Apopka Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Apopka and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that Florida law starts out on your side, because Fla. Stat. § 509.032(7)(b) says a local government "may not prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation rentals." Apopka, sitting in Orange County about 15 miles northwest of downtown Orlando, has never passed a vacation rental ordinance at all. There's no city permit to apply for, no registry to join, and no annual inspection.

The catch lives in the zoning, and it's a real one. Apopka replaced its old land development code with a brand new one that took effect on March 6, 2019, and that code sorts every land use into a table. Overnight stays of under 30 days land in a category the code calls Visitor Accommodation Uses, which covers hotels, motels and campgrounds, and those are allowed in commercial and mixed-use districts rather than in the single-family districts where most Apopka houses actually sit. The one overnight-guest use the code lets into a residential neighborhood is a bed and breakfast, and only with a special exception hearing.

So Apopka is neither the open market some listing sites suggest nor a city that has banned anything. It's a city whose 2019 code simply never contemplated your Airbnb, which leaves you negotiating with a use table rather than filling in a form. Let's walk through what that actually takes: which districts allow what in 2026, what the state licence costs, the three separate taxes stacked on every booking, how the city enforces when a neighbor complains, and who to call when you get stuck. Before you buy anything on the strength of a nightly rate, run the property through BNBCalc first.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Apopka, Florida?

The first of those questions, what the rules say, splits into two layers, and separating them clears up most of the confusion around this city.

The bottom layer is Florida law, and it's genuinely permissive. Fla. Stat. § 509.242(1)(c) defines a "vacation rental" as a condo or cooperative unit, or a single-family through four-family dwelling, that's also a transient public lodging establishment, and § 509.241 requires every one of them to hold a state licence.

Chapter 2025-113, better known as SB 606, moved the line between transient and nontransient with effect from July 1, 2025. The Senate's own bill summary records the new test. A rental counts as transient once it's rented more than three times in a calendar year for periods of less than 30 consecutive days, counted in consecutive days rather than calendar months, and a stay is now presumed temporary unless a written lease says otherwise. That test decides whether you need the state licence at all.

The top layer is Apopka's Land Development Code, and this is where the trouble starts. The city runs a permissive use table, so a use is allowed only where the table says it is. Table 4.2.2.C, the Principal Use Table, lists exactly two visitor accommodation use types, bed and breakfast and hotel or motel, and its own legend states that "a blank cell under a base or the planned development district column indicates that the use is prohibited as a principal use or special exception in the zoning district." Neither "vacation rental" nor "short-term rental" appears anywhere in that table.

Now, the definitions are what make this bite. Article 10 of the LDC puts Visitor Accommodation Uses in a category covering "lodging units or rooms for short-term stays of typically less than 30 days for rent, lease, or interval occupancy." Household Living Uses, the category your house falls into, describes residential occupancy "arranged on a month-to-month or longer basis." And a hotel or motel is defined there as a building offering sleeping accommodations "intended primarily for use by transient persons or tourists on an overnight or short-term lodging basis."

Read those three side by side and a whole-home nightly rental looks a lot more like the first than the second.

Since the use isn't listed, somebody has to decide which category it belongs to, and the code names that person. Under LDC 10.3.2.B, the Community Development Director may treat an unlisted use as permitted or as a special exception only after finding that "the nature, function, and duration of the use and the impact of allowing it" are so similar to a listed use that it should be handled the same way. The word "duration" is doing quiet work in that sentence.

A formal written interpretation is requested under LDC 2.5.6, it binds later city decisions on the same provision, the Director keeps every one of them in a book open to public inspection, and you can appeal it to City Council.

One tension is worth flagging rather than papering over. The state preemption above doesn't reach local laws "adopted on or before June 1, 2011," and Apopka's current code took effect in 2019, so it doesn't sit inside that grandfather window on its face. I found no Apopka ordinance, court ruling or published interpretation resolving how those two things interact, and nothing in the code says short-term rentals are prohibited in words. That's exactly why a written interpretation for your specific parcel is worth more than any article, this one included.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Apopka

That interpretation is the whole ballgame, which means the first thing to do isn't shopping for furniture. It's pulling up the zoning district on the parcel you own or want to buy.

