Flagler County, FL Trash & Recycling: Dumpster Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Screening required
- At least three sides of dumpster/container area
- Materials
- Wall or fence plus vegetative screening
- Shrub growth target
- Five feet tall within one year
- Plant spacing
- No more than five feet on center
- Adopted
- Ord. No. 04-11, effective August 16, 2004
Summary
In the unincorporated stretch of State Road A1A between Beverly Beach and Marineland, Flagler County requires dumpsters and other waste containers to be screened by a wall or fence plus vegetative planting on at least three sides, with shrubs reaching five feet within a year. The standard sits in the county's A1A Scenic Corridor Overlay, separate from Palm Coast's or Flagler Beach's own codes.
C.Dumpster and waste containers. Dumpster and waste containers shall be screened by a wall or a fence with vegetative screening around it. The vegetative screening shall be installed on at least three (3) sides of the utility equipment, and shall be located outside any wall or fence. Such vegetative screening shall include shrubs which will achieve a height of five (5) feet within one (1) year, planted with a spacing not exceeding five (5) feet on center, or as an alternative, another form of vegetative screening that creates an effective visual screen.
Full Breakdown
11(C) of the Flagler County Land Development Code, part of the A1A Scenic Corridor Overlay adopted by Ord. No. 04-11 on August 16, 2004, requires that dumpsters and waste containers be screened by a wall or a fence, with vegetative screening installed around it. The vegetative screening must cover at least three sides of the container equipment and must be located outside any wall or fence, not sandwiched inside it. The plant material has to be shrubs capable of reaching five feet in height within one year of planting, spaced no more than five feet apart on center, or an alternative form of vegetative screening that achieves an equally effective visual screen.
This applies within the same overlay footprint as the corridor's other design standards: parcels fronting SR A1A between the north line of the Town of Beverly Beach and the south line of the Town of Marineland, plus specific named side streets (16th Road, Mala Compra Road, Bay Drive, Jungle Hut Road) as they existed on December 21, 2001. The screening standard is supplemental to the base zoning district's own requirements, so a commercial or industrial site in the corridor must satisfy both its underlying district rules and this added vegetative-plus-structural screen for its refuse enclosure before site plan approval is granted.
Violations & Fines
The dumpster screening standard is enforced through site plan review, not a standalone citation schedule: a nonresidential development that proposes an unscreened or under-screened waste container area in the A1A corridor does not receive site plan sign-off until the wall or fence and the required vegetative buffer are added to the plans, or until relief is granted through the LDC variance and special exception process at Section 3.07.03.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the dumpster screening rule apply anywhere in Flagler County?
Can I use a fence alone without plantings?
What happens if my site plan does not include the required screening?
Sources & Official References
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