No St. Johns County ordinance can force a turf lawn. Florida Statute 373.185 bars any local ordinance or deed restriction 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 St. Johns County, and even inside HOA and CDD communities in Nocatee and Ponte Vedra Beach, may landscape with Florida native species, pollinator gardens, and low-water beds. The state and the water management district actively promote it to cut irrigation demand and protect the aquifer. The one limit is upkeep: a genuinely neglected, overgrown yard can still draw a nuisance notice, so an intentional native planting is best kept tended and defined.
None for native planting itself. A neglected, overgrown planting can still draw a county or city nuisance notice, but a tended Florida-Friendly yard is protected from enforcement by Florida Statute 373.185.
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