No Charlotte County ordinance or deed restriction can force a turf lawn. Florida Statute 373.185 bars any local ordinance or covenant from prohibiting Florida-Friendly Landscaping, so residents may replace grass with native, drought-tolerant, and pollinator plantings.
Florida law protects native and drought-tolerant landscaping outright. Florida Statute 373.185 provides that neither a local government ordinance nor a deed restriction may prohibit or be enforced to prohibit a property owner from implementing Florida-Friendly Landscaping. So homeowners across Charlotte County, including the many deed-restricted subdivisions in Port Charlotte, Deep Creek, and Rotonda West, may landscape with Florida native species, pollinator gardens, and low-water beds suited to sandy coastal soils. The state and SWFWMD promote it to cut irrigation demand under the weekly watering schedule. The one limit is upkeep: a genuinely neglected planting can still draw a nuisance notice on a developed lot, so an intentional native yard is best kept tended and defined.
None for native planting itself. A neglected, overgrown planting on a developed lot can still draw a county nuisance notice, but a tended Florida-Friendly yard is protected from enforcement by Florida Statute 373.185.
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