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Short-term rental rules in Venice, FL
How Venice 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.
- Residential-exclusion supply device: Venice LDR (Ch. 87) §6.4 Resort Dwellings — '(1) No new resort dwelling units are allowed in RE or RSF zoning districts'; only 'existing legal nonconforming resort dwellings' (one- to four-family units rented under 30 days / under 1 month) are grandfathered. Transient and short-term rental is thereby excluded from single-family residential (RE/RSF) districts
- Pre-2011 grandfather basis declared in the code: §6.4 states 'The following regulations retain the formatting and content of the City's previous Land Development Code to maintain compliance with F.S. § 509.032(7)(b)' — the code's own declaration that this pre-2011 device is carried forward (§509.032(7)(b) protects only rules adopted on or before 2011-06-01)
- 2022 restatement is content-preserving, not a substantive re-enactment: the LDR was amended-and-restated by Ord. No. 2022-15 (7-12-2022) which 'retained the original numbering system' (§6.4 formerly §86-151); the code expressly preserves the prior content to keep §509.032(7)(b) grandfather status
- state DBPR vacation-rental license + local BTR + 6% state sales tax + Sarasota County tourist-development tax all required (general/process)
Based on: City of Venice Land Development Regulations, Chapter 87 (Land Development Code), SECTION 6 (Special Considerations)
Summary of the rule
Venice LDR Ch. 87 §6.4 Resort Dwellings — '(1) No new resort dwelling units are allowed in RE or RSF zoning districts'; only existing legal nonconforming resort dwellings (1-4 family units rented for periods under 30 days) are grandfathered. §6.4 opens: 'The following regulations retain the formatting and content of the City's previous Land Development Code to maintain compliance with F.S. § 509.032(7)(b)' — the code's own declaration of pre-2011 grandfather carryover. Operative section codifier Ord. No. 2022-15, §3(Exh. B), 7-12-2022 (content-preserving amended-and-restated LDR). Residential-exclusion supply device grandfathered pre-2011.
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