Franklin County, FL Environmental Rules: Stormwater Management (2026)

5. Subsection (a) bars the commission from recommending approval of any plat that lacks adequate provision for stormwater management, erosion control and flood damage prevention. and applicable county regulations, to include an erosion and sediment control plan, and to come with runoff computations submitted alongside the construction plans. Where a subdivision is crossed by a watercourse, drainageway, channel or stream, the developer must provide a stormwater easement following the lines of that watercourse, sized adequately for its purpose; the code favors conveying stormwater through a swale or open channel with landscaped banks rather than piping it.

Where topography makes it impractical to keep stormwater facilities inside road rights-of-way, the developer must record a perpetual, unobstructed easement at least fifteen feet wide, connected from the road to the stormwater facilities and accessible from the road. If the system will carry water across private land outside the subdivision, that easement must be secured and recorded with the final plat. 5.