J.3
New Beachfront Lighting, Standards for
Vehicular Circulation Improvements and Parking
Areas, Design of .....................................
6.04.02.I.7
Site Development, Standards for
Ground -Level Barriers and Dune Enhancement.....
6.04.02.H.2
Coastal Area Protection
Beach and Dune Protection
Design and/or Positioning of Structures ..............
6.02.01.E.4
Erosion Control
Limitations .............................................
6.02.01.E.6.a
Existing Beach Access Points, Standards for ..............
6.04.02.M
Existing Beachfront Lighting, Standards for ..............
6.04.02.J
Adjustment to Essential Lighting ........................
6.04.02.J.1
Enforcement and Implementation of Mitigation
Measures ...............................................
6.04.02.J.6
High Intensity Lighting, Reduction of ...................
6.04.02.J.2
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:184 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
SERVICE STATIONS (Cont'd.)
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Designation of Minor Site Plan, Major Site Plan, or
Planned Development Site Plan
Minor Site Plan ........................................ 11.02.02.13
SERVICES. See: GOODS AND SERVICES
SETBACKS
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations ........................................
7.10.18.G
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.04.04 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Mining
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
Permit...................................................
6.06.01
Newsracks
Location and Placement ...................................
7.10.26.F
PCS (Planned Country Subdivision) District
Standards and Requirements
Dimensional Requirements .............................
3.01.03.FF.2.d
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Standards and Requirements
Setbacks from Agricultural Land ......................
7.03.034
Traffic and Pedestrian Circulation
Roadway Design Criteria .............................
7.03.03.E.2
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Standards and Requirements
Setbacks from Agricultural Land ......................
7.01.034
Recreational Vehicle Parks ..................................
7.10.16.F
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.02.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
Compact Rural Development Design Criteria .....
4.05.08.G.4
RLSA Town Design Criteria .........................
4.05.08.G.2
Towers and Antennas ........................................
7.10.23 et seq.
See: TOWERS AND ANTENNAS
Transportation Systems
Driveways
Driveway Requirements .................................
7.05.06.0
Variances
Minimum Yard Setback Standards, Administrative
Variances for the Required ...........................
10.01.14
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:189 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:190 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Permitted Accessory Structures and Uses in
Residential, Agricultural, and Planned Unit
Development Districts ................................
8.00.03
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.A.7
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.B.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.C.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Sewage and Septage Treatment Facilities in Agricultural
Zoning Districts ........................................
7.10.13
Development Permits .........................................
11.05.01 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT PERMITS
Floodplain Management .....................................
6.05.01 et seq.
See: FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
Public Facilities
Adequate Public Facilities
Findings...................................................
5.00.02
Level of Service Standards
Establishment of Level of Service Standards
Sanitary Sewer ........................................
5.06.01.1)
RF Religious Facilities District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.Y.8
SitePlans ......................................................
11.02.08 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
Infrastructure Required ..............................
4.05.08.G.6
Public Facilities Impact Assessments, SRA
Wastewater .............................................
4.05.08.H.3
Temporary Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Temporary Uses Permitted ...................
8.02.02
Utilities.........................................................
7.08.01 et seq.
See: UTILITIES
Wellfield Protection
Prohibited Activities .......................................
6.03.03
SHIPPING. See: MAILING OR SHIPPING
SHORELINES. See: BEACHES AND SHORELINES
SHRUBBERY. See: TREES AND SHRUBBERY
SIDEWALKS. See: STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND OTHER
PUBLIC PLACES
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:190 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS (Cont'd.)
Temporary Special Event Promotional Flags, Ban-
ners, and Pennants Requiring a Permit .......
Permitting and Exemptions
Permitting.................................................
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
Standards and Requirements .............................
Purpose.........................................................
R/C Residential/Conservation District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
RE -1 Residential, Estate - 1 District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
RE -2 Residential, Estate - 2 District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Performance Standards ....................................
RF Religious Facilities District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
River Park—Community Overlay Zone
Performance Standards ....................................
RM -5 Residential, Multiple -Family - 5 District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
RM -7 Residential, Multiple -Family - 7 District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
RM -9 Residential, Multiple -Family - 9 District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
RM -11 Residential, Multiple -Family - 11 District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
RM -15 Residential, Multiple -Family - 15 District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
RMH-5 Residential, Mobile Home - 5 District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
RS -2 Residential, Single -Family - 2 District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
RS -3 Residential, Single -Family - 3 District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
Section
9.01.02.0
9.04.01
7.01.03.M
9.00.00
4.03.04.13
4.02.04.H
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:197 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
SITE PLANS
Administration and Enforcement
Authorization by a Development Permit Required Prior
to Undertaking Any Development Activity
Exceptions to Requirement of a Final Development
Order ................................................. 11.01.03
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
General Provisions ....................................... 7.10.18.1)
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:198 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS (Cont'd.)
RS -4 Residential, Single -Family - 4 District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
RVP Recreational Vehicle Park District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
Sea Turtle Protection .........................................
6.04.02 et seq.
See: SEA TURTLE PROTECTION
Setbacks
General Provisions
Billboards .................................................
9.02.02
Signs Other Than Billboards
Ground Signs ...........................................
9.02.01.1)
Nonconforming Signs
Billboards with less than the Minimum Separation.
9.05.00.E
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
RLSA Town Design Criteria .........................
4.05.08.G.2
Temporary Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Temporary Uses Permitted ...................
8.02.02
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas .............
7.10.23.P
General....................................................
7.10.23.0
Transportation Systems ......................................
7.05.02 et seq.
See: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
U Utilities District
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs.
See herein that subject
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
tion of an Approved Notice of Vegetation
Removal ............................................
6.00.05.0
SITE PLANS
Administration and Enforcement
Authorization by a Development Permit Required Prior
to Undertaking Any Development Activity
Exceptions to Requirement of a Final Development
Order ................................................. 11.01.03
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
General Provisions ....................................... 7.10.18.1)
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:198 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:198.1 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
SITE PLANS (Cont'd.)
Appeals
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for. See herein that
subject
Area
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for. See herein that
subject
Board of County Commissioners
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for. See herein that
subject
Comprehensive Plan
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for. See herein that
subject
CR Commercial Resort District
Use Standards
Requirement for Site Plan Review/Approval .........
3.01.03.II.3.d
Density
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for. See herein that
subject
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.10.12 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Development Permits
Class A Mobile Home Permits
Contents, Application ....................................
11.05.02.13
Development Review Committee
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for. See herein that
subject
Growth Management Director
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for. See herein that
subject
Landscaping
Removal of Exotic Vegetation
General ....................................................
7.09.05.A
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for. See herein that
subject
Mining
Extraction Incidental to Development Activities .......
6.06.02
Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
Site Plan, Requirement for ................................
7.10.17.L
Public Works and Improvements
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for. See herein that
subject
Records and Reports
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for. See herein that
subject
Recreational Vehicle Parks
Site Plan, Requirement for ................................
7.10.16.0
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:198.1 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
SITE PLANS (Cont'd.)
Environmental Impact ..................................
11.02.07.F
Fire Protection, Adequacy of ...........................
11.02.07.1)
Public Facilities, Adequacy of ..........................
11.02.07.0
School Facilities, Adequacy of ..........................
