Historic Preservation in Florida (2026)
40 rules on the books across Florida, 40 cities and counties. Select a rule to read the full details.
Severity: Few Restrictions · Light Restrictions · Some Restrictions · Significant Restrictions · Heavy Restrictions
Historic-Cultural Monuments
How buildings, sites, and trees are nominated and designated as Historic-Cultural Monuments, the protections that follow, and the demolition-stay process.
Alachua County
Significant RestrictionsAlachua County's Local Public Lands Historic Preservation Ordinance bans vandalizing, excavating, removing or defacing…
Read full rule →Broward County
Significant RestrictionsBroward County's Historic Preservation Board designates historic and archaeological cultural resources, and no building…
Read full rule →Cape Coral
Significant RestrictionsCape Coral designates historic and cultural resources only through City Council under Code of Ordinances § 2-120.19…
Read full rule →Charlotte County
Significant RestrictionsCharlotte County's Historic Preservation Board can designate any prehistoric or historic building, site, structure or…
Read full rule →Coral Gables
Significant RestrictionsCoral Gables designates buildings, sites, and districts as local historic landmarks under Zoning Code Article 8, based…
Read full rule →Daytona Beach
Significant RestrictionsDaytona Beach's Historic Preservation Board and City Commission designate cultural monuments and historic sites by…
Read full rule →Fort Myers
Significant RestrictionsFort Myers can designate any building, site, or structure a local historic landmark by ordinance, even over an owner's…
Read full rule →Gulfport
Significant RestrictionsGulfport designates historic landmarks, sites and districts by ordinance after a Historic Preservation Committee…
Read full rule →Hillsborough County
Significant RestrictionsUnincorporated Hillsborough County designates historic and cultural landmarks through the Historic Resources Review…
Read full rule →Hollywood
Significant RestrictionsHollywood protects designated Historic Sites and Districts through the Historic Preservation Board: no building permit…
Read full rule →Jacksonville
Significant RestrictionsThe Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission designates landmarks, landmark sites, and historic districts for…
Read full rule →Jupiter
Significant RestrictionsJupiter's historic resources board, created under section 27-2437, reviews nominations of historic sites and districts…
Read full rule →Kissimmee
Significant RestrictionsKissimmee's Land Development Code lets the city designate individual properties as historic landmarks, protecting…
Read full rule →Lake County
Significant RestrictionsLake County makes it a crime to dig up, remove, deface or destroy any object of historical, cultural or archaeological…
Read full rule →Lee County
Significant RestrictionsLee County prohibits relocating, removing, altering, renaming or rededicating any war memorial, statue or plaque on…
Read full rule →Melbourne
Significant RestrictionsMelbourne's historic preservation ordinance treats monuments, memorials and ceremonial sites as protectable historic…
Read full rule →Miami-Dade County
Significant RestrictionsMiami-Dade County's Historic Preservation Board can designate any building, structure, landscape feature, or…
Read full rule →Miramar
Significant RestrictionsMiramar can designate a property as an archaeological or historic landmark under LDC Sec. 323 if it meets criteria such…
Read full rule →Orlando
Significant RestrictionsOrlando City Council can designate any site, building, structure, or object an Orlando Historic Landmark when it…
Read full rule →Pinellas County
Significant RestrictionsIn unincorporated Pinellas County, the Board of County Commissioners designates a property as a landmark, landmark…
Read full rule →Pompano Beach
Significant RestrictionsPompano Beach designates historic districts, structures, and sites to a Local Register of Historic Places under Code of…
Read full rule →Port St. Lucie
Significant RestrictionsPort St. Lucie protects historic and prehistoric sites under City Code § 157.31: no archaeological or historic site in…
Read full rule →St. Petersburg
Significant RestrictionsSt. Petersburg can designate a building, structure, object, or archaeological site a local landmark if it's at least 50…
Read full rule →Tampa
Significant RestrictionsTampa designates buildings, sites, structures, objects, and districts as local landmarks through its Historic…
Read full rule →Titusville
Significant RestrictionsTitusville's Historic Preservation Board can add a building, site or landscape feature to the Titusville Register of…
Read full rule →West Palm Beach
Significant RestrictionsWest Palm Beach has no separate "cultural monument" category; the closest local analog is landmark designation under…
Read full rule →Boca Raton
Some RestrictionsBoca Raton designates historic sites and districts by city council ordinance after the historic preservation board…
Read full rule →Citrus County
Some RestrictionsCitrus County can designate historic structures, sites and districts through its Historical Resources Advisory Board…
Read full rule →Collier County
Some RestrictionsCollier County's Historic/Archaeological Preservation Board designates sites, structures, districts and buildings as…
Read full rule →Escambia County
Some RestrictionsEscambia County requires any construction that could disturb a historical or archeological site, or that uncovers one…
Read full rule →Martin County
Some RestrictionsMartin County's Historic Preservation Board (HPB) must approve any historical marker or plaque before it can be placed…
Read full rule →Nassau County
Some RestrictionsNassau County's Chapter 5 creates the Amelia Island Historical Restoration and Preservation Commission, a body…
Read full rule →Palm Beach County
Some RestrictionsUnincorporated Palm Beach County designates historic sites and districts through the Historic Resources Review Board…
Read full rule →St. Johns County
Some RestrictionsSt. Johns County designates historically or culturally significant sites as County Landmarks or Landmark Districts…
Read full rule →Sumter County
Some RestrictionsLarge developments and demolitions of buildings 50 years or older in unincorporated Sumter County need a clearance…
Read full rule →Tallahassee
Some RestrictionsIndividual buildings, structures, sites, and objects that Tallahassee's Architectural Review Board finds historically…
Read full rule →Volusia County
Some RestrictionsVolusia County's Historic Preservation Board can designate buildings, sites and districts as historically…
Read full rule →Brevard County
Light RestrictionsBrevard County's Historical Commission can mark forts, Indian mounds, and other historic sites with monuments, tablets…
Read full rule →North Port
Light RestrictionsNorth Port's land development code protects only city-owned historic buildings listed on the National Register or a…
Read full rule →Pasco County
Light RestrictionsPasco County lets the building official waive standard building code requirements for structures already designated as…
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