No. Osceola County cannot require a short-term rental to be the owner's primary residence. Florida's FS 509.032(7)(b) bars counties from prohibiting vacation rentals or restricting their duration/frequency, so non-owner-occupied and investor-owned rentals are allowed if licensed.
A vacation rental in Florida is defined broadly as any single-family through four-family dwelling used as a transient public lodging establishment (FS 509.242(1)(c)) — no owner-occupancy is built in. Because FS 509.032(7)(b) forbids counties from banning vacation rentals or capping how often they rent, Osceola County cannot impose a primary-residence-only rule. Investor-owned resort dwellings are common across the Disney/US-192 corridor. The county's leverage is licensing, inspection, occupancy, parking, noise, and the 6% tourist tax — not owner residency.
There is no residency violation to enforce; enforcement instead targets unlicensed operation, unpaid tourist tax, and occupancy/parking/noise breaches.
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