11.02.07.E
Submittals for Minor and Major Site Plans .............
11.02.09
Minor and Major Site Plan Requirements ............
11.02.09.A
Surveys, Maps and Plats
Planned Development Site Plans, Submittals for
Final Site Plan for Planned Developments.........
11.02.10.13
Preliminary Site Plan Requirements ...............
11.02.10.A
Submittals for Minor and Major Site Plans ..........
11.02.09
Minor and Major Site Plan Requirements .........
11.02.09.A
Water Supply and Distribution
Conditions on Site Plan Approval. See within this
subheading that subject
Yards and Open Spaces
Major Site Plans, Review of Applications for
Minor Adjustment to Major Site Plans .............
11.02.04.0
Minor Site Plans, Review of Applications for
Minor Adjustment to Minor Development Site
Plans ...............................................
11.02.03.0
Preliminary and Final Site Plans for Planned Develop-
ments, Review of Applications for
Minor Adjustments ....................................
11.02.05.E
Sea Turtle Protection
Management Coordination ................................
6.04.02.13
Sewers and Sewage Disposal
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for. See herein that
subject
Signs and Billboards
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs
Authorized Temporary Signs
Project Marketing Signs ..............................
9.01.02.1)
Stormwater Management
Applicability to Existing Development
Site Design, Change in ..................................
7.07.09.0
Surveys, Maps and Plats
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for. See herein that
subject
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report..
7.10.23.F
Transportation Systems
Provisions for Access to New Development Activities
Paving Requirements for Roads that Access Develop-
ments Requiring Site Plan Approval that Utilize
Unpaved Public and Private Roads for Access..
7.05.07.B
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:203 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
SITE PLANS (Cont'd.)
Water Supply and Distribution
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for. See herein that
subject
Yards and Open Spaces
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for. See herein that
subject
SMOKE. See: DUST, FUMES, ODORS OR SMOKE
SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS. See: CIVIC, SOCIAL AND
FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS
SOIL EROSION AND SEDIMENTATION CONTROL
Coastal Area Protection
Beach and Dune Protection
Erosion Control ...........................................
6.02.01.E.6
Sea Turtle Protection
Mechanical Beach Cleaning, Standards for .............
6.04.02.N
Stormwater Management
Intent and Purpose .........................................
7.07.01
Local Jurisdictional Permit Requirements
Requirement for Dry Detention/Retention............
7.07.07.0
Variances
Special Provisions where Variance is Sought to Require-
ments of Flood Damage Prevention
General Standards for Issuance ........................
10.01.25.0
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
tion of an Approved Notice of Vegetation
Removal ............................................
6.00.05.0
Wetlands Protection
Criteria for Granting Permits .............................
6.02.03.1)
SOLID WASTE
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements
Requirements
Filled Land ............................................. 7.04.01.1)
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Loading Spaces and Waste Receptacles, Off -Street.. 7.09.04.F
Public Facilities
Adequate Public Facilities
Findings ................................................... 5.00.02
Level of Service Standards
Establishment of Level of Service Standards ........ 5.06.01.E
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:204 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
SOLID WASTE (Cont'd.)
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:204.1 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
STADIUMS AND ARENAS
Section
ST. LUCIE COUNTY RURAL LAND STEWARDSHIP
AREA OVERLAY ZONE (Cont'd.)
3.01.03.5.7
Designation Report ......................................
4.05.07.D.5
Pre -application Conference with County Staff .......
4.05.07.D.1
Review by County Reviewing Agencies ...............
4.05.07.D.4
Submittal and Processing Fees, Application Package
4.05.07.D.2
Stewardship Credits ..........................................
4.05.05
Allocation of Stewardship Credits ........................
4.05.05.E
Creation of Stewardship Credits .........................
4.05.05.0
Density and Use ............................................
4.05.05.13
Establishment of a Stewardship Credit Database .....
4.05.05.A
Transfer of Stewardship Credits .........................
4.05.05.1)
Streets, Sidewalks and Other Public Places
13.08.03
SRA Designation. See herein that subject
STADIUMS AND ARENAS
CG Commercial, General District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.5.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Off -Street Parking and Loading
Performance Standards .................................
7.06.02
I Institutional District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.X.7
RF Religious Facilities District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.Y.8
STANDARD HOUSING CODE
Administration................................................
13.08.02
Adopted.........................................................
13.08.01
Enforcement...................................................
13.08.03
STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS
Amendments
Amendments to the Code and Official Zoning Atlas
Standards of Review .....................................
11.06.03
Bed and Breakfast Residences
Minimum Standards .......................................
7.10.20.13
Conditional Uses
Standards for Review of Conditional Use Permits .....
11.07.03
CR Commercial Resort District
Use Standards ..............................................
3.01.03.II.3
Development Agreements
Standards of a Development Agreement ................
11.08.03
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.00.00 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Development Permits
Airport Zone Permits
Standards for Review ....................................
11.05.08.1)
Class A Mobile Home Permits
Standards for Review ....................................
11.05.02.E
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:209 Adopted
May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS (Cont'd.)
Floodplain Management .....................................
6.05.01 et seq.
See: FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
Landscaping...................................................
7.09.04 et seq.
See: LANDSCAPING
Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
Open Space Standards .....................................
7.10.17.G
PCS (Planned Country Subdivision) District
Standards and Requirements .............................
3.01.03.FF.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Standards and Requirements .............................
7.03.03
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Standards and Requirements .............................
7.02.03
PRW (Planned Retail/Workplace) District
Standards and Requirements .............................
3.01.03.GG.2
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Standards and Requirements .............................
3.01.03.EE.2
Public Facilities
Development Not Subject to The Requirements of
Chapter V, Adequate Public Facilities
Certificate of Capacity Exemption
Standard for Issuance of a Certificate of Capacity
Exemption .........................................
5.03.03.D
Level of Service Standards ................................
5.06.00
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Standards and Requirements .............................
7.01.03
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Performance Standards ....................................
4.03.04
Resource Protection Standards ..............................
6.00.00 et seq.
See: RESOURCE PROTECTION STANDARDS
River Park—Community Overlay Zone
Performance Standards ....................................
4.02.04
Sea Turtle Protection .........................................
6.04.02 et seq.
See: SEA TURTLE PROTECTION
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Standards for Site Plan Review ........................
11.02.07
Special Master Review Process
Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution -
Special Master Review Process
Standards of Conduct for Parties and Participants..
11.14.03
Standard Housing Code ......................................
13.08.01 et seq.
See: STANDARD HOUSING CODE
Subdivisions
Platting, Procedure for
Minor Replats and Lot Splits, Procedure for
Standards for Review .................................
11.03.04.D
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Building Codes/Safety Standards ......................
7.10.23.E
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:210 Adopted
May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Section
STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS (Cont'd.)
3.01.03.B.7
Transportation Systems
Internal Trip Capture Standards .........................
7.05.10
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Specific Standards, TVC...................................
4.04.04
Utilities
7.10.18.J
Sewage Treatment Plants, Wastewater Reuse Standards
7.10.18.E
for........................................................
7.08.05
Variances.......................................................
10.01.02 et seq.
See: VARIANCES
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
8.01.03
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
3.01.03.Y.8
Vegetation Protection Standards During the Dura-
tion of an Approved Notice of Vegetation
Removal ............................................
