Santa Rosa County has no ordinance banning residential artificial turf, and it is not counted as required landscaping. The county's landscape code favors native, living, Florida-Friendly plantings for regulated development. HOAs may separately restrict synthetic turf.
The county does not prohibit homeowners from installing synthetic lawn on an existing single-family or duplex lot, which is exempt from the landscape code (LDC 4.07.01.E). For regulated new development, the landscape code requires living native/Florida-Friendly plant material, so artificial turf generally cannot satisfy required landscaping, tree, or water-quality/pervious-surface standards. Because Santa Rosa is a coastal county with stormwater and pervious-surface concerns, large impervious turf installations may need to meet drainage/erosion-control rules. Subdivision covenants or HOA rules commonly regulate or ban synthetic turf on appearance grounds, so check those before installing.
No county turf-specific penalty for existing homes; for development, using turf to substitute for required living landscaping can fail site-plan review; drainage/erosion rules apply to large impervious areas.
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