Port St. Lucie, Florida zoning

A plain-language summary of the Port St. Lucie zoning ordinance, organized by district and topic. Source: the official ordinance on Municode, last reviewed July 4, 2026.

Zoning districts

GUResidential
General Use
Applies to areas presently undeveloped where future use is uncertain or any other zoning would be premature (Sec. 158.060). Permits single-family homes and agricultural uses by right; allows land-extensive special exception uses (airports, mining, utility facilities, and similar) that may be transitional. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
REResidential
Estate Residential
Low-density residential of an estate character (Sec. 158.071). Twenty thousand square foot minimum lots. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RS-1Residential
Single-Family Residential
Low-density urban single-family district with the largest RS minimum lot size, fifteen thousand square feet (Sec. 158.072). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RS-2Residential
Single-Family Residential
Low-density urban single-family district, ten thousand square foot minimum lots (Sec. 158.073). The most common single-family district in the original Port St. Lucie plat. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RS-3Residential
Single-Family Residential
Low-density urban single-family district, seventy-five hundred square foot minimum lots, the smallest-lot conventional single-family district (Sec. 158.076). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RM-5Residential
Multiple-Family Residential
Low-density multiple-family district capped at five dwelling units per acre gross project density; also permits single-family and townhouse dwellings as part of a planned complex (Sec. 158.077). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RM-8Residential
Multiple-Family Residential
Medium-density multiple-family district capped at eight dwelling units per acre gross project density for multifamily and cluster single-family (Sec. 158.078). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RM-11Residential
Multiple-Family Residential
Medium-density multiple-family district capped at eleven dwelling units per acre gross project density (Sec. 158.079). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RM-15Residential
Multiple-Family Residential
High-density multiple-family district capped at fifteen dwelling units per acre gross project density (Sec. 158.080). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RMHResidential
Mobile Home Residential
Mobile home park district, ten acre minimum park size at up to five dwelling units per acre (Sec. 158.081). Includes special replacement standards for converting existing mobile home park units to detached single-family or replacement manufactured homes. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
OSRSpecial purpose
Open Space-Recreational
Public open space and recreation, including parks, golf courses, and the Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens (Sec. 158.100). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
OSCSpecial purpose
Open Space-Conservation
Conservation of open space and the natural environment with limited recreational uses such as trails, boardwalks, and boat ramps (Sec. 158.101). No minimum lot size; building coverage and height are set case by case at site plan review. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
ISpecial purpose
Institutional
Institutional uses serving City residents: schools, cemeteries, assisted living, nursing homes, funeral homes, and publicly owned buildings (Sec. 158.110). Colleges, hospitals, and public utility facilities are special exception uses. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
PCommercial
Professional
Professional office facilities, including the uses formerly designated professional commercial (Sec. 158.122). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
CNCommercial
Neighborhood Convenience Commercial
Limited convenience retail and personal services for the immediate neighborhood, capped at four acres per lot and five thousand square feet per individual use, no outdoor sales or drive-through service (Sec. 158.120). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
CGCommercial
General Commercial
General commercial facilities along established highways; incorporates most uses formerly designated shopping center commercial (CSC) and resort commercial (CR) (Sec. 158.124). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
CHCommercial
Highway Commercial
Business activities serving transients and the motoring public: service stations, motels, restaurants with drive-through service (Sec. 158.125). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
CSCommercial
Service Commercial
Citywide commercial service facilities including contractor shops, wholesale, light manufacturing/assembly, and outdoor storage yards behind an opaque fence or wall (Sec. 158.126). Includes every CG permitted use unless separately listed as a CS special exception. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
WIIndustrial
Warehouse Industrial
Warehousing, wholesale trade, and light industrial activity confined to enclosed buildings absent specific outdoor-storage exceptions (Sec. 158.135). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
INIndustrial
Industrial
General industrial activity; incorporates most uses formerly designated heavy industrial (HI), flexible industrial (FI), and light industrial (LI) (Sec. 158.136). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
UIndustrial
Utility
Major public and private utility facilities: stormwater systems, water and wastewater plants, electrical substations, telephone/cable facilities (Sec. 158.137). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
LMDMixed use
Limited Mixed Use District
Allows conversion of single-family residential lots of record to multifamily, enclosed assembly, professional/business office, or limited retail use under a conceptual plan, tied to the City's Land Use Conversion Manual (Sec. 158.155). Retail/restaurant uses are capped in size and share of building area. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
PUDSpecial purpose
Planned Unit Development
Unified, coordinated development where the adopted conceptual plan and rezoning ordinance set the actual permitted uses, densities, setbacks, and other standards; this chapter's conventional district standards apply only as defaults and are superseded by conflicting PUD-specific conditions (Secs. 158.170-158.183). Minimum PUD size is two acres. Maximum residential building height is 35 feet outside a PUD, 75 feet within a PUD over five acres, and up to 120 feet or ten stories for commercial/office/institutional uses within a PUD in the Community Redevelopment Area, each subject to a 100 percent height-to-setback ratio and master plan approval. Confirm the specific PUD's adopting ordinance and conditions before acting.
MPUDSpecial purpose
Master Planned Unit Development
Large-scale, unified new-community development tied to the New Community Development (NCD) future land use designation; governed by an approved MPUD conceptual master plan and regulation book, which prevails over this chapter's general standards where they conflict (Secs. 158.185-158.196). The Tradition community is zoned MPUD. Confirm the specific MPUD's regulation book and conditions before acting.

