Putnam County, FL Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Section 45-635 sets driveway design standards under the Land Development Code's roadway design division, and subsection (d)(2) governs the surface of the connection itself: all connections to paved roadways shall be permanent type pavement, including Portland cement concrete or asphaltic concrete, while gravel, bituminous surface treatments, and other materials without a permanent surface are prohibited. The one carve-out is for single residences, whose driveway connection to a paved road may be provided by an unpaved, stabilized surface subject to approval of the public works director, meaning an unpaved driveway approach is not automatically legal, it needs sign-off first.

Beyond the surface itself, subsection (d)(1) bars fences, walls, hedges or other obstacles that block sight lines between two and a half feet and ten feet above the driveway's centerline grade, per FDOT sight-distance standards, and subsection (d)(3) ties pavement thickness for residential connections to local-road standards, with a four-inch minimum for Portland cement concrete driveways. Dimensional standards for the driveway itself, width, flare, radius and spacing from property lines and street corners, are set separately in Table 7.11B under subsection (a), scaled by road classification and whether the driveway serves one, two, or three residences.

Permanent pavement must extend at least to the end of the driveway's curb radius or the right-of-way line, whichever is farther, under subsection (e). These rules apply to the driveway connection at the county right-of-way; they are separate from the off-street parking surface standards in § 45-566, which govern multi-family, commercial and industrial parking lots rather than single-family driveways.