Titusville, FL Environmental Rules: Flood Zones (2026)

Section 30-91 establishes the Floodplain Management Ordinance and states its scope covers essentially any development activity touching a flood hazard area, from subdivision of land and site grading to construction, alteration or demolition of buildings exempt from the Florida Building Code, manufactured home placement, tank installation, recreational vehicle placement and swimming pool installation. Section 30-92(c) ties flood hazard area boundaries to the Flood Insurance Study for Brevard County, Florida and Incorporated Areas dated January 29, 2021, and its accompanying FEMA flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs), adopted by reference as the minimum basis for regulation; where field-surveyed topography contradicts the FIRM, the Floodplain Administrator (the City Engineer, per Section 30-93(a)) can require additional data and regulate accordingly.

Beyond the base permit requirement, Section 30-103(b)(1) caps residential density in flood hazard areas at one dwelling unit per acre, though a parcel straddling both floodplain and upland can transfer that unbuilt density to the upland portion under the Wetlands and Conservation Overlay. New septic systems serving new or substantially improved structures are flatly prohibited in special flood hazard areas under Section 30-103(c). Applications go through the Floodplain Administrator and, where the work also falls under the Florida Building Code, the Building Official; variances go to the Board of Adjustments and Appeals under Section 30-97, which cannot approve any floodway variance that would raise base flood elevations. The ordinance was adopted by Ordinance No. 19-2021, Section 2, August 10, 2021.