Lauderhill, FL Landscaping Rules: Rainwater Harvesting (2026)

Sec. 4.9 of the Design Standards and Guidelines, covering bus stops, closes with a set of Design guidelines rather than mandatory Design standards: efforts should be made to retain stormwater on site as far as possible to reduce runoff; rainwater harvesting should also be encouraged through the collection of water from roofs with large cisterns or rain barrels which can be subsequently used for irrigation; and wastewater should be reused as much as possible for landscape irrigation. The section labels this passage Design guidelines, distinct from the Design standards subsections elsewhere in Schedule P that use mandatory language such as shall be provided or must be, so the rainwater harvesting language reads as an encouraged practice rather than a numeric permit requirement.

It sits inside Sec. 5's broader landscape and irrigation standards, which separately require native, drought-tolerant streetscape planting and buffering around parking areas, and applies during site plan review for new development, redevelopment and substantial improvements captured by Schedule P's general design standards in Sec. 2. No cistern size, connection detail, or inspection step accompanies the guidance.