Going through Table 4.2.2.C district by district, here's where the two listed visitor accommodation uses can actually go:

• Hotel or motel is permitted in RMU (Residential Mixed-Use), C-C (Community Commercial), C-R (Regional Commercial), MU-D (Mixed-Use Downtown) and all three MU-ES East Shore subdistricts, and may be allowed inside a Planned Development if the PD Plan approves it.
• Bed and breakfast is permitted outright in MU-D and in the MU-ES Gateway and Research/Technology/Education subdistricts, and is a special exception in AG (Agriculture), RCE (Residential Country Estate), RSF-1A and RSF-1B (the two single-family districts) and RTF (Residential Two-Family).
• Nothing at all in the visitor accommodation category is allowed in the transitional, multi-family, mobile home park, neighborhood commercial, office, corridor commercial, light and heavy industrial, institutional, parks or airport districts.

So the residential door exists, but it's a narrow one, and the bed and breakfast standards in LDC 4.3.4.B.3 show why it won't fit a typical Airbnb business. The owner or a member of the owner's immediate family has to live in the dwelling as a primary residence and manage the use. Guest rooms cap at five. Any single stay is limited to "no more than two weeks in any one visit." No more than two nonresident people may be employed on site.

You owe one extra parking space per rentable guestroom on top of what the house already needs, the interior has to stay convertible back to a plain single-family home, and the code goes as far as requiring that the property be landscaped "to eliminate outward signs of transient use," with one permitted sign no bigger than two feet by three.

Renting out a backyard unit doesn't get you around any of that either. Accessory dwelling units are themselves a special exception, allowed only in MU-D, AG, RCE and RSF-1A on lots of at least an acre outside downtown, and LDC 4.2.3.C.1.b makes you record a declaration of restrictions in the Orange County public records before the building permit issues.

That declaration must state that the ADU "shall not be used for commercial purposes other than being leased for residential purposes," and that the owner occupies either the main house or the unit. A month-to-month tenant fits comfortably inside that language. A rotating cast of weekend guests is a much harder argument.

Now for the trap that catches more people here than any zoning district does. Plenty of addresses with an Apopka mailing address sit in unincorporated Orange County, not in the city, and the county's rules are stricter and far more explicit. The Orange County Zoning Division states that short-term rental is permitted only in "Commercial C-1, C-2, C-3, and Industrial I-1A, I-1 / I-5, I-2 / I-3, and I-4 zoning districts, or in Planned Developments (PD) where short-term rental is expressly permitted," that single-family transient rental under 30 days is allowed "only in the R-3 district," and that "in all other zoning districts, short-term rental and single-family transient rental shall be prohibited."

Make sure you confirm which government you're actually in before you spend a dollar, because our Orange County guide covers a completely different rulebook from this one.

If the whole-home nightly model is what you came for, the honest advice is to look south. Kissimmee and the Four Corners area have subdivisions that were platted and zoned for exactly this, and the Osceola County guide walks through how that works. North of Apopka, the Seminole County guide covers the Lake Mary and Sanford side of the metro.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Apopka

Once you know which district you're in and which use you're claiming, the licensing stack becomes easier to sort out, because it runs top down rather than the other way around.

The state licence comes first. A vacation rental under § 509.242 is licensed by the DBPR Division of Hotels and Restaurants in one of two classifications, Vacation Rental Dwelling or Vacation Rental Condo, and it renews annually on a staggered schedule.

Per the Division's lodging fee schedule, a new single-unit licence runs a $50 application fee plus $170 for a full year or $90 for a half year, a licence covering 2 to 25 units is $180 for a full year, and a collective licence held by an agent for multiple owners is $150 plus $10 per unit. A $10 Hospitality Education Program fee rides on every one of them.

Apopka's own requirement is a business tax receipt, and it is a tax rather than a permission. Sec. 66-99 requires anyone engaging in a business in the city to obtain one from the community development department, charges a $10 nonrefundable application fee, and then says plainly that issuing it "shall in no case be deemed authority to conduct an occupation, business or profession in contravention of any other provision of this Code."

Sec. 66-107 doubles down: paying the tax doesn't authorize a business the ordinances prohibit. Do keep that distinction straight, because a receipt in your file is not a zoning approval and nobody at the counter will pretend otherwise.

