Orange County

Operating rules

Primary residence

—

Min stay (nights)

30

Max nights / year

—

Max occupancy

—

Zoning-restricted

Yes

Cap on licenses

—

Grandfathering: Fla. Stat. 509.032(7)(b): "A local law, ordinance, or regulation may not prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation rentals." That paragraph "does not apply to any local law, ordinance, or regulation adopted on or before June 1, 2011." Orange County's zoning-based transient-rental restrictions are administered as a zoning/use scheme; whether specific provisions predate June 1, 2011 or otherwise survive preemption is a legal question outside the scope of this record.

Zoning: Orange County regulates transient/short-term rentals through its zoning code: single-family transient rental (<30 days) only in R-3; short-term rental (<=179 days) only in listed commercial/industrial districts or expressly-permitting Planned Developments; prohibited in all other districts. Administered by the Orange County Zoning Division.

• Single-family transient rental (renting a single-family dwelling for a period of less than 30 days) is permitted only in the R-3 zoning district.
• Short-term rental (length of stay of 179 days or less) 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.
• In all other zoning districts, short-term rental and single-family transient rental are prohibited.
• This record covers UNINCORPORATED Orange County only; incorporated cities (e.g., Orlando, Winter Park, Apopka, Windermere, Edgewood) have their own separate STR programs.
• A large concentration of legal nightly vacation rentals near Lake Buena Vista / the US-192 corridor sits in Planned Developments or districts where such use is expressly permitted; the general residential rule remains a 30-day minimum.
• State law: a Florida DBPR vacation rental license and Orange County Tourist Development Tax registration still apply wherever the rental is legally permitted.

Enforcement

Active enforcement

Zoning-based prohibition enforced by Orange County code enforcement; single-family rentals of less than 30 days are prohibited outside the R-3 district, and short-term rentals (179 days or less) are prohibited outside the specified commercial/industrial districts and expressly permitted Planned Developments.

Fines

—

Notes

The unincorporated Orange County short-term rental regime is a zoning restriction, not a permit-with-registration scheme: single-family transient rental (<30 days) is allowed only in the R-3 zoning district, and short-term rental (<=179 days) only in listed commercial/industrial districts or Planned Developments where expressly permitted; it is prohibited in all other zoning districts. No official county fine schedule was confirmed firsthand from an official source for this record. NOTE: The prior version of this record erroneously described an Orange County, CALIFORNIA short-term-rental permit program (pwds.oc.gov / ocpublicworks.com / myOCeServices.ocgov.com), including a two-violation one-year suspension and a County of Orange Noise Control Ordinance Section 4-6-5 (55 dB day / 50 dB night). Those facts pertain to Orange County, California and have been removed.