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Short-term rental rules in Carrabelle, FL
How Carrabelle regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Cited law here affirmatively permits short-term rental operation or bars local restriction of it.
- No STR-specific provision anywhere in the Carrabelle code — no vacation-rental or short-term-rental use category, no transient-rental definition applying to dwellings, no registration or permit program, and no duration limit or residential exclusion
- Zoning permits residential dwelling use in residential districts with no transient or short-term exclusion: only commercial lodging uses (hotel/motel, resort condominiums, timeshare, bed-and-breakfast) are confined to commercial and mixed districts; nothing bars short-term rental of a dwelling
- only general/process law applies: state DBPR vacation-rental license + local business tax receipt + Franklin County tourist-development tax — none STR-specific, none a supply device
Based on: City of Carrabelle Code of Ordinances / Land Development Code (Municode; codified through Ord. No. 496, 9-5-2024, Supp.
Summary of the rule
Every Carrabelle STR owes a Florida DBPR vacation-rental license, a local business tax receipt, 6% state sales tax, and Franklin County tourist-development tax (general/process — does not move the rating).
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Last reviewed Sep 9, 2026 · Sources · Report an error
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