6.00.05.0
Vested Rights
Provisions re
Standards for Vested Rights ............................
11.09.03.D
STORAGE
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:211 Adopted May 19, 2009
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Permitted Accessory Structures and Uses in
Residential, Agricultural, and Planned Unit
Development Districts ................................
8.00.03
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.A.7
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.B.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.C.7
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
Storage Area Regulations ...............................
7.10.18.J
Temporary Use and Structure ..........................
7.10.18.E
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.06.02 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Home Occupations
Use Limitations for Home Occupations ..................
8.01.03
RF Religious Facilities District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.Y.8
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas .............
7.10.23.P
Transportation Systems
Sidewalks and Bikeways
Bicycle Racks .............................................
7.05.04.0
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:211 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
STORAGE (Cont'd.)
Wellfield Protection
Exemptions
Nonresidential activities exempt .......................
6.03.05.13
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
Applicability to Existing Development .....................
7.07.09
Change in Use ..............................................
7.07.09.13
Expansion of Total Area ...................................
7.07.09.A
Site Design, Change in ....................................
7.07.09.0
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Area, Yard, Height, and Open Space Requirements
Open Space Requirements
General Guidelines ....................................
7.04.02.13
Development Permits
Stormwater Permits ........................................
11.05.07
Exemptions from Stormwater Permits .....................
7.07.05
Failure to Maintain Stormwater Management Systems.
7.07.08
Health, Sanitation, Safety and Welfare
Exemptions from Stormwater Permits ...................
7.07.05
Failure to Maintain Stormwater Management Systems
7.07.08
Intent and Purpose .........................................
7.07.01
Intent and Purpose ...........................................
7.07.01
Intent........................................................
7.07.01.A
Purpose ......................................................
7.07.01.13
Licenses and Permits
Exemptions from Stormwater Permits ...................
7.07.05
Local Jurisdictional Permit Requirements ..............
7.07.07
Permitting Procedures .....................................
7.07.10
Local Jurisdictional Permit Requirements .................
7.07.07
Discharge ....................................................
7.07.07.A
Local Government Criteria ................................
7.07.07.13
Requirement for Dry Detention/Retention ..............
7.07.07.0
Mining
Extraction Incidental to Development Activities .......
6.06.02
PCS (Planned Country Subdivision) District
Standards and Requirements
Regional Flow Way System .............................
3.01.03.FF.2.e
Permitting Procedures ........................................
7.07.10
Prohibitions....................................................
7.07.04
PRW (Planned Retail/Workplace) District
Standards and Requirements
Regional Flow Way System .............................
3.01.03.GG.2.1
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District
Standards and Requirements
Regional Flow Way System .............................
3.01.03.EE.2.p
Public Facilities
Adequate Public Facilities
Findings ...................................................
5.00.02
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:212 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES
Section
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT (Cont'd.)
Relationship to Other Stormwater Management Require-
7.10.14
ments......................................................
7.07.02
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
3.01.03.AA.7.e
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
4.01.05
Infrastructure Required ..............................
4.05.08.G.6
Public Facilities Impact Assessments, SRA...........
4.05.08.H.5
Status of Previous Approvals ................................
7.07.03
Stormwater Management Requirements ...................
7.07.06
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
7.10.26 et seq.
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report..
7.10.23.F
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)......
4.04.04 et seq.
See: TVC—OVERLAY ZONE (TOWNS, VILLAGES,
COUNTRYSIDE)
3.01.03.FF.2.g
Variances
7.03.02 et seq.
Stormwater Management, Administrative Variances
from Requirements of .................................
10.01.17
Vegetation
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:213 Adopted May 19, 2009
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Exemptions ...............................................
6.00.04
Wellfield Protection
Prohibited Activities .......................................
6.03.03
Wetlands Protection
Exemptions ..................................................
6.02.03.G
STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES
Development Design and Improvement Standards
Restrictions on Heavy Vehicles in Residential Districts
7.10.14
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Residential Densities
Credit for Payment of Roads Impact Fee .............
3.01.03.AA.7.e
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone
Exceptions ...................................................
4.01.05
Jenkins Road Area Plan Special District ..................
4.12.00 et seq.
See: JENKINS ROAD AREA PLAN SPECIAL
DISTRICT
Landscaping ...................................................
7.09.03 et seq.
See: LANDSCAPING
Newsracks.....................................................
7.10.26 et seq.
See: NEWSRACKS
PCS (Planned Country Subdivision) District
Standards and Requirements
Street Network ...........................................
3.01.03.FF.2.g
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District ........
7.03.02 et seq.
See: PMUD PLANNED MIXED USE DEVELOP-
MENT DISTRICT
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:213 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES
(Cont'd.)
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading
On Street Parking .....................................
7.02.03.E.3
PRW (Planned Retail/Workplace) District .................
3.01.03.GG
et seq.
See: PRW (PLANNED RETAIL/WORKPLACE)
DISTRICT
PTV (Planned Town or Village) District ...................
3.01.03.EE
et seq.
See: PTV (PLANNED TOWN OR VILLAGE) DISTRICT
Public Facilities ...............................................
5.06.01 et seq.
See: PUBLIC FACILITIES
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Standards and Requirements
Parking and Loading
On Street Parking .....................................
7.01.03.F.3
River Park—Community Overlay Zone
Performance Standards
Pedestrian Access ........................................
4.02.04.D
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Billboards .................................................
9.02.02
Prohibited Signs ............................................
9.03.00
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone........................................................
4.05.08.G et seq.
See: ST. LUCIE COUNTY RURAL LAND STEWARD-
SHIP AREA OVERLAY ZONE
Stormwater Management
Local Jurisdictional Permit Requirements
Local Government Criteria .............................
7.07.07.13
Transportation Systems ......................................
7.05.00 et seq.
See: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Performance Monitoring
Future Street Network ..................................
4.04.07.D
Specific Standards, TVC
Regional ...................................................
4.04.04.B
Utilities
Water and Sewer Service Systems
Sewage Systems ..........................................
7.08.03.B
STUDIES. See: RESEARCH, STUDIES AND TESTS
SUBDIVISIONS
Construction
Platting, Procedure for. See herein that subject
Decisions, Findings and Reviews
Platting, Procedure for. See herein that subject
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:214 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
SUBDIVISIONS (Cont'd.)
Landscaping
Applicability.................................................
7.09.02
General Provisions
Requirement for Landscaping Plan ....................
7.09.03.A
PCS (Planned Country Subdivision) District ..............
3.01.03.FF
Platting, Procedure for
Construction
Construction Plans and Preliminary Record Plats,
Review of .............................................
11.03.02
Final Record Plat, Review of
As -Built Construction Plans, Procedure for Review
of....................................................
11.03.03.0
Developers Option to Record a Final Record Plat
Prior to the Completion of Construction.......
11.03.03.B
Requirements, Platting
Dry Model Construction ..............................
11.03.0l.0
Construction Plans and Preliminary Record Plats,
Reviewof ...............................................
11.03.02
Application Contents ....................................
11.03.02.13
Filing with County Engineer ...........................
11.03.02.A
Procedures for Review by the County Engineer .....
