Neither Chatham County nor the City of Savannah bans artificial turf on private residential yards. There is no specific county ordinance regulating synthetic lawns, though zoning landscape and stormwater standards may apply to larger installations.
No Chatham County or Savannah ordinance specifically permits or prohibits residential artificial turf, so homeowners generally may install it. The governing limits are indirect: the Chatham County–Savannah unified zoning ordinance (NewZO) can require living plant material and pervious area in required landscape buffers and parking-lot islands, and impervious-surface or stormwater rules may treat large turf areas as runoff-generating. Historic-district design review (Savannah's Historic District and neighboring overlays) may restrict front-yard synthetic turf on regulated properties. For a standard backyard, artificial turf is typically allowed, but confirm HOA covenants and any overlay-district requirements before installing.
No turf-specific penalty. Violations would arise only under zoning landscape/buffer standards, stormwater rules, or historic-overlay design review for a regulated property.
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