Required documents are:
City of Destin Local Business Tax Receipt and Application. Please call 850-837-4242 or visit the Building Division for more information.
Department of Business and Professional Regulation Dwelling license. This process can be started by visiting www.myfloridalicense.com or call 850-487-1395, find the application under “Apply for /Update License> Hotels and Restaurants>Vacation Rental Dwelling”.
State of Florida Resale Tax Certificate. This process can be started visiting http://floridarevenue.com/taxes/taxesfees/Pages/sales_tax.aspx under the taxes tab, begin with “Register to Collect & Report Taxes” or call 850-488-6800.
Additional forms:
Certificate of Affidavit: Contact Planning/Building Division for more information.
Change of Use Form: Contact Planning/Building Division for more information.
Maximum occupancy limits apply from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. The maximum allowable occupancy in a STR is 2 adults per bedroom plus an additional 4 persons per property. (For example, a three bedroom house is allowed 10 people for overnight occupancy). Overall maximum overnight occupancy is capped at 24 persons per house, regardless of the number of bedrooms.
Name and telephone number of Management Company Name and telephone number of Emergency Contact (if different from Management Company) Occupancy limit Number of available parking spaces.
The sign must be prominently placed on the property of the single-family dwelling unit so that the required content of the sign shall be legible as viewed from the public right-of-way; however signage shall not be placed in the public right of way. Signs are not allowed to be posted in windows, on trees, fences other objects that has a message appearing on it that does not apply to the present use of the premises or structure upon which the sign is located and is not otherwise permitted by the City Code.
The purpose of the 120-day grace period for marketing is to abate punitive action by the Code Compliance Department for those advertisements that may already be scheduled to run as of the Ordinance’s effective date (Jan. 22, 2019) and in the immediate 4 months thereafter (May 22, 2019). It is not the intent of the ordinance to encourage owners and agents to run new ads in violation of the ordinance during that time, but rather, is protection for owners and agents who may not be able to stop ads that have already been scheduled.
However, this shouldn’t affect the pre-existing agreements which are only those contracts entered into prior to the ordinance taking effect. Now that the ordinance has taken effect, the property owners/agents are no longer permitted to violate the Ordinance, except that if an agreement was entered into before January 22, 2019, and the booking will take place before January 22, 2020, those bookings are still authorized under the Ordinance. Contracts are only “pre-existing” and exempt from the Ordinance if they were entered into prior to Jan. 22, 2019.