Satellite Beach, FL Environmental Rules: Erosion Control (2026)

Sec. 30-303 sets the required contents of any site plan submitted for city review, and subsection (f)(2)g governs the surface-water-runoff-management portion of that submittal. The first item required there is an erosion and sedimentation plan: the applicant's registered architect, engineer or landscape architect must describe the type and location of measures to control erosion and sedimentation, identify the stage of development at which each measure will be installed or used, and spell out how the measures will be maintained through construction. That erosion-and-sedimentation plan sits alongside the site plan's broader surface-water-runoff package, which must also describe channel flow rates and volumes compared to pre-development conditions, detention and retention areas, percolation zones, and the runoff calculations required to follow St.

Johns River Water Management District rules. The site plan is reviewed by city staff and the city engineer, then by the planning and zoning advisory board, before the building official or city council can approve it under Sec. 30-302, so an incomplete erosion-control plan blocks approval at the staff-review stage rather than being caught only after grading begins. Once construction starts, the standing performance standard in Sec. 30-711, requiring runoff to approximate natural pre-development conditions, and the bank-slope and percolation requirements in Sec. 30-712 continue to govern how the site controls erosion.