The rate for lodging is unusual enough to note. Category 54 of the Sec. 66-116 schedule covers "hotel or motel (including apartments, roominghouses, etc.)" and charges $6.25 for each bedroom rented, with an asterisk noting that a state licence, registration or permit may also be required.

Receipts all expire on September 30 (Sec. 66-103), one issued on or after April 1 costs half the annual amount (Sec. 66-104), a transfer to a new owner or location costs ten percent of the annual tax with a $3 floor and a $25 ceiling, and a replacement copy is $3. The city's business tax receipt page routes applications through the OpenGov permitting portal and tells you to obtain an Orange County business tax receipt separately.

Chasing the bed and breakfast special exception is a different order of effort. LDC 2.5.1.G requires an informational meeting and a pre-application community meeting before you even submit, then Development Review Committee review, then a quasi-judicial hearing at which the Planning Commission approves, approves with conditions, or denies.

The city's Planning and Zoning Procedures Manual fills in the practical detail:

• DRC review takes at least 15 business days, and the committee meets Wednesdays at 9 a.m. at City Hall.
• The Planning Commission meets the second Tuesday of the month at 5:30 p.m.
• You mail hearing notice by US certified mail at least 14 calendar days out, and post a sign on the property.
• A fourth resubmittal may cost another application fee.

On top of the application fee itself, the manual requires a $5,000 pass-through deposit for external legal review, refundable to the extent it goes unused.

Two clocks start once you win. A development order approving a special exception expires if the use isn't established or substantially commenced within two years, and it also expires if the approved use stops and isn't resumed for a year.

Required Documents for Apopka Short-Term Rentals

Since that $5,000 deposit and the hearing calendar make a failed application expensive, it's worth assembling the paperwork before you file anything at all.

For the city business tax receipt, the application page asks for a Fictitious Name Certificate or Corporation State Certificate from Sunbiz, any applicable state licences (your DBPR vacation rental licence is the one that matters here), and a federal employer identification number where you have one. Everything moves through an OpenGov account, the city invoices you after review, and commercial locations pick up a Fire Department inspection fee that a house won't.

For a special exception, the Procedures Manual lists three minimum submittals, and each takes real lead time:

• Evidence and a written summary of the community meeting, including the attendee list and a summary of the comments raised.
• A signed and sealed boundary survey, metes and bounds included.
• A site plan, which for a bed and breakfast has to show the extra parking space you owe per guestroom.

You'll also be answering the twelve review standards in LDC 2.5.1.G.4 in writing, one by one. They ask whether the use will be compatible with the general character of surrounding lands, whether it screens or buffers adverse visual impacts, whether it avoids significant odor, noise, glare and vibration impacts, whether it harms neighboring land values, and whether it overburdens streets, schools, water, sewer, stormwater, police and fire. Remember that a Planning Commission hearing is quasi-judicial, so those answers become the record your approval stands or falls on.

Two more documents belong in the folder, even though neither is a city form. One is the DBPR licence itself. The other is your Orange County Tourist Development Tax registration, which brings us to the money.

Apopka Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get through all that and are able to start hosting, there's still tax to deal with, and it arrives from three directions at once. Two of the three go to Tallahassee and one goes to the county, which is why hosts so often remit part of it and miss the rest.

Charge	Rate	Collected by
Florida sales tax on transient rentals	6%	Florida Department of Revenue
Orange County discretionary sales surtax	0.5%	Florida Department of Revenue
Orange County Tourist Development Tax	6%	Orange County Comptroller
Total on a stay of six months or less	12.5%	Two remitters, state and county

The 6% state rate comes from the Department of Revenue's own guidance in brochure GT-800034, which makes rental charges for living, sleeping or housekeeping accommodations of six months or less taxable at the general state rate plus any county surtax. Orange County's surtax is listed at 0.5% on Form DR-15DSS, and that form's county notes record the half-cent school capital outlay surtax as extended effective January 1, 2026 and running to December 31, 2035. The county's transient rental tax appears on Form DR-15TDT at 6.0% with "County" in the collected-by column, meaning it never touches a state return.