11.03.02.0
Decisions, Findings and Reviews
Construction Plans and Preliminary Record Plats,
Review of .............................................
11.03.02
Final Record Plat, Review of ...........................
11.03.03
Minor Replats and Lot Splits, Procedure for
Procedure for Review .................................
11.03.04.0
Standards for Review .................................
11.03.04.D
Final Record Plat, Review of ..............................
11.03.03
As -Built Construction Plans, Procedure for Review
of......................................................
11.03.03.0
Covenants, Restrictions, Reservations ................
11.03.03.F
Developers Option to Record a Final Record Plat
Prior to the Completion of Construction .........
11.03.03.13
Generally ..................................................
11.03.03.A
Procedure for Review of Final Record Plat ...........
11.03.03.D
Required Certifications of the Record Plat ...........
11.03.03.E
Minor Replats and Lot Splits, Procedure for............
11.03.04
Application Contents ....................................
11.03.04.13
Generally ..................................................
11.03.04.A
Procedure for Review ....................................
11.03.04.0
Recordation ...............................................
11.03.04.E
Restriction ................................................
11.03.04.F
Standards for Review ....................................
11.03.04.D
Records and Reports
Construction Plans and Preliminary Record Plats,
Review of .............................................
11.03.02
Final Record Plat, Review of ...........................
11.03.03
Minor Replats and Lot Splits, Procedure for .........
11.03.04.E
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:215 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
SURFACE WATER
Coastal Area Protection
Environmentally Sensitive Resources and Habitats
Groundwater and Surface Water ....................... 6.02.01.C.2
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:216 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
SUBDIVISIONS (Cont'd.)
Requirements, Platting
Digital Plat Submissions, Requirements for .......
11.03.01.E
Requirements, Platting ....................................
11.03.01
Digital Plat Submissions, Requirements for..........
11.03.01.E
Dry Model Construction .................................
11.03.0l.0
Exceptions to Platting ...................................
11.03.01.8
Generally ..................................................
11.03.01.A
Geodetic Control, Requirements for ...................
11.03.01.1)
Policies, Procedures and Provisions
Platting, Procedure for. See herein that subject
Records and Reports
Platting, Procedure for. See herein that subject
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone
Use Limitations, Research and Education Park Overlay
Zone
Use Limitations ..........................................
4.03.05.D
Right-of-way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
11.10.00 et seq.
See: RIGHT-OF-WAY ABANDONMENT AND PLAT
VACATION PROCEDURES
River Park—Community Overlay Zone ....................
4.02.00 et seq.
See: RIVER PARK—COMMUNITY OVERLAY ZONE
Surveys, Maps and Plats
Platting, Procedure for. See herein that subject
Transportation Systems
Streets.......................................................
7.05.02
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Specific Standards, TVC
Inside the Urban Service Boundary, Residential
Subdivisions .........................................
4.04.04.E
Residential Subdivisions Outside the Urban Service
Boundary .............................................
4.04.04.D
Utilities.........................................................
7.08.01 et seq.
See: UTILITIES
SUBPOENAS. See: WRITS, WARRANTS AND OTHER
LEGAL PROCESSES
SUITS, ACTIONS AND OTHER LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Appeals
Procedure, Appeals
Effect of Filing an Appeal ...............................
11.11.02.8
SUPPLIES. See: MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES
SURETY BONDS. See: BONDS, SURETY OR
PERFORMANCE
SURFACE WATER
Coastal Area Protection
Environmentally Sensitive Resources and Habitats
Groundwater and Surface Water ....................... 6.02.01.C.2
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:216 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
SURFACE WATER (Cont'd.)
Mining
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
Permit................................................... 6.06.01
Stormwater Management
Intent and Purpose ......................................... 7.07.01
SURFACING. See: PAVING OR SURFACING
SURVEYS, MAPS AND PLATS
Development Permits .........................................
11.05.02 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT PERMITS
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection
Generally ...............................................
6.04.01.B
Historic Preservation Designation Process and Procedure
County Local Register Map ...............................
4.11.06B.13
Mining
Excavation or Mining Resulting in the Creation of a
Water Body .............................................
6.06.03
Newsracks
Application and Issuance of Certificate of Compliance
Procedure .................................................
7.10.26.C(4)
Public Facilities
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
tion
Application Process ......................................
5.07.00.0
Review of Development Orders
Requirements for Certificate of Capacity
Application Contents ..................................
5.08.02.0
Right-of-way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
11.10.00 et seq.
See: RIGHT-OF-WAY ABANDONMENT AND PLAT
VACATION PROCEDURES
Sea Turtle Protection
Application Contents, Sea Turtle Protection Plan (STPP)
Preparation and Submission of STPP .................
6.04.02.F.1
General Standards for Coastal Development within
Jurisdictional Boundaries
Protective/Mitigation Measures ........................
6.04.02.G.6
Site Plans ......................................................
11.02.09 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
Subdivisions...................................................
11.03.00 et seq.
See: SUBDIVISIONS
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Supplemental Review Information for Wireless
Telecommunications Tower Conditional Use
Applications ..........................................
7.10.23.Q
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:217 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
SURVEYS, MAPS AND PLATS (Cont'd.)
Transportation Systems
Rights -of -Way Determinations and Dedications,
Improvements
Determination of Right -of -Way Alignment ........... 7.05.03.D
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Performance Monitoring
Future Street Network .................................. 4.04.07.D
Transferable Development Rights
Procedures for Use of Transferable Development
Rights Credits ....................................... 4.04.05.G
Utilities
Water and Sewer Service Systems
Sewage Systems ..........................................
7.08.03.13
Wellfield Protection
Special Exemptions
Review by the Growth Management Director ........
6.03.06.0
Zone of Protection Maps ...................................
6.03.02
SWALES. See: BERMS AND SWALES
SWEAR OR SWORN. See: OATH, AFFIRMATION, SWEAR
OR SWORN
SWIMMING POOLS
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Permitted Accessory Structures and Uses in
Residential, Agricultural, and Planned Unit
Development Districts ................................
8.00.03
Provisions re ................................................
8.00.05
Development Permits
Mining Permits
Requirement for Permit; Exemptions ..................
11.05.11.A
RF Religious Facilities District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.Y.8
Stormwater Management
Exemptions from Stormwater Permits ...................
7.07.05
SYNAGOGUES. See: RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS
T
TAMPER. See: ALTER OR TAMPER
TAXATION
Historic Preservation
Tax Exemptions for Rehabilitations to Designated
Properties............................................... 4.11.17
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
Application Procedures, Petition
Evidence of Taxes Paid .................................. 11.10.05.G
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:218 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
TEMPORARY BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND USES
Airport Industrial Park
Special Regulations
Temporary Use and Structure ..........................
7.10.18.E
Authorization..................................................
8.02.01
Particular Temporary Uses Permitted .....................
8.02.02
Signs and Billboards
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs
9.01.00
TENANT, OCCUPANT
Bed and Breakfast Residences
Minimum Standards .......................................
7.10.20.13
Home Occupations
Use Limitations for Home Occupations ..................
