Artificial turf in North Myrtle Beach, SC, planned for the city's pervious-surface test.

Make room for the putts you want to practice.

Choose useful putt lengths and where you want to stand before adding cups or a fringe. Around a patio, leave enough walking room to keep the rest of the yard usable. We’ll discuss the layout and turf options before the installation is priced.

For a golf-community property, bring the current association requirements. A nearby completed green does not establish what is permitted on your lot.

Barefoot Resort sits inside North Myrtle Beach and covers dozens of neighborhoods, all under one master association. Single-family sections include Bridle Ridge, Brookstone, Cedar Creek, Coquina Pointe, Dye Estates, LeatherLeaf, Longbridge, Oak Pointe, Park Hill, Somerset and Sweetbriar. Multi-family sections include Arbor Trace, Blackwater Townhomes, Clearwater Bay, Cypress Bend, Dye Townhomes, Edgewater, Greenbriar, Harbour Cove, Havens, Heron Bay & Egret Run, Ironwood, River Crossing, Tanglewood, Townes at Barefoot, Wedgewood, Willow Bend and Woodlands. The Barefoot Resort Residential Association's master architectural guidelines, revised June 1, 2025, ban artificial turf and vegetation resort-wide, on top of the city's pervious-surface rule above. Dye Estates and LeatherLeaf each have their own review committee; see putting greens on the Grand Strand for Dye Estates' own exception. Everywhere else in Barefoot, check with your neighborhood's management company before planning a green.

Include the operating plan in the estimate.

For a hotel lawn, condo courtyard or common area, identify the authorized property representative and discuss access while work is underway. Note delivery routes, storage and any space that must remain available to residents or guests.

Describe traffic, pet use and the intended cleaning routine so the proposed turf system can be considered for that job. For a beach-side site, discuss debris and blown sand as part of maintenance.

Get the City’s answer for the complete installation.

North Myrtle Beach has requirements governing how surfaces count toward lot coverage. Ask the City what applies to your property type and whether it needs product information or construction details for the proposed turf system.

Treat grading, drainage and associated work as part of that discussion. Bring the written requirements to the estimate; turf’s product description alone does not establish how the City will classify the finished installation.

Impervious until you show otherwise.

Since 6 October 2025, North Myrtle Beach treats a surface on a house or duplex lot as impervious unless it passes Sec. 23-129.4. To count as pervious it must let water through into the ground, show an infiltration rate of at least two inches per hour on manufacturer testing or accepted industry standards, go in to the manufacturer's specification, pass inspection and be maintained. Miss any of those and it counts as impervious, "regardless of material type or labeling" (City of North Myrtle Beach code).

The rule never says artificial turf, but it decides how turf is counted. The permit application has to include the manufacturer's specifications and construction details, and the city inspects the base materials (ordinance text, first reading). At the second reading, planning staff told council it only affects a permit once a lot's pervious ratio would be exceeded (council minutes, 6 October 2025).

It covers single-family and duplex lots that don't go through a site-specific development plan. Before you apply, ask whoever installs your turf for the manufacturer's infiltration data and a drawing of the base, since both go in with the application.

Cherry Grove Beach, Ocean Drive Beach and Windy Hill Beach are wards of the city, not separate towns — the code names them as three of the four historic beach communities combined to form North Myrtle Beach, so Sec. 23-129.4 and the stormwater fee above apply there exactly as anywhere else in the city. The only rule that singles any of them out by name is the Activity Center Overlay, which relaxes commercial parking within a third of a mile of Sea Mountain Highway and Spring Street in Cherry Grove, Main Street and Hillside Drive in Ocean Drive, and 37th Avenue South and Seaview Street in Windy Hill — a business-parking allowance, not a yard rule (zoning code, chapter 3). A lot east of Ocean Boulevard in any of the three also falls under the Coastal Protection Overlay's erosion and beach-safety rules, on top of the pervious-surface test, the same as any other oceanfront lot in the city.

On a commercial lot, hard surface shows up on the bill.

Commercial, multifamily and institutional sites sit outside that test. They go through the city's site-plan process, which carries its own, more rigorous stormwater requirements (City of North Myrtle Beach).

From 1 July 2026, the city's stormwater fee is $10.00 a month for a house, $7.50 for a condo and $10.00 per ERU for commercial property (City of North Myrtle Beach). An ERU works out to roughly 3,500 square feet of impervious area (city budget sheet). For a house the fee is flat, so turf won't change it. On a commercial site, every ERU the city counts as hard surface is on the monthly bill.

So before a daycare play yard, a hotel lawn or an HOA common area goes in, ask the city in writing how it will count the turf. We install commercial turf for all three.