That last one has its own rulebook. The Orange County Comptroller's tourist development tax pages put the rate at 6% effective September 1, 2006, authorized under Fla. Stat. § 125.0104, and place the duty to collect on whoever collects the rental charge from the guest, owner or not. Returns are monthly, due on the first and delinquent after the 20th, and one is required every month even when you took no bookings.

File and pay electronically and on time and you may deduct a collection allowance of 2.5% of the first $1,200 of tax, capped at $30; file on paper or pay late and you lose it. Miss the deadline and the penalty is 10% of the tax due or $50, whichever is greater, plus interest. Keep your records for three years and expect an audit to happen inside Orange County.

One warning from the Comptroller's own FAQ deserves repeating. Where a property manager files a consolidated return covering your unit, "you should be aware that as the property owner, you are ultimately responsible for the required tax being paid," and their failure can produce penalties against you. Rent the same property directly alongside the manager and you need your own separate account for those bookings.

Platform collection covers only part of this. Airbnb operates as a marketplace facilitator for Florida sales tax under § 212.05965 and remits the state portion, though whether a platform also collects a county's tourist development tax depends on a deal struck with that specific county's tax collector. I could not confirm a current Orange County agreement for either Airbnb or Vrbo as of July 2026, so do check your own payout detail line by line rather than assuming the 6% is handled. Florida charges no personal income tax, at least, so your profit only meets a federal return.

Apopka Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Two of those three taxes come from the state, and that ratio is a fair picture of the whole regime: most of what governs an Apopka short-term rental was written in Tallahassee rather than at 120 East Main Street.

The preemption in § 509.032(7)(b) is the load-bearing piece. It bars any local law that prohibits vacation rentals or regulates their duration or frequency, and it exempts local laws "adopted on or before June 1, 2011," which municipalities may keep enforcing. Everything outside that narrow axis stays local. Cities keep their ordinary zoning, life-safety, building code and noise powers, which is precisely the space Apopka's use table occupies. Our Florida statewide guide traces how that split plays out across the rest of the state.

Two legislative near-misses are worth carrying in your head, because both get quoted as though they passed. A 2024 package would have expanded the preemption and created a statewide registration and advertising-platform framework, and neither half became law: HB 1537 was laid on the table on March 5, 2024, while SB 280 passed both chambers and was vetoed on June 27, 2024.

Then in 2026, a water-safety bill would have required vacation rental licensees within 150 feet of a pool or water body to install safety features and certify compliance at licensure; SB 658 passed the Senate 37-0 on February 19, 2026 and died in Messages in the House on March 13, with its House companion dying the same day. My guess is that the water-safety idea comes back in 2027, since a 37-0 Senate vote rarely goes away quietly, but nothing in it is law today.

Inside the city, the rules that reach you are general rather than rental-specific. LDC 3.1.1 says land "shall not be developed except in accordance with the zoning district regulations of this article," and LDC 9.3.2.B makes it a violation to "occupy or use land or a structure without first obtaining all appropriate development orders." That second one is the hook a code officer would reach for, and note that it targets the use, not the building.

Does Apopka Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

A hook only matters if somebody pulls it, so the practical question is what happens after a neighbor gets tired of the Friday arrivals.

Apopka enforces by complaint rather than by patrol, and its own Code Enforcement page describes a deliberately gentle first step: a "good neighbor" voluntary compliance approach in which a courtesy notice with written instructions is left at the property. Ignore it and a notice of violation or written warning follows. Ignore that and the case goes to a special magistrate hearing, where the city warns that "continuing violations may result in severe non ad-valorem assessments, fines, liens and foreclosure."

The numbers behind that warning are where casual non-compliance stops being cheap. Under Sec. 2-216(b)(1), a special magistrate fine "shall not exceed $1,000.00 per day for a first violation and shall not exceed $5,000.00 per day for a repeat violation," rising to $15,000 per violation for anything irreparable or irreversible. That's not a one-time ticket. It accrues daily, and unpaid orders can be recorded as liens against the property.

A code officer can also issue a civil citation on the spot, capped at $500 under Sec. 2-225, and the general penalty in Sec. 1-14 allows a fine up to $500 or 60 days, with each day a violation continues counting as a separate offense.

