Guilford County, NC Landscaping Rules: Artificial Turf (2026)

The county's Unified Development Ordinance contains no provision prohibiting synthetic lawns, so homeowners on ordinary lots may install artificial turf. The main constraint is stormwater: in Water Supply Watershed districts serving Randleman and Jordan lakes, built-upon area is capped (for example, Lower Randleman Lake developments may not exceed 50 percent built-upon area), and impervious or compacted surfaces can count toward those limits. Within protected riparian buffers, adding impervious surface is restricted. On unregulated single-family lots outside watershed critical areas, artificial turf is generally unrestricted.