Tamarac, FL Short-Term Rentals: Occupancy Limits (2026)

Sec. 12-234(2) sets the maximum occupancy standard for every permitted vacation rental in the City of Tamarac. It applies two separate caps and requires the rental to observe whichever produces the lower number. Subsection a. limits occupancy to one person per one hundred fifty gross square feet of permitted, air-conditioned living space. Subsection b. separately caps occupancy at no more than two persons per bedroom, and that two-per-bedroom limit applies both in the single-family residential zoning districts and, just as much, in every other zoning district and any development predominantly built with more than two-family dwelling units.

Sec. 12-231(2) makes the responsible party the owner designates affirmatively responsible for keeping the vacation rental within these occupancy limits, cross-referencing the building official's determination under Sec. 5-206 of the Code. Sec. 12-234(4)a requires the maximum occupancy figure to be posted conspicuously inside the unit for guests to see, and Sec. 12-234(6) requires that any advertising of the rental match the permitted occupancy on file. Sec. 12-234(8) requires the posted permit itself to state the maximum occupancy alongside the responsible party's contact information. Occupancy violations carry their own escalating suspension schedule under Sec.

12-238(d): a third occupancy violation within any continuous thirty-six-month period triggers a thirty-calendar-day permit suspension, a fourth triggers a twelve-month suspension, and each further violation adds another twelve months, on top of the daily fines the city may impose under F.S. chapter 162 for operating during a suspension.