The Director has other tools that hurt in less obvious ways. LDC 9.5.3 lets the city issue a stop order, revoke a development order procured by false representation, apply to the Circuit Court of Orange County for an injunction, seek an order of abatement, and, the quiet one, "deny or withhold authorization to use or develop any land, structure, or improvements until an alleged violation related to such land, structure, or improvements is corrected and any associated civil penalty is paid."

An open short-term rental case can therefore stall the pool permit or the addition you wanted next. Remedies are cumulative and may be exercised in any order.

There's a limit on what I can tell you here, though. Apopka publishes no short-term rental enforcement statistics that I could find, no case counts, no fine totals, and no listing sweeps, so I'm not going to guess at how aggressive the city is in practice. What the code gives it is real power that runs on complaints, which in a residential neighborhood means the risk profile is set by your neighbors rather than by the city's appetite.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Apopka

Given how much of that risk turns on the zoning question, the order of these steps matters more than it looks. The early ones tell you whether the later ones are worth paying for.

1. Confirm the property is inside the city. An Apopka mailing address is not proof of it. Unincorporated Orange County has its own, stricter list of districts, so settle this before anything else.
2. Look up the parcel's zoning district, then check it against Table 4.2.2.C. RMU, C-C, C-R, MU-D and the MU-ES subdistricts permit a hotel or motel use. The single-family districts do not.
3. Request a written interpretation under LDC 2.5.6 if you're in a residential district and still want to proceed. It's binding on the city's later decisions, it's cheaper than a hearing, and a written "no" saves you the purchase.
4. Read the HOA documents and any plat restrictions. Nothing in the LDC or the state statute stops a homeowners association from banning nightly rentals outright, and in Central Florida plenty of them do.
5. Budget the special exception properly if a bed and breakfast is your route. That means the application fee, the $5,000 pass-through legal deposit, a sealed survey, a site plan and certified mailings, and a calendar that runs a community meeting, then at least 15 business days of DRC review, then a 14-day notice period ahead of a Planning Commission that only sits once a month.
6. Get the DBPR vacation rental licence in the right classification, dwelling or condo, and diarize the annual renewal.
7. Register with the Florida Department of Revenue for sales tax and with the Orange County Comptroller for the tourist development tax. Don't forget that the county return is due monthly even in a month with zero bookings.
8. Apply for the city business tax receipt through the OpenGov portal, at $6.25 per rented bedroom plus the $10 application fee, and get the separate Orange County receipt.
9. Run the numbers against comparable markets before you commit. The Florida short-term rental market data shows what the legal, purpose-zoned pockets down toward Kissimmee actually earn, which is the fair comparison for an Apopka property that needs a hearing to operate at all.

Who to Contact in Apopka about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Step three on that list is a phone call more than a form, so here are the people who answer it. City Hall sits at 120 East Main Street and the main switchboard is 407-703-1700, with a fax line at 407-703-1705.

Planning and Zoning Division, for zoning districts, use interpretations and special exceptions:

• Address: 120 E. Main St, Second Floor, Apopka, FL 32703
• Phone: 407-703-1712
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., per the city's Planning and Zoning Division page

Business Tax Receipts, for the city receipt and the OpenGov application:

• Address: 120 E. Main Street, Apopka, FL 32703
• Phone: 407-703-1719
• Email: [email protected]
• Online: the business tax receipt page links the portal and lists the required Sunbiz and state-licence documents

Code Enforcement, which sits inside the Building-Safety Department and is who a neighbor calls about you:

• Address: 120 E Main Street, Apopka, FL 32703
• Phone: 407-703-1738 during business hours, 407-703-1757 after hours
• Hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Orange County Comptroller, Tourist Development Tax, for registration, returns and audits:

• Mailing address: P.O. Box 4958, Orlando, FL 32802-4958
• Phone: 407-836-5715
• Fax: 407-836-5626

Orange County Zoning Division, if your property turns out to be unincorporated: 407-836-3111 or [email protected], with appointments booked at least 24 hours ahead and walk-ins not accepted after 4:45 p.m.

One gap I'll own rather than paper over. DBPR's Division of Hotels and Restaurants blocked every attempt to open its pages during this research, and the Internet Archive returned errors too, so I'm not printing a phone number for the state licensing office that I couldn't read on an official page myself. Apply through the division's own licensing site and take the contact details from there.

