{"id":391937,"date":"2026-09-06T05:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391937\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T05:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:44:17","slug":"proposed-amendment-to-fort-lauderdale-vacation-rental-ordinance-discussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391937\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Amendment to Fort Lauderdale Vacation Rental Ordinance Discussed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Fort Lauderdale, FL) &#8211; The city of Fort Lauderdale is cracking down on its 1500 registered vacation rental properties. <\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/fortlauderdale.legistar.com\/View.ashx?GUID=22EE3839-EA3D-4033-A2DF-C61C84E9BD17&amp;ID=15764829&amp;M=F&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">proposed amendment<\/a> to the Vacation Rental Ordinance comes as many residents complain about noise, parking and safety issues like a fire hazard or an unsecured pool. <\/p>\n<p>The ordinance amendment also stiffens penalties for owners who anyone operating a vacation rental on an expired certificate will receive a $1,000-per-day fine. <\/p>\n<p> Airbnb listings are subject to the same Vacation Rental certification.  A final reading and vote on the change is expected after today&#8217;s discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the other changes include:<\/p>\n<p>Owners can&#8217;t get new or renewed certificates if there are unpaid fines, liens or penalties.<br \/>\nProperty owners must allow inspections for safety-related complaints.<br \/>\nViolations will reset after 12 consecutive months with no violations.<br \/>\nOperators can&#8217;t evade violations or suspensions by transferring a property to an entity they control.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/fortlauderdale.legistar.com\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=8170795&amp;GUID=7D5E516F-4AD4-4BF3-B1F4-CF952C23172B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ordinance amendment<\/a> passed the first reading and is scheduled to be voted on pending Friday&#8217;s Vacation Rental Stakeholder Meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Fort Lauderdale, FL) &#8211; The city of Fort Lauderdale is cracking down on its 1500 registered vacation rental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[17907,249,251,250,29041,114653,156116,66098],"class_list":["post-391937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-amendment","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-ordinance","tag-property-owners","tag-vacation-rental-ordinance","tag-vacation-rentals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}