Walton County, FL Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Parking Rules (2026)

03(B) of the Walton County Land Development Code sets the on-site parking standard for single-family attached and detached short-term vacation rentals, covering both new construction and new conversions. The ratio is one off-street parking space for every six transient occupants the unit is certificated for, computed using the same 150-square-foot-gross-floor-area-per-person occupancy formula used elsewhere in the section, which works out to one parking space per 900 square feet of gross floor area. The Code lets a garage space count toward that minimum only if it stays open and available and transient occupants actually get vehicular access to it; letting a counted garage fill up with storage instead of a car is itself a Code violation.

On-street parking within a public right-of-way never counts toward the requirement and may be restricted on a private right-of-way by whoever maintains it, and any space designated to meet the on-site minimum has to sit in an area actually designated for parking rather than an incidental patch of yard. Golf carts, RVs, trailers and similar vehicles cannot occupy a space counted toward the required minimum while the property relies on street parking for its other vehicles. For a rental that was already operating before this standard took effect, the Code gives three compliance paths: cap occupancy based on the parking actually available (six occupants per space), add on-site parking through the normal permitting process, or limit how many vehicles are on the property at once through guest communication, so long as occupancy never exceeds one person per 150 square feet.