Titusville, FL Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Permits (2026)

Sec. 28-9 makes it unlawful for the owner of a single-family detached dwelling to rent or lease it to another person for periods of three months or less, or to rent it more than four times in any twelve-month period; renting more than four times in a year creates a legal presumption that the owner is violating the section. The prohibition is not citywide: it applies only inside seven zoning districts named in the section itself, Residential Estate (RE), Rural Residential (RR), Single-Family Low Density (R-1A), Single-Family Medium Density (R-1B), Single-Family High Density (R-1C), Residential Manufactured Housing (RMH-1) and Residential Historic Preservation (RHP). Multifamily, commercial and the Downtown Mixed-Use districts are not listed and are not covered by this section.

An owner who claims a vested right to keep operating an existing short-term rental despite the prohibition can submit an application for vested rights under Chapter 34, Article VII, Division 3, which the City reviews to determine whether the use was lawfully established and continuously operated before the prohibition applied to that property. Florida law generally preempts local regulation of vacation rentals under Fla. Stat. § 509.032(7), but that statute grandfathers local short-term-rental ordinances adopted on or before June 1, 2011; whether Sec. 28-9 or its predecessor falls within that grandfather clause, and to what extent, is a legal determination made case by case through the Chapter 34 vested-rights process rather than something this section resolves on its face. The City's own text does not describe Sec. 28-9 as either voided or freely enforceable; it simply states the prohibition, names the districts and provides the vested-rights route.