Port St. Lucie, FL Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

Chapter 54, Article I of the Port St. 20 confirms include streets, sidewalks and swales. 02(a) prohibits, unless specifically approved in writing by the city or permitted by the public works department, placing barriers or obstructions, berms, decorative walls, trees, shrubs or plantings other than turf grass, irrigation systems, or millings or loose rock within a right-of-way. 02(b) separately bars any mailbox that is not a style prescribed by the United States Postal Service or the Florida Department of Transportation's Roadway and Traffic Standards. 03(a) broadens the ban: absent a written city agreement, a city permit, or other specific legal authority, it is unlawful to place or maintain any structure, object or feature in a right-of-way, to spill, dump or deposit material there, or to block, obstruct or interrupt the flow of traffic or drainage within a right-of-way, which reaches obstructions left on a public sidewalk that force pedestrians into the street or dam a swale's flow.

03(b) gives the city authority to remove any structure, object, feature or material placed or spilled on, over or beneath a right-of-way without approval, and it bills the removal and restoration costs to the person who installed it or caused it to be installed; the city can pursue any action it deems necessary to collect those costs. The rule is separate from the newsrack standards in Article V, which set specific clearance distances from crosswalks, driveways and fire hydrants for those devices.