Code	Name	Category	Summary
GU	General Use	Residential	Applies to areas presently undeveloped where future use is uncertain or any other zoning would be premature (Sec. 158.060). Permits single-family homes and agricultural uses by right; allows land-extensive special exception uses (airports, mining, utility facilities, and similar) that may be transitional. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RE	Estate Residential	Residential	Low-density residential of an estate character (Sec. 158.071). Twenty thousand square foot minimum lots. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RS-1	Single-Family Residential	Residential	Low-density urban single-family district with the largest RS minimum lot size, fifteen thousand square feet (Sec. 158.072). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RS-2	Single-Family Residential	Residential	Low-density urban single-family district, ten thousand square foot minimum lots (Sec. 158.073). The most common single-family district in the original Port St. Lucie plat. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RS-3	Single-Family Residential	Residential	Low-density urban single-family district, seventy-five hundred square foot minimum lots, the smallest-lot conventional single-family district (Sec. 158.076). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RM-5	Multiple-Family Residential	Residential	Low-density multiple-family district capped at five dwelling units per acre gross project density; also permits single-family and townhouse dwellings as part of a planned complex (Sec. 158.077). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RM-8	Multiple-Family Residential	Residential	Medium-density multiple-family district capped at eight dwelling units per acre gross project density for multifamily and cluster single-family (Sec. 158.078). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RM-11	Multiple-Family Residential	Residential	Medium-density multiple-family district capped at eleven dwelling units per acre gross project density (Sec. 158.079). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RM-15	Multiple-Family Residential	Residential	High-density multiple-family district capped at fifteen dwelling units per acre gross project density (Sec. 158.080). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
RMH	Mobile Home Residential	Residential	Mobile home park district, ten acre minimum park size at up to five dwelling units per acre (Sec. 158.081). Includes special replacement standards for converting existing mobile home park units to detached single-family or replacement manufactured homes. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
OSR	Open Space-Recreational	Special purpose	Public open space and recreation, including parks, golf courses, and the Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens (Sec. 158.100). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
OSC	Open Space-Conservation	Special purpose	Conservation of open space and the natural environment with limited recreational uses such as trails, boardwalks, and boat ramps (Sec. 158.101). No minimum lot size; building coverage and height are set case by case at site plan review. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
I	Institutional	Special purpose	Institutional uses serving City residents: schools, cemeteries, assisted living, nursing homes, funeral homes, and publicly owned buildings (Sec. 158.110). Colleges, hospitals, and public utility facilities are special exception uses. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
P	Professional	Commercial	Professional office facilities, including the uses formerly designated professional commercial (Sec. 158.122). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
CN	Neighborhood Convenience Commercial	Commercial	Limited convenience retail and personal services for the immediate neighborhood, capped at four acres per lot and five thousand square feet per individual use, no outdoor sales or drive-through service (Sec. 158.120). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
CG	General Commercial	Commercial	General commercial facilities along established highways; incorporates most uses formerly designated shopping center commercial (CSC) and resort commercial (CR) (Sec. 158.124). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
CH	Highway Commercial	Commercial	Business activities serving transients and the motoring public: service stations, motels, restaurants with drive-through service (Sec. 158.125). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
CS	Service Commercial	Commercial	Citywide commercial service facilities including contractor shops, wholesale, light manufacturing/assembly, and outdoor storage yards behind an opaque fence or wall (Sec. 158.126). Includes every CG permitted use unless separately listed as a CS special exception. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
WI	Warehouse Industrial	Industrial	Warehousing, wholesale trade, and light industrial activity confined to enclosed buildings absent specific outdoor-storage exceptions (Sec. 158.135). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
IN	Industrial	Industrial	General industrial activity; incorporates most uses formerly designated heavy industrial (HI), flexible industrial (FI), and light industrial (LI) (Sec. 158.136). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
U	Utility	Industrial	Major public and private utility facilities: stormwater systems, water and wastewater plants, electrical substations, telephone/cable facilities (Sec. 158.137). Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
LMD	Limited Mixed Use District	Mixed use	Allows conversion of single-family residential lots of record to multifamily, enclosed assembly, professional/business office, or limited retail use under a conceptual plan, tied to the City's Land Use Conversion Manual (Sec. 158.155). Retail/restaurant uses are capped in size and share of building area. Confirm the current zoning map and the cited section text before acting.
PUD	Planned Unit Development	Special purpose	Unified, coordinated development where the adopted conceptual plan and rezoning ordinance set the actual permitted uses, densities, setbacks, and other standards; this chapter's conventional district standards apply only as defaults and are superseded by conflicting PUD-specific conditions (Secs. 158.170-158.183). Minimum PUD size is two acres. Maximum residential building height is 35 feet outside a PUD, 75 feet within a PUD over five acres, and up to 120 feet or ten stories for commercial/office/institutional uses within a PUD in the Community Redevelopment Area, each subject to a 100 percent height-to-setback ratio and master plan approval. Confirm the specific PUD's adopting ordinance and conditions before acting.
MPUD	Master Planned Unit Development	Special purpose	Large-scale, unified new-community development tied to the New Community Development (NCD) future land use designation; governed by an approved MPUD conceptual master plan and regulation book, which prevails over this chapter's general standards where they conflict (Secs. 158.185-158.196). The Tradition community is zoned MPUD. Confirm the specific MPUD's regulation book and conditions before acting.

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