Environmental Rules in Palm Coast, FL (2026)
3 verified environmental rules for Palm Coast, Florida, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.
Verified from official government sources
Stormwater Management
Palm Coast charges every property owner a monthly stormwater management fee under City Code § 24-136, billed in Equivalent Residential Units (ERUs). A single-family home is billed as one ERU; vacant, multifamily and commercial parcels are billed on multiples of that unit based on acreage and impervious cover, with rates set by City Council resolution.
Palm Coast Stormwater Utility Fees
Some RestrictionsPalm Coast Code of Ordinances § 24-136(a)-(b)(2)
(a)Authorization. The City Council is empowered by this division to establish, by adoption of a rate resolution, service charges (fees) for the City's stormwater management facilities or systems. Such service charges shall be based on the cost of providing stormwater management services to all properties within the City and shall, together with any other lawfully available and appropriated reve...
Erosion Control
Palm Coast requires Best Management Practices to keep construction sites from eroding into the city's canals, ditches, lakes and other waterbodies. Sec. 24-76 makes it a violation to let construction material erode into a waterbody and not remove it within 15 days of notice, and it requires erosion control measures like an eight-foot vegetated buffer or a staked filter cloth screen.
Palm Coast Erosion Control for Waterbody Sites
Some RestrictionsCity of Palm Coast Code of Ordinances § 24-76(b)(2), (d)
(b)Violations. It shall be a violation:(2)To allow material from a construction site to be deposited or to erode into a waterbody, and fails to remove same within 15 days after notification of noncompliance. ... (d)Methods to prevent erosion. Persons involved in the construction, remodeling or repair of buildings and/or pools in the City shall use Best Management Practices to prevent erosion of...
Flood Elevation Requirements
Palm Coast requires new and substantially improved buildings in coastal high-hazard (Zone V) and Coastal A flood zones to be elevated to the base flood elevation plus 2 feet, or to the ASCE 24 standard, whichever is higher. City Code § 15-28 adds this freeboard rule directly into the adopted Florida Building Code's flood-load section, 1612.4.2.
Palm Coast Flood Elevation Freeboard Rule
Some RestrictionsPalm Coast City Code § 15-28 (FBC §§ 1612.4.2, 1612.4.3)
In Section 1612, Flood Loads, add as follows: 1612.4.2 Elevation requirements. The minimum elevation requirements for coastal high hazard areas (Zone V) and Coastal A Zones shall be as specified in ASCE 24 or the base flood elevation plus 2 feet (610 mm), whichever is higher. 1612.4.3 Additional requirements for enclosed areas. In addition to the requirements of ASCE 24, enclosed areas below th...
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