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Short-term rental rules in Atlantic Beach, FL
How Atlantic Beach regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Short-term rentals here operate under a registration or permit system with ongoing operating rules.
- 90-day commercial-use classification device (private homes leased <90 days = hotel/motel/commercial use, excluded from residential districts) is PREEMPTED: entire Chapter 24 was repealed and re-enacted by Ord. No. 90-24-253, adopted Oct. 14, 2024, so the device's only dated adoption is post-2011-06-01 and it does not survive Fla. Stat. §509.032(7)(b)
- No pre-2011 dated ordinance survives for the current Ch. 24 text; the former Ch. 24 (derived from 2010-2019 ordinances) was expressly repealed, not carried forward with a continuity clause
- Surviving STR requirements are general/process: state DBPR vacation-rental license + local business tax receipt (city caps at Regulated ceiling absent a surviving pre-2011 supply device)
- Active code-enforcement posture (2025 enforcement debate) enforces a device now vulnerable to state preemption
Based on: Code of Ordinances Ch. 24 (Land Development Regulations) / Zoning Code — residential-district use restriction defining
Summary of the rule
90 days minimum; rentals/leases of less than 90 days prohibited (Sec. 24-81(i) 'Short-term rentals prohibited', Ord. 90-24-253 10-14-24). Applies to private homes (single-family, townhomes, duplexes, multi-family/condominiums) in residential districts; STR (<90 days) permitted only in commercial districts per Sec. 24-17
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