Florida law protects your right to plant native, drought-tolerant, Florida-Friendly landscaping: a local ordinance may not prohibit any owner from implementing it. Port St. Lucie's landscape code actually favors native species and drought-tolerant material.
Under Florida Statute 373.185(3)(c), a local government ordinance may not prohibit, or be enforced to prohibit, a property owner from implementing Florida-friendly landscaping, which emphasizes native, drought-tolerant plants and reduced irrigation. Port St. Lucie's Landscape and Land Clearing Code (Chapter 154) reinforces this by favoring preservation of native vegetation, cold- and drought-tolerant material, and requiring that all required trees be native species. Deed restrictions and HOA rules that forbid Florida-friendly yards are likewise unenforceable to that extent. You still cannot let plantings become an overgrown-weed nuisance under the property maintenance code.
No penalty for native or Florida-friendly landscaping itself; enforcement only arises if the yard becomes an overgrown-weed nuisance or violates neutral landscape-code standards applied evenhandedly.
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St. Lucie County does not set a numeric park curfew in its general code. County parks, beaches, and natural preserves are open during daylight hours only, fr...
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Along St. Lucie County's coast, the sea-turtle ordinance (LDC 6.04.02) is the strongest light-trespass rule: exterior lights visible from the beach or illumi...
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St. Lucie County's Treasure Coast beaches are protected by a sea-turtle lighting ordinance (LDC 6.04.02). Between the coastal control line and the Atlantic, ...
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In unincorporated St. Lucie County, garage or yard sale signs are exempt from a permit under LDC 9.04.00 as long as they are removed by sunset of the last da...
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In unincorporated St. Lucie County, campaign signs are content-neutral non-commercial temporary signs. They must sit wholly on private property, and in singl...
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St. Lucie County has no tiny-home ordinance. A site-built tiny house on a foundation is a dwelling under the Florida Building Code and zoning; a tiny house o...
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