8.01.03
TESTIMONY. See: EVIDENCE, TESTIMONY AND WIT-
NESSES
TESTS. See: RESEARCH, STUDIES AND TESTS
THREATENED SPECIES. See: ENDANGERED OR
THREATENED SPECIES
TIEDOWNS. See: ANCHORS AND TIEDOWNS
TITLES AND DEEDS
Endangered or Threatened Species
Habitat of Endangered or Threatened Species
Native Upland Habitat Protection
Approval Criteria for Alteration or Development.
6.04.01.0
Determination of Sufficiency .........................
6.04.01.G
Right -of -Way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures
Application Procedures, Petition
Title, Evidence of .........................................
11.10.05.F
Subdivisions
Platting, Procedure for
Final Record Plat, Review of
Covenants, Restrictions, Reservations ..............
11.03.03.F
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Transferable Development Rights
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ...........................................
4.04.05.1-1
Procedures for Use of Transferable Development
Rights Credits .......................................
4.04.05.G
TOWERS AND ANTENNAS
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.A.7
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.B.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.C.2
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:219 Adopted
May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
TOWERS AND ANTENNAS (Cont'd.)
AR -1 Agricultural, Residential - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.E.6
Buildings and Building Regulations
Telecommunications Tower Siting. See herein that
subject
CG Commercial, General District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.5.7
Charges, Fees and Rates
Telecommunications Tower Siting. See herein that
subject
CN Commercial, Neighborhood District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.Q.7
CO Commercial, Office District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.R.7
CPUB Conservation - Public District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.HH.7
Health, Sanitation, Safety and Welfare
Telecommunications Tower Siting. See herein that
subject
Height
Telecommunications Tower Siting. See herein that
subject
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.AA.6
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone
Exceptions...................................................
4.01.05
I Institutional District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.X.7
IH Industrial, Heavy District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.U.2
IL Industrial, Light District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.T.2
IX Industrial, Extraction District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.V.7
Lighting, Lights
Telecommunications Tower Siting. See herein that
subject
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Permitted Uses
Commercial or Industrial Classified Land Use Area,
For Properties Located in any .....................
7.02.02.B
Residential or Agricultural Classified Land Use
Area, For Properties Located in any ..............
7.02.02.A
R/C Residential/Conservation District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.D.7
RE -1 Residential, Estate - 1 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.F.6
RE -2 Residential, Estate - 2 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.G.6
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:220 Adopted
May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
TOWERS AND ANTENNAS (Cont'd.)
RF Religious Facilities District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.Y.7
RM -5 Residential, Multiple -Family - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.L.7
RM -7 Residential, Multiple -Family - 7 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.M.7
RM -9 Residential, Multiple -Family - 9 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.N.7
RM -11 Residential, Multiple -Family - 11 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.0.7
RM -15 Residential, Multiple -Family - 15 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.P.7
RMH-5 Residential, Mobile Home - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.K.6
RS -2 Residential, Single -Family - 2 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.11.6
RS -3 Residential, Single -Family - 3 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.I.6
RS -4 Residential, Single -Family - 4 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.J.6
RVP Recreational Vehicle Park District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.Z.3
Setbacks
Telecommunications Tower Siting. See herein that
subject
Signaling Devices
Telecommunications Tower Siting. See herein that
subject
Telecommunications Tower Siting
Aesthetics....................................................
7.10.23.G
Applications for New Wireless Telecommunications
Towers and Antennas .................................
7.10.23.1)
Amateur Radio Antennas and Support Apparatus
Utilized by FCC Licensed Amateur Radio Opera-
tor.......................................................
7.10.23.0
Building Codes/Safety Standards ........................
7.10.23.E
Buildings and Building Regulations
Building Codes/Safety Standards ......................
7.10.23.E
Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas .............
7.10.23.P
Initial Wireless Telecommunications Antennas on
Existing Structures .................................
7.10.23.J
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report..
7.10.23Y
Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas ................
7.10.23.P
Charges, Fees and Rates
General Requirements for the Location of New Wire-
less Telecommunications Towers on County
Property ..............................................
7.10.23.I
Inspections, Reports, Fees, and Monitoring...........
7.10.23.T
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:221 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
TOWERS AND ANTENNAS (Cont'd.)
Supplemental Review Information for Wireless
Telecommunications Tower Conditional Use
Applications ..........................................
7.10.23.Q
Collocation of Wireless Antennas on Existing Towers
and Structures .........................................
7.10.23.K
Definitions...................................................
7.10.23.B
General......................................................
7.10.23.0
General Requirements for the Location of New Wire-
less Telecommunications Towers on County Property
7.10.23.I
Health, Sanitation, Safety and Welfare
Building Codes/Safety Standards ......................
7.10.23.E
Inspections, Reports, Fees, and Monitoring...........
7.10.23.T
Purpose....................................................
7.10.23.A
Height
Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas .............
7.10.23.P
General....................................................
7.10.23.0
Initial Wireless Telecommunications Antennas on
Existing Structures .................................
7.10.23.J
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report..
7.10.23.F
Separation/Height........................................
7.10.23.0
Supplemental Review Information for Wireless
Telecommunications Tower Conditional Use
Applications ..........................................
7.10.23.Q
Initial Wireless Telecommunications Antennas on Exist-
ing Structures ..........................................
7.10.234
Inspections, Reports, Fees, and Monitoring .............
7.10.23.T
Lighting, Lights
Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas .............
7.10.23.P
General....................................................
7.10.23.0
Initial Wireless Telecommunications Antennas on
Existing Structures .................................
7.10.23.J
Penalties.....................................................
7.10.23.V
Pre -Existing Telecommunications Towers ...............
7.10.23.5
Purpose......................................................
7.10.23.A
Removal of Wireless Telecommunications Towers and
Antennas ...............................................
7.10.23.11
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report ....
7.10.23.F
Rooftop Mounted Telecommunications Towers and
Antennas...............................................
7.10.23.L
Security Fund ...............................................
7.10.23.H
Separation/Height..........................................
7.10.23.0
Setbacks
Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas .............
7.10.23.P
General....................................................
7.10.23.0
Provisions re ..............................................
7.10.23.N
Requirement of Site Plan and Engineering Report..
7.10.23.F
Supplemental Review Information for Wireless
Telecommunications Tower Conditional Use
Applications ..........................................
7.10.23.Q
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi222 Adopted
May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
TOWERS AND ANTENNAS (Cont'd.)
Signaling Devices
Buildings and Equipment Storage Areas .............
7.10.23.P
General ....................................................
7.10.23.0
Initial Wireless Telecommunications Antennas on
Existing Structures .................................
7.10.23.J
Supplemental Review Information for Wireless Telecom-
munications Tower Conditional Use Applications.
7.10.23.Q
Wireless Telecommunications. See within this subhead-
ing specific subjects
U Utilities District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.W.2
Wireless Telecommunications
Telecommunications Tower Siting. See herein that
subject
TOXIC, TOXINS
Utilities
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit
On -Site Sewage Disposal System, Requirement for.
7.08.04.B
TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
Conditional Uses
Conditions on Conditional Use Permits
Traffic Control Devices ...................................
11.07.04.A
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.06.00 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Environmentally Sensitive Lands
Regulation of Motorized Vehicles in Environmentally
Sensitive Areas ........................................
6.02.04
HIRD Hutchinson Island Residential District
Traffic Capacity Levels ....................................
