Titusville, FL Zoning Overlays & Bonuses: Downtown Design Guide (2026)

Adopted as a hybrid, form-based code for the Downtown Community Redevelopment Area (DCRA), Titusville's DMU Smart Code applies its regulatory standards through guiding principles rather than a single design manual. Sec. 28-31 lists sixteen principles that City staff, boards, agencies and Council must weigh in every downtown decision: development should be compact, pedestrian-oriented and mixed-use; daily activities should sit within walking distance of most dwellings; interconnected streets, alleys, sidewalks and greenways should disperse traffic; a range of housing types and price levels should serve diverse ages and incomes; and architecture and landscape design should reflect Titusville's climate, topography and building practice, among others.

Sec. 28-44 translates those principles into four geographic sub-districts within the DCRA. Uptown, at the district's north end along U.S. 1, gets the highest density and height allowances, typically up to five stories with up to ten stories permitted for multifamily, hotel or transit-oriented projects approved by City Council on DCRA recommendation; its frontage types include stoops, dooryards, forecourts, shopfronts, galleries and arcades. Civic Waterfront requires water-dependent or water-related uses open to the public at least ten hours a day. The Residential Historic District, the City's largest concentration of historic homes, keeps low-density detached housing with deep, variable setbacks and one-to-two-story buildings. Downtown itself, the DCRA's core, is meant to carry the highest densities, intensities and heights of any sub-district. Design review runs through the Development Review Committee for projects up to 1.5 acres or 10,000 square feet, with the DCRA itself approving anything larger, and appeals of a design decision go to the DCRA within 30 days under Sec. 28-33.