Nassau County, FL Trash & Recycling: Dumpster Rules (2026)

6 of the Nassau County Land Development Code applies to every new commercial, industrial, multi-family or mixed-use development in the unincorporated county, requiring dumpsters and permitted mechanical equipment, a category the code spells out to include transformer pads, HVAC units, propane tanks and generators, to be screened by a wall that is one hundred percent opaque combined with landscaping. The minimum planting is one shrub every two feet, kept at least four feet tall, plus one canopy or understory tree for every ten linear feet of the screening wall or fence, unless that wall or fence runs shorter than eight feet.

The equipment has to sit at the side or rear of the building and be screened from every right-of-way, or, for rooftop equipment, sit behind a parapet or similar architectural feature that hides it from public view. Where a transformer pad has to sit along a right-of-way instead, the code accepts a hedge meeting the same shrub-height standard as an alternative to the wall on the sides facing the street. S. S. 301 and other arterial and local streets, so a project's landscape plan submitted with its site engineering or preliminary binding site plan has to show the dumpster enclosure alongside those frontage plantings.