Nassau County, FL Special Events & Permits: Parklets (2026)
Key Facts
- Where allowed
- Only inside the Timber to Tides Design Overlay
- Corridor
- SR 200/A1A from I-95 to Yulee/Nassau Villages
- Width
- Matches parking lane, eight feet per the code
- Condition
- Requires existing on-street parking
- Approval path
- Site engineering plan review, not a special-event permit
Summary
Nassau County only recognizes parklets inside the Timber to Tides Design Overlay, the SR 200/A1A corridor running through Yulee and East Nassau. The Land Development Code lets pedestrian space push into an on-street parking lane there through bulb-outs, mid-block plazas or parklets, sized to match the parking lane, eight feet in the code's own example.
d.Extension zone: the area where pedestrian space may be extended into the parking lane, via features such as bulb-outs with mid-block plazas, or parklets. This zone is applicable when there is on-street parking, and the width is that of the parking lane, typically eight (8) feet.
Full Breakdown
The Land Development Code's sidewalk-zone rules for the Timber to Tides Design Overlay (T2TDO) divide the public right-of-way along a sidewalk into five sub-zones: frontage, throughway, furnishing, edge and extension. d defines the extension zone as the space where pedestrian activity can push out into the parking lane through features like bulb-outs with mid-block plazas, or parklets, but only where on-street parking already exists; the zone's width matches the parking lane, eight feet in the code's example. This is a site-design standard, not a temporary special-event permit: a parklet built under this section goes through the same site engineering plan review the county applies to all new development and redevelopment inside the T2TDO, covering Corridor Gateway at I-95, Historic Yulee at US-17, and Nassau Villages at Amelia Concourse.
Outside that overlay, the county's code does not use the word 'parklet' anywhere, so a business elsewhere in unincorporated Nassau County has no comparable ordinance to point to for converting curbside parking into public seating or plaza space. d. e.
Violations & Fines
Because parklets in the T2TDO are approved through site engineering plan review rather than a separate license, building one without an approved plan is treated as a zoning violation like any other. Under LDC section 4.01, the code enforcement officer investigates; section 4.02 requires written notice naming the violated section and the steps needed to fix it; and section 4.03 lets the Board of County Commissioners seek a circuit court injunction if the noncompliant structure stays in place.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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