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Short-term rental rules in Key Largo, FL
How Key Largo regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Rules here limit which homes may operate as short-term rentals, how many, where, or for how many nights a year.
- Hard 28-day minimum tenancy floor in residential land use districts (duration restriction)
- Outright vacation-rental prohibition in IS, URM, and IS-M residential districts
- Vacation rentals allowed only by Special Vacation Rental Permit in a limited set of districts (SR, MU, UR, IS-V, OS)
- Pre-2011 grandfathered supply/duration device (tourist-housing zoning exclusion + 1997 permit regime; 1986 grandfather cutoff) survives FL preemption
- ROGO / rate-of-growth-limited Florida Keys context caps net new inventory
Based on: Monroe County Land Development Code §134-1 (Vacation Rental Uses); special vacation-rental permit regime derived from
Summary of the rule
28 days minimum in residential districts; rentals under 28 days are a 'vacation rental' use and prohibited in IS/URM/IS-M
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Last reviewed Sep 9, 2026 · Sources · Report an error
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