Zoning Overlays & Bonuses in Florida (2026)

In the Redevelopment Beachside - Specialty Retail (RDB-2) and Gateway Residential/Mixed-Use (RDB-3) districts, Daytona…

Within the Eastside Activity Center overlay near Gainesville, ULDC Section 405.42(f) grants a density bonus of one…

In Boca Raton's LIRP light industrial and research park district, an office building over 50,000 square feet can earn a…

Unincorporated Brevard County developers can get a 25 percent density bonus when at least 30 percent of a project's…

Coral Gables grants a 25% residential density bonus to multi-family buildings designed as Coral Gables Mediterranean…

Doral lets residential developments add up to 30 percent more dwelling units above what their land use category…

Flagler County's R-3b Multifamily Residential district allows a base density of 9 units per acre, plus an affordable…

Fort Myers grants a 30% bonus above base density for downtown/midtown parcels over half an acre, or 40% for smaller…

Gainesville lets developers earn extra density and height by exceeding baseline standards. LDC Sec. 30-4.9 caps every…

In Hialeah's NBD Neighborhood Business District overlay, developers earn density above the 32-unit-per-acre base, up to…

A parcel in unincorporated Highlands County can build beyond its comprehensive-plan starting density by becoming a…

Hillsborough County lets affordable housing projects request density and floor-area-ratio bonuses under LDC Sec…

Homestead lets developers in medium-density residential zones like R-2, R-TH, R-3, R-CH, and R-TND add up to 10 extra…

Jupiter's town council may award a large-scale Planned Unit Development up to two extra dwelling units per acre above…

Kissimmee lets planned unit developments earn a density bonus in five-percent increments for meeting design…

Lake County's rural conservation subdivision rules let developers add up to a 25% increase over the density their…

Unincorporated Lee County lets developers exceed a parcel's standard density range through the Bonus Density Program…

Melbourne allows a 30 percent density bonus for affordable housing on R-1B, R-2, R-3 and I-1 zoned property carrying a…

Miami 21 lets affordable and attainable mixed-income housing developments build up to double the base zoning density…

In unincorporated Miami-Dade, developments that set aside workforce housing units earn a density bonus of up to 25%…

Miramar's SR-7 Corridor Overlay District lets developers earn extra floor area and building height above the district's…

North Port awards density bonuses on top of a parcel's base zoning allowance for qualifying development types like…

Orange County's Town Center allows developers to exceed the Comprehensive Plan's dwelling-unit cap by drawing from a…

Orlando allows density and intensity bonuses above the base zoning maximum in Office, Mixed Residential-Office, Mixed…

Palm Bay's zoning code lets developers earn density, intensity, or height bonuses for features like mixed-use design or…

Palm Beach County lets developers earn up to a 100 percent density bonus above the Future Land Use Atlas cap by…

In the Downtown Pompano Beach (DP) Overlay District, a property can add up to 20 units per acre above the base cap in…

City of Sarasota lets developers in its MU-1, MU-2, and MU-3 urban mixed-use zones build up to three times the base…

In Sarasota County's Village Planned Development (VPD) district, part of the Sarasota 2050 plan, developers can build…

Unincorporated St. Johns County runs four density bonus programs under LDC Part 5.07-5.10: Workforce/Affordable…

St. Petersburg lets developers build extra dwelling units, or gain an exemption from floor-area-ratio limits, in…

Sumter County lets a landowner in the agricultural future land use category trade a PUD rezoning and a permanent…

Inside Tallahassee's Multi-Modal Transportation District, covering the T3, T4, T5 zones and the Downtown Overlay, a…

Tampa lets developers seeking CD-2, PD, PD-A, YC-9, or SH-PD zoning in the CBD Periphery earn bonus density or floor…

Certified affordable housing projects can raise density up to 20 dwelling units per acre in Urban High Intensity land…

West Palm Beach's Affordable and Workforce Housing Overlay lets qualifying multifamily, commercial and industrial-zoned…

A density increase above what unincorporated Broward's comprehensive plan otherwise allows isn't available through a…

Okaloosa County rewards water-efficient landscape design with real zoning incentives: a development or landscape plan…

Pinellas County lets affordable housing developments earn a density bonus and development-standard flexibility during…

A mandatory downtown design overlay caps Miracle Mile buildings at 4 stories/50 feet and forces 90% ground-floor…

To build above the standard floor area ratio or height cap in Downtown Daytona Beach's Central Business District…

Downtown development projects in Jacksonville's Downtown Overlay Zone must follow the Downtown Design Guidelines…

Property owners in the Melbourne Downtown and Olde Eau Gallie Community Redevelopment Areas need a certificate of…

Miami-Dade County's Downtown Kendall Urban Center District imposes a form-based design code with build-to lines…

Nearly every new building, addition or major renovation in Miramar, apart from single-family and duplex homes, must…

Development in Orlando's AC-3A downtown district must clear Appearance Review Board (ARB) review under City Code §…

New construction, major renovations and even fences or surface parking lots in Tampa's Central Business District need…

Buildings inside West Palm Beach's Downtown Master Plan (DMP) area, which spans 13 districts, must meet the site and…

Buildings in Cape Coral's SC (South Cape downtown) and MXB mixed-use districts must orient an entrance to the street…

Doral regulates its downtown through the Downtown Mixed Use (DMU) zoning district, capping density at 25 units per…

Fort Myers's Downtown Smart Code sets binding exterior-material, window-glazing and roof-pitch rules for every building…

Gulfport's Sec. 22-6.13 building design standards apply to every residential structure in the conservation overlay…

Redevelopment inside Hialeah's Neighborhood Business District (NBD) overlay, which covers the Palm Avenue and East 4th…

Hillsborough County's Wimauma Downtown Overlay District requires buildings along 4th Street and State Road 674 to…

Hollywood's Regional Activity Center and Downtown Redevelopment District carries mandatory facade design standards…

Downtown Homestead's design rules live inside the Rapid Transit Development Overlay District's zoning code, not a…

Buildings in Jupiter's Center Street/Maplewood Drive District and Civic District must follow the architectural design…

Downtown Kissimmee is regulated by a form-based code, not conventional zoning. Chapter 14-5 sets building placement…

In unincorporated Lee County's Lehigh Acres Community Plan Area, buildings in the Lee Plan's Downtown designation may…

Nonresidential buildings inside one of Orange County's designated Community Village Centers must be built as a single…

Buildings inside the Downtown Palm Harbor Form-Based District must follow county-adopted design standards, building…

Port Orange's Land Development Code sets a dedicated design standard for its downtown Riverwalk district: the Planned…

City of Sarasota's five Downtown Zone Districts run on a mandatory SmartCode transect model under Zoning Code Article…

Unincorporated St. Johns County enforces a dedicated downtown design code for Vilano Beach: the Vilano Beach Town…

New construction and additions in St. Petersburg's Downtown Center (DC) zoning districts must follow mandatory…

Every parcel inside Tallahassee's Downtown Overlay must follow the Downtown Regulating Plan set out in Land Development…

Titusville's Downtown Mixed-Use (DMU) Smart Code sets sixteen guiding principles in Sec. 28-31 for how City staff…

New nonresidential buildings in Volusia County's Enterprise Community Overlay Zone must pick one of five historic…