Santa Rosa County limits how much of a site can be covered by impervious surfaces. Within the Shoreline Protection Zone, total impervious surface — buildings, driveways, pools, walkways — is capped at 75% of the site. Residential buildable area is otherwise controlled by setbacks.
The county's LDC does not set a single residential building-coverage percentage; instead, buildable area on a typical lot is governed by the required setbacks in Table 2.05.01. Impervious-surface caps do apply in specific contexts: within the Shoreline Protection Zone, total impervious surface — including buildings, houses, parking, garages, accessory buildings, driveways, pools and walkways — is limited to 75% of the site's land area. Planned industrial development caps building lot coverage at 50% and impervious surface at 75%. All accessory structures count toward impervious-surface and lot-coverage calculations.
Exceeding impervious or coverage limits in a regulated zone requires stormwater review or a variance; unpermitted overbuilding is a code-enforcement and stormwater-compliance violation.
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