Port St. Lucie, FL Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Sec. 221(B) sets "Design and Use Requirements" for every off-street parking facility in the city, and subsection (B)(6) singles out single-family lots facing busier roads: any single-family residential dwelling on a designated arterial or collector street of two lanes or greater must construct a circular drive. The rule exists so residents backing out of a driveway are not forced to reverse directly onto higher-speed through traffic. The Public Works Department, not the homeowner, makes the call on whether a circular drive is workable for a given lot; if Public Works determines a circular drive is not viable, the code substitutes a specific fallback measurement, a paved turn-around area at least ten feet by twenty feet, built adjacent to the driveway.

Both the circular drive and the turnaround must be paved, consistent with the broader off-street parking chapter's general position that vehicle areas be paved except where a narrow exception applies to non-commercial civic uses or large commercial sites under (B)(1) and (B)(2). This is a site-plan and building-permit item reviewed at the time a residence is designed or a driveway is altered on a qualifying lot; homes on ordinary local residential streets, or on arterial/collector roads of a single lane, are not subject to the circular-drive mandate.