Miramar, FL Water Use Rules: Turf Replacement Rebates (2026)

1, Plant Material Design and Installation Standards, part of the city's landscaping article at Section 506, starts from the premise that areas not covered by structures, walks, or vehicular use must be fully landscaped with living plant material. The 10 percent rule sits inside that framework: it treats gravel, stone, concrete, asphalt, and synthetic turf as a single bucket of hardscape and non-living cover that together cannot exceed 10 percent of a landscaped area's total square footage, aside from walks and vehicular use areas that are excluded from the calculation entirely.

Synthetic turf gets a specific carve-out from that shared cap. On a single-family residential property of one acre or less, synthetic turf does not count toward the 10 percent limitation at all, as long as it complies with the synthetic turf standards the Florida Department of Environmental Protection has adopted under state statute. That exemption applies only to synthetic turf, not to the gravel, stone, concrete, or asphalt that share the same 10 percent bucket, and only to single-family lots at or under one acre; larger single-family parcels, multifamily properties, and non-residential sites remain subject to the combined 10 percent cap for all of those materials, including synthetic turf.

The rule sits alongside a broader duty in the same section that non-living landscape material cannot substitute for living plant material unless the landscape plan specifically approves it, and landscape material must extend to the edge of any abutting street pavement or to the mean water line of an adjoining canal, lake, or waterway. 1 requires a landscape permit for all landscape installations, including new single-family homes outside planned communities, a homeowner installing turf beyond the exempt one-acre threshold needs that installation reviewed against the 10 percent cap before or as part of the landscape permit process.