3.01.03.AA.8
Home Occupations
Use Limitations for Home Occupations ..................
8.01.03
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone
Exceptions ...................................................
4.01.05
Jenkins Road Area Plan Special District ..................
4.12.00 et seq.
See: JENKINS ROAD AREA PLAN SPECIAL
DISTRICT
Landscaping
General Landscaping Requirements
Parking and Other Vehicular Use Area Interior
Landscaping
Vehicle Encroachments into Landscaped Areas ...
7.09.04.C.2
Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
Traffic Circulation ..........................................
7.10.17.J
Newsracks
Emergency Removal ........................................
7.10.26.I
Purpose and Criteria .......................................
7.10.26.A
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:223 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:224 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES (Cont'd.)
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
Standards and Requirements
Traffic and Pedestrian Circulation ....................
7.03.03.E
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Standards and Requirements
Traffic and Pedestrian Circulation ....................
7.02.03.D
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Standards and Requirements
Traffic and Pedestrian Circulation ....................
7.01.03.E
Recreational Vehicle Parks
Traffic Circulation ..........................................
7.10.16.M
Sea Turtle Protection
Application Contents, Sea Turtle Protection Plan (STPP)
Preparation and Submission of STPP .................
6.04.02.F.1
New Beachfront Lighting, Standards for
Vehicular Circulation Improvements and Parking
Areas, Design of .....................................
6.04.02.I.7
Signs and Billboards
Prohibited Signs ............................................
9.03.00
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Conditions on Site Plan Approval
Major Site Plan Approvals
Traffic Control Devices .............................
11.02.08.B.1
Minor Site Plan Approvals
Traffic Control Devices .............................
11.02.08.A.1
Temporary Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Temporary Uses Permitted ...................
8.02.02
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:224 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
TVC—OVERLAY ZONE (TOWNS, VILLAGES,
COUNTRYSIDE) (Cont'd.)
Transferable Development Rights
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ...........................................
4.04.05.H
Specific Standards, TVC
Agricultural Uses ...........................................
4.04.04.0
Applicability of TVC Specific Standards .................
4.04.04.A
Inside the Urban Service Boundary, Residential Subdivi-
sions.....................................................
4.04.04.E
Other Non -Residential Uses ..............................
4.04.04.G
Residence, Residential
Inside the Urban Service Boundary, Residential
Subdivisions .........................................
4.04.04.E
Residential Subdivisions Outside the Urban Service
Boundary .............................................
4.04.04.D
Standards for New Residential Buildings ............
4.04.04.F
Residential Subdivisions Outside the Urban Service
Boundary ...............................................
4.04.04.D
Standards for New Residential Buildings ...............
4.04.04.F
Street Network .............................................
4.04.04.13
Stormwater Management
Performance Monitoring
Open Space and Countryside ...........................
4.04.07.13
Specific Standards, TVC
Inside the Urban Service Boundary, Residential
Subdivisions .........................................
4.04.04.E
Residential Subdivisions Outside the Urban Service
Boundary .............................................
4.04.04.D
Transferable Development Rights
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ...........................................
4.04.05.H
Transferable Development Rights ..........................
4.04.05
Allocation of Transferable Development Rights Within
the North St. Lucie County Special Area Plan
(SAP) ....................................................
4.04.05.0
Applicability.................................................
4.04.05.A
Conditions of the Conservation Easement or Deed
Restriction ..............................................
4.04.05.H
Definitions...................................................
4.04.05.L
Findings .....................................................
4.04.05.13
Obligation to Convey Transferable Development Rights;
TDR Credits ............................................
4.04.05.D
Procedures for Use of Transferable Development Rights
Credits ..................................................
4.04.05.G
Public Acquisition of Transferable Development Rights
4.04.05.K
Requirements of Open Space and Countryside Associ-
ated with Towns or Villages Created through the
Transfer of Development Rights .....................
4.04.05.I
The TDR Sending Area ....................................
4.04.05.E
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:231 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
TVC—OVERLAY ZONE (TOWNS, VILLAGES,
COUNTRYSIDE) (Cont'd.)
Value of Transferable Development Rights ............. 4.04.054
i
U UTILITIES DISTRICT
Accessory Uses ................................................
3.01.03.W.8
Conditional Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.W.7
Dimensional Regulations .....................................
3.01.03.W.4
Landscaping Requirements ..................................
3.01.03.W.6
Lot Size Requirements .......................................
3.01.03.W.3
Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements ...........
3.01.03.W.5
Permitted Uses ................................................
3.01.03.W.2
PMUD Planned Mixed Use Development District
7.08.04.13
Permitted Uses and Locations
High Intensity ............................................
7.03.02.A
Medium Intensity ........................................
7.03.02.B
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Permitted Uses
Commercial or Industrial Classified Land Use Area,
7.10.17.M
For Properties Located in any .....................
7.02.02.B
Purpose.........................................................
3.01.03W.
Signs and Billboards ..........................................
9.01.01 et seq.
See: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
7.01.01
Towers and Antennas
Telecommunications Tower Siting
7.10.16.P
General....................................................
7.10.23.0
UTILITIES
Development Permits
Mining Permits
Requirement for Permit; Exemptions ..................
11.05.11.A
Drainage, Drains
Utility and Drainage Easements in Subdivisions ......
7.08.02
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit
On -Site Sewage Disposal System, Requirement for.
7.08.04.13
Water and Sewer Service Systems
Sewage Systems ..........................................
7.08.03.13
Floodplain Management .....................................
6.05.01 et seq.
See: FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
Central Utilities, Requirement for .......................
7.10.17.M
PNRD Planned Nonresidential Development District
Purpose......................................................
7.02.01
PUD Planned Unit Development District
Purpose......................................................
7.01.01
Recreational Vehicle Parks
Central Utilities, Requirement for .......................
7.10.16.P
Requirements for all Developments ........................
7.08.01
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:232 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
UTILITIES (Cont'd.)
Sewage Treatment Plants, Wastewater Reuse Standards
for..........................................................
7.08.05
Sewers and Sewage Disposal
Requirements for all Developments ......................
7.08.01
Sewage Treatment Plants, Wastewater Reuse Standards
for........................................................
7.08.05
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit.
See herein that subject
Water and Sewer Service Systems. See herein that
subject
Site Plans
Review of Site Plans, Procedure for
Conditions on Site Plan Approval
Major Site Plan Approvals
Connected to Regional Utility Systems ..........
11.02.08.13.4
Minor Site Plan Approvals
Connected to Regional Utility Systems ..........
11.02.08.A.4
Stormwater Management
Exemptions from Stormwater Permits ...................
7.07.05
Subdivisions
Requirements for all Developments ......................
7.08.01
Utility and Drainage Easements in Subdivisions ......
7.08.02
Water and Sewer Service Systems
Sewage Systems ..........................................
7.08.03.13
Transportation Systems
Rights -of -Way Determinations and Dedications,
Improvements
Dedications to Public ....................................
7.05.03.E
Sidewalks and Bikeways
Sidewalks .................................................
7.05.04.A
U Utilities District ............................................
3.01.03.W
Utility and Drainage Easements in Subdivisions.........
7.08.02
Option 1 ......................................................
7.08.02.A
Option 2 ......................................................
7.08.02.13
Variances.......................................................
