Florida zoning, and the statutory frame around it.
Florida zoning is set by 67 counties and over 400 municipalities, each with its own land development code. The statewide statutory frame is what they all sit inside, and that frame is what this page covers. The parcel-level zoning layer is IN BUILD and nothing on this site claims otherwise.
Zoning
Florida zoning maps and land development codes by county.
Zoning layer in build
Zoning in Florida is a local power. The state publishes no consolidated zoning map and no standard district schema, so what governs a parcel is the zoning map and land development code of one specific jurisdiction: the county for unincorporated land, or the municipality inside city limits. Florida has 67 counties and more than 400 municipalities, each with its own district names, its own permitted use table, and its own definition of what a phrase like general commercial actually allows.
The consistency requirement is the part sponsors miss
Every Florida local government plans under Chapter 163, Florida Statutes, and a zoning decision must be consistent with the adopted comprehensive plan. That makes the future land use designation the senior document, not the zoning map. A parcel can carry a commercial zoning district and still fail the use you want if its future land use category does not support it, and the remedy in that case is a plan amendment rather than a rezoning. Those are different processes, on different clocks, before different bodies.
Which track a plan amendment takes turns on acreage. A small-scale amendment, available for sites of 50 acres or fewer, is decided at a single local hearing. Anything above that threshold goes to state coordinated review with the Department of Commerce and the reviewing agencies, which adds months. A 49 acre site and a 51 acre site can therefore be a season apart on approval, which is worth establishing before a parcel goes under contract rather than after.
Why no good statewide Florida zoning map exists
More than 460 jurisdictions publish zoning in different formats, at different vintages, with district codes that collide between jurisdictions and mean different things in each. A C-2 district in one county is not a C-2 district in the next. Some publish machine-readable layers, some publish PDFs, and some publish neither. National tools that advertise zoning coverage tend to be thin precisely at this point, because normalising 460 schemas into one comparable classification is the actual work and it does not automate cleanly.
That normalisation is what the zoning layer now in build does: base district and overlay resolved at the parcel, mapped to a comparable classification so a site in Lee County can be read against one in Duval, with the source jurisdiction and the effective date carried on every record so it stays checkable against the code that governs it. Until it lands, this platform does not display zoning for Florida and does not infer it from land use, assessment class or anything else. The statewide framework above is retrieved from the 2025 Florida Statutes and is accurate today.
Held today
- Growth management frameworkCh. 163, F.S.
- Small-scale amendment line50 acres
- Impact fee notice period90 days
- Areas of Critical State Concern5, mapped
In build
- Base zoning districtIn build
- Overlay districtsIn build
- Normalised classificationIn build
- Source and effective dateIn build
Stays local
- Permitted use tablesJurisdiction
- Setbacks, FAR, heightJurisdiction
- Fee schedulesJurisdiction
- Review timelinesJurisdiction
A normalised district tells you where to look. It never replaces reading the governing code.
Common questions
Questions this page should answer.
Can I look up the zoning of a Florida parcel here?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Anything on this site that presents zoning does so as the statewide statutory framework, explicitly marked, with confirm locally attached.
What does the Live Local Act change?
It preempts local density and height limits for qualifying affordable developments in commercial, industrial and mixed use zones. It is a statutory override of local codes, which is why it belongs on a state page rather than a county one.
Why is zoning harder than the other layers?
Because there is no single publisher. Demographics come from one Census. Zoning comes from more than 470 jurisdictions with no shared schema, no shared vocabulary and no obligation to publish machine readable data.
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