Florida Administrative Code › 28 - ADMINISTRATION COMMISSION › 28 - Departmental › Chapter 28-25 - LAND PLANNING - PART III BOUNDARY AND REGULATIONS FOR BIG CYPRESS AREA OF CRITICAL STATE CONCERN › Section 28-25.006 - Site Alteration

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Site
				alteration shall be limited to 10% of the total site size, and installation of
				nonpermeable surfaces shall not exceed 50% of any such area. However, a minimum
				of 2, 500 square feet may be altered on any permitted site.
(2) Except for roads, any nonpermeable
				surface greater than 20, 000 square feet shall provide for release of surface
				run off, collected or uncollected, in a manner approximating the natural
				surface water flow regime of the area.
(3) Soils exposed during site alteration
				shall be stabilized and retention ponds or performance equivalent structures or
				systems maintained in order to retain run off and siltation on the construction
				site. Restoration of vegetation to site alteration areas shall be substantially
				completed within 180 days following completion of a development. Revegetation
				shall be accomplished with pre-existing species or other suitable species
				except that undesirable exotic species (see list below) shall not be replanted
				or propagated.
Australian pine - Casuarina equisetifolia
Bishopwood - Bischofia javanica
Brazilian pepper (holly) - Shinus terebinthifolius
Castor bean - Ricinus communis
Common papaya - Carica papaya
Common snakeplant - Sanseviera trifasciata
Day jessamine - Cestrum diurnum
Hunters robe - Rhaphidophora aurea
Melaleuca (cajeput) - Melaleuca leucadendra
Queensland umbrella tree - Schefflera actinophylla
Trailing wedelia - Wedelia trilobata
(4) No mangrove trees or salt marsh grasses
				shall be destroyed or otherwise altered. Plants specifically protected in this
				regulation include:
Red mangrove - Rhizophora mangle
Black mangrove - Avicennia nitida
White mangrove - Laguncularia racemosa
Needlerush - Juncus roemerianus
Salt cordgrasses - Spartina alterniflora, S. patens, S.
				  cynosuroides, S. spartina
Seashore saltgrass - Distichlis spicata
(5) Fill areas and related dredge or borrow
				ponds shall be aligned substantially in the direction of local surface water
				flows and shall be separated from other fill areas and ponds by unaltered areas
				of vegetation of comparable size. Dredge or borrow ponds shall provide for the
				release of storm waters as sheet flow from their downstream end into unaltered
				areas of vegetation. Access roads to and between fill areas shall provide for
				the passage of water in a manner approximately the natural flow regime and
				designed to accommodate the 50 year storm. Fill areas and related ponds shall
				not substantially retain or divert the total flow in or to a slough or strand
				or significantly impeded tidal action in any portion of the estuarine
				zone.
(6) Man-made lakes, ponds, or
				other containment works shall be constructed with a maximum slope of 30 degrees
				to a depth of six feet of water. Whenever mineral extraction is completed in
				new quarrying lakes, shoreline sloping, revegetation and disposal of spoils or
				tailings shall be completed before abandonment. Existing quarrying lakes are
				exempt from this provision, except that whenever any person carries out any
				activity defined in Section   380.04, F.S., as development or applies for a
				development permit as defined in Section   380.031, F.S., to develop any existing
				quarrying lake area, these regulations shall apply.
(7) Finger canals shall not be constructed in
				the Critical Area.
(8) This rule
				shall not apply to site alterations undertaken in connection with the
				agricultural use of land or for the conversion of land to agricultural
				use.
Rulemaking Authority  380.05 FS. Law Implemented  380.055 FS.
New 11-28-73, Formerly 22F-3.06, 27F-3.06,
					 27F-3.006.