10.01.14 et seq.
See: VARIANCES
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Exemptions...............................................
6.00.04
Wastewater and Sewage Disposal Compliance Permit ...
7.08.04
Enforcement .................................................
7.08.04.0
On -Site Sewage Disposal System, Requirement for....
7.08.04.13
Requirements ...............................................
7.08.04.A
Water and Sewer Service Systems ..........................
7.08.03
Sewage Systems ............................................
7.08.03.13
Waiver of Dry Line Requirements ........................
7.08.03.0
Water Systems ..............................................
7.08.03.A
Wellfield Protection
Exemptions
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:233 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
UTILITIES (Cont'd.)
Activities exempt
Public Utilities, Exemptions for ..................... 6.03.05.A.1
Wetlands Protection
Exemptions .................................................. 6.02.03.G
V
VACATE, VACATED
Right-of-way Abandonment and Plat Vacation Procedures 11.10.00 et seq.
See: RIGHT-OF-WAY ABANDONMENT AND PLAT
VACATION PROCEDURES
VARIANCES
Access
Driveway Regulations, Administrative Variances from
Requirements of .......................................
10.01.21
Minimum Yard Setback Standards, Administrative
Variances for the Required
For Mobile Home Parks
General Standards for Issuance .....................
10.01.14.B.2
For Recreational Vehicle Parks
General Standards for Issuance .....................
10.01.14.A.2
Special Provisions where Variance is Sought to Require-
ments of Flood Damage Prevention
General Standards for Issuance ........................
10.01.25.0
Accessory Agricultural Structure, Administrative Vari-
ances to Construct an ...................................
10.01.13
Application Procedures ....................................
10.01.13.A
General Standards for Issuance ..........................
10.01.13.B
Action of Board of Adjustment ..............................
10.01.05
Appeals
Accessory Agricultural Structure, Administrative Vari-
ances to Construct an
Application Procedures ..................................
10.01.13.A
Appeals from the Board of Adjustment ..................
10.01.07
Driveway Regulations, Administrative Variances from
Requirements of .......................................
10.01.21
Riverine Shoreline Protection Regulations, Request for
a Variance from ........................................
10.01.30.E
Appeals from the Board of Adjustment ....................
10.01.07
Board of Adjustment
Accessory Agricultural Structure, Administrative Vari-
ances to Construct an
Application Procedures ..................................
10.01.13.A
Action of Board of Adjustment ............................
10.01.05
Appeals from the Board of Adjustment ..................
10.01.07
Extensions of Variance Approvals ........................
10.01.06
General
Authority ..................................................
10.01.01.A
St. Lucie County Land
Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:234 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Section
VARIANCES (Cont'd.)
Procedures for Application
Review of the Application
Airport Director and the FDOT, Review by the....
10.01.04.C.2
Special Provisions where Variance is Sought to Require-
ments of Flood Damage Prevention. See herein
that subject
Standards for Granting Variances ........................
10.01.02
Charges, Fees and Rates
Accessory Agricultural Structure, Administrative Vari-
ances to Construct an
Application Procedures ..................................
10.01.13.A
Minimum Yard Setback Standards, Administrative
Variances for the Required
For Mobile Home Parks
Application Procedures ...............................
10.01.14.13.1
For Recreational Vehicle Parks
Application Procedures ...............................
10.01.14.A.1
Procedures for Application
Application ................................................
10.01.04.A
Special Provisions where Variance is Sought to Require-
ments of Flood Damage Prevention
Application Procedures ..................................
10.01.25.13
Stormwater Management, Administrative Variances
from Requirements of
Application Procedures ..................................
10.01.17.A
Driveway Regulations, Administrative Variances from
Requirements of ..........................................
10.01.21
Extensions of Variance Approvals ..........................
10.01.06
Floodplain Management .....................................
6.05.07
General.........................................................
10.01.01
Authority ....................................................
10.01.01.A
Initiation.....................................................
10.01.01.0
Purpose ......................................................
10.01.01.B
Growth Management Director
Action of Board of Adjustment ............................
10.01.05
Procedures for Application. See herein that subject
Riverine Shoreline Protection Regulations, Variances
from. See herein that subject
Hearings
Action of Board of Adjustment ............................
10.01.05
Extensions of Variance Approvals ........................
10.01.06
Special Provisions where Variance is Sought to Require-
ments of Flood Damage Prevention
Application Procedures ..................................
10.01.25.13
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone ......
4.01.06
Identification
Accessory Agricultural Structure, Administrative Vari-
ances to Construct an
Application Procedures ..................................
10.01.13.A
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:235 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:236 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
VARIANCES (Cont'd.)
Minimum Yard Setback Standards, Administrative
Variances for the Required
For Mobile Home Parks
Application Procedures ...............................
10.01.14.13.1
Procedures for Application
Application ................................................
10.01.04.A
Special Provisions where Variance is Sought to Require-
ments of Flood Damage Prevention
Application Procedures ..................................
10.01.25.13
Limitations on Granting Variances .........................
10.01.03
Minimum Yard Setback Standards, Administrative Vari-
ances for the Required ..................................
10.01.14
For Mobile Home Parks ....................................
10.01.14.13
Application Procedures ..................................
10.01.14.B.1
Conditions on Variances .................................
10.01.14.13.3
General Standards for Issuance ........................
10.01.14.13.2
For Recreational Vehicle Parks ...........................
10.01.14.A
Application Procedures ..................................
10.01.14.A.1
Conditions on Variances .................................
10.01.14.A.3
General Standards for Issuance ........................
10.01.14.A.2
Public Works Director
For Mobile Home Parks
Application Procedures ...............................
10.01.14.13.1
General Standards for Issuance .....................
10.01.14.13.2
For Recreational Vehicle Parks
Application Procedures ...............................
10.01.14.A.1
Policies, Procedures and Provisions
Accessory Agricultural Structure, Administrative Vari-
ances to Construct an
Application Procedures ..................................
10.01.13.A
Minimum Yard Setback Standards, Administrative
Variances for the Required
For Mobile Home Parks
Application Procedures ...............................
10.01.14.13.1
For Recreational Vehicle Parks
Application Procedures ...............................
10.01.14.A.1
Procedures for Application ................................
10.01.04
Special Provisions where Variance is Sought to Require-
ments of Flood Damage Prevention .................
10.01.25
Stormwater Management, Administrative Variances
from Requirements of
Application Procedures ..................................
10.01.17.A
Procedures for Application ...................................
10.01.04
Application ..................................................
10.01.04.A
Filing an Application for Approval of a Variance.......
10.01.04.13
Growth Management Director
Application ................................................
10.01.04.A
Filing an Application for Approval of a Variance ....
10.01.04.13
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:236 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
WATER SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION
Section
WALLS. See: FENCES, HEDGES, WALLS AND OTHER
ENCLOSURES
WAREHOUSES
AG -1 Agricultural - 1 District
8.00.03
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.A.7
AG -2.5 Agricultural - 2.5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.B.7
AG -5 Agricultural - 5 District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.C.7
CG Commercial, General District
5.06.01.0
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.S.7
Development Design and Improvement Standards
3.01.03.Y.8
Off -Street Parking and Loading
11.02.08 et seq.
Performance Standards .................................
