If your home in Navarre, Gulf Breeze, Milton, and Pace is not livable after Isaias, you may be able to stay on your own property while it is repaired. We deliver a furnished travel trailer to your driveway or yard, set it up, have it connected, and service it for the whole stay. When a carrier approves the trailer, we can bill the carrier directly.
Local rules. Santa Rosa County, Gulf Breeze and Milton all restrict living in an RV on a residential lot, and Florida law limits how they can prohibit one on a damaged home’s lot after the Governor’s declaration. Check with the county or city on permits and hookups. Each rule is linked to its official source below.
Housing a crew? The county allows one security RV on a commercial or industrial construction project, Milton’s City Manager may allow a travel trailer as living quarters after hurricane damage, and Gulf Breeze allows job-site RVs only as offices. Crew rules and housing
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Go back into an evacuated area, and plan a delivery there, only when local officials say it is safe, and follow road closures. For Santa Rosa County, official updates come from the Santa Rosa County Emergency Management and Florida Division of Emergency Management.
Checked against the sources above as of . For current conditions, go to the source.
Whether a trailer can stay on your lot is decided by your city, or by the county outside city limits, and by your HOA if you have one. Here is what each one’s own code or official page says, in short. Our parent brand covers the residential RV rules for Santa Rosa County in detail.
Florida law says that after the Governor declares a state of emergency for a natural emergency, a county (section 125.023) or a city (section 166.0335) may not prohibit one temporary shelter, which includes a recreational vehicle or trailer, on the residential property of a home that was damaged and made uninhabitable. That protection runs for up to 36 months after the declaration or until a certificate of occupancy is issued for the home, whichever comes first, and only while three things are true: the resident is making a good-faith effort to rebuild or renovate, such as applying for a building permit; the shelter is connected to water and electric utilities and is not a threat to health and safety; and the resident lives in it. Local permits for the hookups still apply.
Florida Statutes, section 125.023 (counties) | Florida Statutes, section 166.0335 (cities)
That depends on your policy and your adjuster. When a carrier approves the trailer, we can bill the carrier directly, so you are not fronting the cost. Our parent brand explains the claim side on 1st Choice Living’s Florida page. Once the placement is arranged, the trailer, delivery, and service are ours.
Every size arrives furnished, with real beds, a full kitchen, a bathroom with a shower, and heat and air conditioning. More on a trailer on your property while you rebuild.
We work with any temporary housing company. If one is handling your housing, ask them to place you with Temporary RV Living, or with our parent brand, 1st Choice Living, for a trailer on your own lot in Santa Rosa County. They send us the placement, and we deliver, set up, and service the trailer.
For restoration, roofing, tree, utility, and response crews working in Navarre, Gulf Breeze, Milton, and Pace. Bring the housing to the work. We deliver travel trailers to the site, or as close as the ground allows, and set up and connect them the same way we do in a driveway. A two-person crew fits one trailer. A full crew takes a cluster, and the Workforce Bunkhouse sleeps six or more per trailer, with a kitchen and a bathroom the crew shares. One point of contact runs the placement, it lands on one invoice billed directly to the company, and we handle the LOA, COI, and compliance paperwork your office or your client requires.
Milton’s emergency provision and the county’s security RV are the closest rules to crew housing we found here. Ask the city or Development Services before delivery. More on crew housing.
Water, sewer or septic, and electrical connections are completed by licensed, insured contractors from our preferred vendor network, so you do not hire an electrician or a plumber. We look at how far the trailer will sit from the water, sewer, and power it will use, and confirm the site with you on the call before the trailer rolls.
Electric service in Santa Rosa County comes from the utilities below. Each posts its own outage and storm updates.
Call the office for the city where the trailer will sit, or the county office outside city limits. Ask whether a travel trailer may be used there, for how long, and which permits the hookups need.
Answer a few questions in the request form and a rep calls you back with a written quote, or call (214) 493-1515.
Our sister brand LossMap covers documenting a property from the air before tarps go on and debris comes off, on LossMap’s Santa Rosa County page.
The county code restricts living in an RV in residential zoning, but section 125.023 of the Florida Statutes says that after the Governor's declaration the county may not prohibit one temporary shelter on the lot of a home made uninhabitable, for up to 36 months or until a certificate of occupancy, while you rebuild in good faith, keep it connected to water and electric, and live in it. Check with Santa Rosa County Development Services on permits.
Gulf Breeze's code lets the City Council allow RVs to be lived in after a declared natural disaster by passing a resolution with an expiration date, and RV sewer hookups are allowed only under that resolution. No Isaias resolution was on the city's site as of October 9, 2026, so check with Community Services.
Only in narrow cases. In unincorporated Santa Rosa County, including Navarre, a conditional use allows one RV for security on a commercial or industrial construction project, for up to 12 months. In Milton, the City Manager may allow a travel trailer as temporary living quarters for up to six months after hurricane damage, and the code does not say who may live in it. Gulf Breeze allows job-site RVs only as offices or security trailers. Ask before delivery.
Outside city limits, Santa Rosa County Development Services in Milton, 850-981-7000. In Milton, Planning and Development at 850-983-5400. In Gulf Breeze, Community Services at 850-934-5109.
We deliver, set up, and service trailers nationwide, and have since 2004. Put the Santa Rosa County address in the request form and we confirm the site with you on the call. Plan a delivery into an evacuated area only once local officials, including the Santa Rosa County Emergency Management office, say it is safe to return.
Official pages and official code hosts, checked October 9, 2026. Rules can change after a storm; the office that wrote the rule has the final word.
For your family or a crew, answer a few questions and a rep calls you back with a written quote.
