Doral, FL Short-Term Rentals: Night Caps (2026)

The registration cap in section 5-271(a)(3) is the mechanism Doral uses to limit how often any one dwelling cycles through short-term occupancy. Each registration is tied to a single rental period, meaning it does not authorize ongoing or repeated rentals; a new registration application must be filed for every separate stay. The code then hard-caps the count: no more than three registrations may be issued for the same single-family, two-family, multi-family, or townhome unit within any 12-month period. Once an owner has registered a property three times in that rolling year, no further registration will issue for that address until enough time passes for one of the earlier registrations to fall outside the 12-month window.

The cap sits alongside the separate seven-day floor in section 5-271(a)(4), which bars any rental of these dwelling types for fewer than seven days; together the two provisions mean a single dwelling can be legally rented as a short-term unit for at most three stays, each running at least seven days, in a given year. Applications for each of those three registrations still go through the same process: a formal submission to the city manager or designee under section 5-271(a)(3), the acknowledgements and documentation required by section 5-271(a)(5), and payment of the fee under section 5-271(a)(5)h.

Because the article does not distinguish an owner's own use from paid rentals for cap-counting purposes, and describes no waiver or variance procedure for exceeding three registrations in a year, the limit functions as an absolute ceiling rather than a guideline the city manager can relax.