Guilford County has no ordinance banning or specifically regulating artificial turf on residential lots. Because turf is an impervious-type surface, it may count toward built-upon-area limits in protected watershed districts and stream buffers.
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.
No dedicated turf penalty; exceeding watershed built-upon-area caps or adding impervious surface in a buffer can trigger watershed-ordinance enforcement and required corrective action.
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