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Titusville commission recommends banning synthetic plants and artificial turf in landscaping

2119766 · January 16, 2025
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Summary

After months of requests and public testimony, the Titusville Environmental Commission voted to recommend that City Council prohibit synthetic plants — including artificial turf — in landscaping and yards; staff will forward the commission’s redlined language.

The Titusville Environmental Commission voted to recommend that City Council prohibit synthetic plant materials — explicitly including artificial turf — in landscaping and yards.

City staff presented a draft artificial-turf ordinance that would have allowed limited, regulated uses of synthetic turf in areas not required to meet minimum landscape-planting requirements. Commissioners and multiple public commenters contested that approach, citing research and…

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