St. Johns County LDC 2.02.04.B.19 caps short-term rentals at two transient occupants per sleeping room or common area, with a maximum of ten per rental, excluding children twelve and under.
Florida bars local governments from regulating rental duration or frequency, but St. Johns County may cap occupancy as a health and safety standard. Its STR ordinance limits each rental to two transient occupants per sleeping room or common area, with a hard maximum of ten per unit, not counting children twelve or younger. Older rentals were phased down from 20 guests to 17, then 14, reaching the 10-guest cap by May 2024. Maximum occupancy must be stated in the lease and posted by the main entrance. Each rental also needs a fire extinguisher on every floor and must evacuate on a hurricane warning.
Exceeding the ten-guest cap is a Land Development Code violation, correctable within seven days before civil penalties set by the Board. Repeated overcrowding at one rental lets the County pursue the owner directly.
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