No. Collier County cannot require that a short-term rental be the owner's primary residence. Florida law preempts vacation-rental licensing and bars local governments from prohibiting rentals or regulating their frequency, so non-owner-occupied and investment STRs are allowed.
FS 509.032(7)(b) provides that a local ordinance may not prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rental. That prevents Collier County from imposing a primary-residence or owner-occupancy condition on short-term rentals. Whole-home and investor-owned vacation rentals are permitted in unincorporated Collier so long as they hold the county registration certificate, a state DBPR license, and a Tourist Development Tax account, and comply with generally applicable noise, parking, and property-maintenance rules. Note that guest houses under Land Development Code section 5.03.03 may not be separately leased or rented.
There is no primary-residence violation to enforce; however, renting without registration or leasing a guest house can bring code-enforcement fines.
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Collier County has no ordinance that bans or permits home composting; backyard composting is allowed and encouraged. Compost and yard debris must not become ...
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Collier County's landscaping code (LDC 4.06.05) limits artificial ground cover. Stone, gravel or any artificial ground cover may not be used for more than 20...
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Collier County's Land Development Code favors native plants: required landscaping on sites south and west of US-41 must be 100% native species, native ground...
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Rainwater harvesting is encouraged in Collier County. Plants watered by rain barrels, cisterns, low-volume micro-irrigation or hand-held hose can be watered ...
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Collier County follows South Florida Water Management District year-round rules. Odd-numbered addresses water Monday, Wednesday and Saturday; even addresses ...
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Collier County's weed and litter ordinance (Section 54-185) treats accumulation of weeds, grass or similar overgrowth over 18 inches as a violation. The coun...
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