Monroe County, FL Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Monroe County Code § 17-6 governs how recreational vehicles, campers, cargo vans and watercraft may sit on a residential lot in the unincorporated Keys. 01 cannot be parked or stored in the road right-of-way, inside or outside the road bed, and only one recreational vehicle-type unit is permitted on any one residential or mobile home lot; the table states in capital letters that HABITATION PROHIBITED, meaning nobody may live in the RV on the lot. Watercraft that is wrecked, inoperative, partially dismantled, decayed, abandoned, or stored on a boat trailer not ready for highway use for 30 days or more cannot be parked or stored in the right-of-way at all, and on private property must be screened completely from view from the street and from any other residential structure, and must meet the setback for the land use district or be kept in a fully enclosed garage.

Subsection (b) layers on further conditions for any vehicle or watercraft parked under this section: it must observe part II setbacks, cannot serve as habitation, and can be parked only on the same lot, or a contiguous lot, as the principal structure, and only after that structure has been built. These rules were added by Ord. No. 006-2013 and Ord. No. 041-2013.