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Temple Terrace Council votes to ask Hillsborough County to extend its tenant bill-of-rights to the city
Summary
After public comment and debate, the council directed staff to send a letter asking Hillsborough County to include Temple Terrace under the county's tenant bill of rights; the council asked the county to allow a 90-day education/enforcement lead-in before enforcement.
The Temple Terrace City Council voted to ask Hillsborough County to apply its tenant bill-of-rights ordinance to the city and directed staff to send a formal letter requesting inclusion, with an explicit request for a 90-day lead-in before county enforcement would begin.
City Manager Carlos Bellia summarized the county ordinance and told the council it contains two principal elements: a required notice-of-rights that landlords must give prospective and current tenants and a non-discrimination provision requiring landlords to consider lawful sources of income, such as Section 8 vouchers. "The ordinance that the county has...basically has two elements to…
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