7.06.02
IH Industrial, Heavy District
Conditional Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.U.7
IL Industrial, Light District
Purpose......................................................
3.01.03.T.1
PRW (Planned Retail/Workplace) District
4.05.08.G.6
Standards and Requirements
Permitted Uses ...........................................
3.01.03.GG.2.e
WARRANTS. See: WRITS, WARRANTS AND OTHER
LEGAL PROCESSES
3.01.03.W.2
WATER SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION
Accessory Buildings, Structures and Uses
Particular Permitted Accessory Structures and Uses in
Residential, Agricultural, and Planned Unit
Development Districts ................................
8.00.03
Public Facilities
Adequate Public Facilities
Findings ...................................................
5.00.02
Level of Service Standards
Establishment of Level of Service Standards
Potable Water ..........................................
5.06.01.0
RF Religious Facilities District
Accessory Uses ..............................................
3.01.03.Y.8
Site Plans ......................................................
11.02.08 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
Infrastructure Required ..............................
4.05.08.G.6
Public Facilities Impact Assessments, SRA
Potable Water ..........................................
4.05.08.H.2
U Utilities District
Permitted Uses .............................................
3.01.03.W.2
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:241 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
Section
WATER SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION (Cont'd.)
Utilities
Requirements for all Developments ...................... 7.08.01
Water and Sewer Service Systems ....................... 7.08.03
Wellfield Protection
Generally
Legislative Intent ........................................ 6.03.01.A
Protection of Future Public Water Supply Well Sites.. 6.03.04
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Development Design and Improvement Standards .......
7.04.01 et seq.
See: DEVELOPMENT DESIGN AND IMPROVE-
MENT STANDARDS
Landscaping...................................................
7.09.04 et seq.
See: LANDSCAPING
Mining
Restrictions, Regulations, and Conditions on Mining
Permit...................................................
6.06.01
Newsracks
Installation and Maintenance .............................
7.10.26.G
Public Facilities
Level of Service Standards
Measurement of Road Capacity ........................
5.06.03
Proportionate Fair Share Transportation Impact Mitiga-
tion
Determining Proportionate Fair -Share Obligation ..
5.07.00.1)
Sea Turtle Protection
Mechanical Beach Cleaning, Standards for .............
6.04.02.N
Signs and Billboards
General Provisions
Billboards .................................................
9.02.02
Stormwater Management
Local Jurisdictional Permit Requirements
Discharge.................................................
7.07.07.A
Requirement for Dry Detention/Retention............
7.07.07.0
Transportation Systems ......................................
7.05.02 et seq.
See: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Vegetation
Protection and Preservation, Vegetation
Criteria Governing Approval of Vegetation Removal
Permit
Mitigation
Ratios, Mitigation ...................................
6.00.05.D.2
Sizes, Mitigation ....................................
6.00.05.D.1
WELFARE. See: HEALTH, SANITATION, SAFETY AND
WELFARE
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:242 Adopted May 19, 2009
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE INDEX
Z
ZONING DISTRICTS. See also specific districts
Use Regulations, Zoning District ........................... 3.01.00
Administrative Use Regulations for Permitted and
Conditional Uses ...................................... 3.01.02
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:249 Adopted May 19, 2009
Section
YARDS AND OPEN SPACES (Cont'd.)
RM -5 Residential, Multiple -Family - 5 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.L.4
RM -7 Residential, Multiple -Family - 7 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.M.4
RM -9 Residential, Multiple -Family - 9 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.N.4
RM -11 Residential, Multiple -Family - 11 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.0.4
RM -15 Residential, Multiple -Family - 15 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.P.4
RMH-5 Residential, Mobile Home - 5 District
Density, Area, Yard, and Height Requirements ........
3.01.03.K.3
RS -2 Residential, Single -Family - 2 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.H.4
RS -3 Residential, Single -Family - 3 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.I.4
RS -4 Residential, Single -Family - 4 District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.J.4
Signs and Billboards
Permitted Permanent and Authorized Temporary Signs
Authorized Temporary Signs
Residential Temporary Signs ........................
9.01.02.F
Site Plans ......................................................
11.02.03 et seq.
See: SITE PLANS
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone
SRA Designation
Design Criteria
RLSA Village Design Criteria ........................
4.05.08.G.3
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)
Performance Monitoring
Open Space and Countryside ...........................
4.04.07.13
Transferable Development Rights
Requirements of Open Space and Countryside Associ-
ated with Towns or Villages Created through
the Transfer of Development Rights ..............
4.04.05.1
U Utilities District
Dimensional Regulations ..................................
3.01.03.W.4
Variances
Minimum Yard Setback Standards, Administrative
Variances for the Required ...........................
10.01.14
Z
ZONING DISTRICTS. See also specific districts
Use Regulations, Zoning District ........................... 3.01.00
Administrative Use Regulations for Permitted and
Conditional Uses ...................................... 3.01.02
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:249 Adopted May 19, 2009
ST. LUCIE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
ZONING (Generally)
Airport Overlay Zones ........................................
Section
ZONING DISTRICTS (Cont'd.)
Generally ....................................................
3.01.01
Accessory Uses and Structures .........................
3.01.01.0
Conditional Uses .........................................
3.01.01.13
Permitted Uses ...........................................
3.01.01.A
Public Services and Facilities ..........................
3.01.01.D
Zoning Districts .............................................
3.01.03
Zoning Districts ...............................................
3.00.00
Established ..................................................
3.00.01
ZONING (Generally)
Airport Overlay Zones ........................................
4.00.00 et seq.
See: AIRPORT OVERLAY ZONES
Amendments to the Code and Official Zoning Atlas......
11.06.00 et seq.
See: AMENDMENTS
Coastal Area Protection
Beach and Dune Protection
Dune Preservation Zone Restriction ...................
6.02.01.E.1
Development Permits
Certificates of Zoning Compliance ........................
11.05.00.13
Hutchinson Island—Building Height Overlay Zone ......
4.01.00 et seq.
See: HUTCHINSON ISLAND—BUILDING HEIGHT
OVERLAY ZONE
Landscaping
General Provisions
Irrigation
Zoning of irrigation systems .........................
7.09.03.C.1
Planning and Zoning Commission ..........................
12.02.00 et seq.
See: PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
Research and Education Park—Overlay Zone .............
4.03.00 et seq.
See: RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PARK—
OVERLAY ZONE
River Park—Community Overlay Zone ....................
4.02.00 et seq.
See: RIVER PARK—COMMUNITY OVERLAY ZONE
St. Lucie County Rural Land Stewardship Area Overlay
Zone........................................................
4.05.00 et seq.
See: ST. LUCIE COUNTY RURAL LAND STEWARD-
SHIP AREA OVERLAY ZONE
TVC—Overlay Zone (Towns, Villages, Countryside)......
4.04.00 et seq.
See: TVC—OVERLAY ZONE (TOWNS, VILLAGES,
COUNTRYSIDE)
Vested Rights
Zoning Conformance .......................................
11.09.02
Wellfield Protection
Zone of Protection Maps ...................................
6.03.02
Zoning Districts ...............................................
3.00.00 et seq.
See: ZONING DISTRICTS
St. Lucie County Land Development Code
Supp. No. 16 LDCi:250 Adopted May 19, 2009