Titusville, FL Hurricane Preparedness: Flood Elevation (2026)

Sec. 6-91(a) of the Titusville Code of Ordinances requires that, except as the section otherwise provides, the surface of the lowest level of any building or structure designed for human occupancy, other than parking garages, sit no less than twelve inches above the mean crown of the adjoining street. The building official may waive that street-crown rule only after review of a topographic survey and supporting engineering documentation showing the terrain and soils protect against the one-hundred-year flood, and even then requires a registered engineer's certification that the finished floor is at least twelve inches above the base flood elevation, plus, in some cases, a recorded release of liability from the property owner.

Subsection (c) requires a foundation survey and a final survey from a licensed surveyor or engineer on all new or substantially improved structures, dimensioning setbacks and showing the finished floor's elevation relative to the street crown and the one-hundred-year flood elevation; the foundation survey must reach the city's inspection agency before the next scheduled inspection, and the final survey must be filed before a certificate of occupancy issues. Subsection (d) defines a substantially improved structure as one receiving an addition of 50 percent or more of its existing floor area.

This local rule sits on top of the state-adopted Florida Building Code floodplain provisions in Sec. 6-102, which separately require the lowest floor in flood hazard areas to sit at or above the base flood elevation plus one foot, and the National Flood Insurance Program administrative rule in Sec. 6-102(10) barring affidavit-based permitting for flood-load construction requirements. for the broader floodplain management framework.