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Apopka on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Those phone numbers answer the legal question. What they don't answer is whether anybody is actually doing this in Apopka, which is where the investor forums earn their keep.

One caveat on method first. Reddit blocks automated access and its platform terms don't permit the commercial use this would need, so nothing below comes from Reddit threads. What follows is my reading of public investor discourse, plus one BiggerPockets thread I read directly.

On BiggerPockets, the most useful thread on the Orlando short-term rental market has local realtor Courtney Bass drawing the map bluntly. The market, she writes, "is centered in Kissimmee and Davenport areas and many communities are set up for this and allow it," while "as you edge in to dr. Phillips, Windermere and Orlando in general, it is not permitted, though some people get away with it as Airbnb." Her advice is one sentence long: "The safest bet is to pick up something already zoned Str."

A few themes recur once you read enough of these threads, and they line up with what the code says:

• Investors treat the north side of the metro as long-term rental country. Apopka comes up constantly as an appreciation and buy-and-hold market, and almost never as a nightly-rate market. The population growth is the draw, not the tourism.
• "Some people get away with it" is the sentiment, not "it's allowed." That phrasing matters. Operating on the theory that nobody has complained yet is a bet on your neighbors, and the fines here compound daily.
• The purpose-zoned subdivisions keep winning the argument. Buying inside a community platted for short-term rental removes the zoning question entirely, which is why experienced Central Florida operators pay a premium for one.
• HOA rules end more of these plans than city codes do. In a metro this full of deed-restricted subdivisions, the covenant is often the binding constraint, and no state preemption touches it.

Take that last point seriously if you're weighing an Apopka purchase. The city's use table is only the first of two locks on the door, and the second one isn't at City Hall.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Apopka, Florida in 2026?

Not by right in a normal residential district. Apopka has no vacation rental ordinance, but its Land Development Code allows overnight stays of under 30 days only as a hotel, motel or bed and breakfast, and those sit in commercial and mixed-use districts. A bed and breakfast is a special exception in the agricultural, country estate, single-family and two-family districts, requires the owner or their immediate family to live on site, and caps any single stay at two weeks. Anything else needs a written interpretation from the Community Development Director.

Does Apopka require a short-term rental permit or licence?

Apopka issues no short-term rental permit, because it has never adopted a vacation rental ordinance. What it does require is a business tax receipt from the community development department, which costs a $10 nonrefundable application fee plus $6.25 for each bedroom rented under the hotel and motel category. That receipt is a tax, not zoning permission. Separately, Florida requires a state vacation rental licence from the DBPR Division of Hotels and Restaurants for any dwelling rented more than three times a year for stays under 30 days.

What taxes apply to a short-term rental in Apopka?

Three layers stack to 12.5% on stays of six months or less: 6% Florida sales tax and a 0.5% Orange County discretionary sales surtax, both remitted to the Florida Department of Revenue, plus a 6% Orange County Tourist Development Tax remitted directly to the Orange County Comptroller. The county tax is filed monthly, due on the first and delinquent after the 20th, and a return is required even in months with no bookings. Airbnb collects the state sales tax as a marketplace facilitator; confirm the county tax on your own payout detail.

What are the penalties for an illegal short-term rental in Apopka?

Apopka enforces by complaint through a special magistrate. Fines cannot exceed $1,000 per day for a first violation or $5,000 per day for a repeat violation, and reach $15,000 per violation where the violation is irreparable or irreversible. Each day counts as a separate offense, unpaid orders can become liens, and the city can also issue a civil citation up to $500. On top of that, the Director may withhold other permits on the property until the violation is corrected and the penalty paid.

Is my Apopka address actually inside the city limits?

Often not, and it changes which rules apply. Large areas of unincorporated Orange County carry Apopka mailing addresses, and the county permits short-term rental only in the C-1, C-2, C-3 and several industrial districts or in Planned Developments where it is expressly allowed, with single-family transient rental under 30 days limited to the R-3 district and prohibited everywhere else. Confirm jurisdiction with the Orange County Zoning Division at 407-836-3111 before relying on any city rule.

Last verified: July 2026. Every ordinance, tax rate, state law, and contact detail in this guide links to or comes from its official source.