Leon County, FL Special Events & Permits: Park Event Permits (2026)

Sec. 13-89(a) states that use of picnic area facilities, 'including picnic shelters, individual fireplaces, tables and benches, generally follows the rule of first-come, first-served,' but adds that 'this practice shall not preclude the parks and grounds supervisor from assigning or reserving these facilities for the use of particular person or groups,' which is the mechanism a group uses to lock in a shelter or gathering space ahead of a visit. Subsection (b) lets park personnel cap how long any one party can occupy a picnic area, judged against how crowded the site is, and subsection (d) requires visitors to follow park personnel's congestion-management instructions.

Sec. 13-29 gives the Board of County Commissioners authority to 'adopt by resolution a fee schedule relating to the use of park facilities and amenities,' meaning reservation and use fees are set administratively rather than fixed in the code itself. Sec. 13-27(b)(4) confirms this fee-schedule procedure is part of the article's stated purpose alongside establishing rules for recreation facilities and park management-control areas. Because Chapter 10's temporary-use rules for outdoor events with 250 or more attendees (Sec. 804) expressly exempt 'activities within any county public park, subject to the county parks and recreation division requirements and policy,' larger gatherings in a county park are handled through parks-division policy and the Sec.

13-29 fee schedule rather than the zoning temporary-use permit. A violation of the reservation and picnic-area rules in Article II is punishable under Sec. 13-28 as provided in the Chapter 1 general penalty section, Sec. 1-9.