Flagler County, FL Environmental Rules: Erosion Control (2026)

00 of the Land Development Code folds Flagler County's stormwater rules into the existing framework run by the Army Corps of Engineers, EPA, the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation, the Department of Transportation and the St. Johns River Water Management District. 03, once a developer holds a stormwater permit from one of those permitting agencies, the county issues a matching Flagler County permit, but only on three conditions: the applicant must use best management practices for erosion and sediment control throughout construction, must forward the county administrator a copy of any permitting-agency inspection report once issued, and must keep complying with whatever maintenance requirements that agency imposes.

Small projects are exempt, including a single-family, duplex, triplex or quadruplex not part of a larger development, silviculture operations following the state's Best Management Practices Manual, and any activity disturbing less than 500 square feet of vehicular-use impervious surface or 1,000 square feet of other impervious area. 04: the county engineer must get seven days' written notice before construction begins on a permitted project, and the county can use stop-work orders, injunctions, and recovery of its costs, expert fees and attorneys' fees, plus code enforcement board fines and liens.

Noncompliant activity is declared a nuisance that the county attorney can pursue in court. This stormwater and erosion-control permitting structure applies only in unincorporated Flagler County; Palm Coast, Flagler Beach and Beverly Beach run their own stormwater permitting.