Tamarac, FL Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

Tamarac Code § 20-114 prohibits placing or maintaining shrubbery, aboveground sprinkler systems, mailboxes, signs, tree trimmings, refuse, concrete blocks, coral rock, pyramid-shaped cement curbstones, or any other sharp-edged, pointed, organic, nonorganic or poisonous material that could create a road or traffic hazard, or injure pedestrians, within the swale area. That swale area is defined as the ten-foot strip measured from the edge of the paved vehicular right-of-way, the same grassed buffer between the street and the sidewalk or property line that most Tamarac homes maintain.

The rule sits alongside two related right-of-way duties in the same article: § 20-112 requires property owners to keep grass and weeds in the unpaved right-of-way cut to no more than six inches, and § 20-113 requires owners to remove waste material, junk or other debris from the right-of-way abutting their property. Read together, the three sections make the swale strip the homeowner's responsibility to keep both mowed and clear of hazards, even though the land is technically public right-of-way rather than private property. Section 20-116 carves out limited exceptions to the placements article, though the prohibited list in § 20-114 itself, sharp curbstones, poisonous plantings and loose refuse among them, has no stated exception for decorative landscaping choices. The cross-reference at the end of § 20-114 points owners to Chapter 11's landscaping standards for what is allowed in the swale instead.