Santa Fe College: Which Gainesville code areas can affect residential rental property?
DIRECT ANSWER
For parcels actually inside Gainesville city limits, City Code Enforcement identifies property-maintenance rules in Chapter 13, dangerous-building and nuisance rules in Chapter 16, and land-use/zoning rules in Chapter 30. Gainesville repealed its former Chapter 14.5 Article I residential rental-unit permit program through Ordinance 2023-754 in September 2023. It subsequently adopted Ordinance 2023-905 on December 14, 2023, deleting the former Section 30-4.10 residential-tenancy occupancy limitation and amending definitions in Section 30-2.1. Some University of Florida and Gainesville pages still describe the former rental permit or three-unrelated-person limit as current; those claims are stale. Building, fire, safety, lawful-use and other applicable rules may still apply and must be checked for the exact parcel and competent jurisdiction; these repeals do not establish unlimited lawful occupancy.
Sources & verification
- mcclibraryfunctions.azurewebsites.us Official local/state government source
- mcclibraryfunctions.azurewebsites.us Official local/state government source
- gainesvillefl.gov Official local/state government source
- gainesvillefl.gov Official local/state government source
- flsenate.gov Official local/state government source
- alachuacounty.us Official local/state government source
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