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Cocoa Beach staff to draft 30-day grace period for expanded short-term rental registration
Summary
City staff will prepare a resolution offering a short, voluntary compliance window after the commission signaled support for a 30-day grace period as it considers expanding short-term rental registration and fees. Officials said a mass mailing and increased code enforcement will accompany the outreach.
Cocoa Beach officials directed staff to draft a resolution that would give short-term rental owners a limited voluntary compliance period as the city moves to expand vacation-rental registration and fees.
The action follows a lengthy discussion at a City Commission meeting about how to bring unregistered short-term rentals into compliance and how to avoid overwhelming staff. Development services director Dave Dickey said the city will send a mass mailing to known short-term rental operators identified through the Rentalscape monitoring service and described a planned “grace period” to encourage voluntary compliance.
The issue matters because commissioners and staff said many rental units in Cocoa Beach operate without the city’s vacation-rental registration. Dickey told the commission the Rentalscape list includes “approximately, between 8 and 900” listings active today and that a larger cumulative list of past and present listings approaches 1,500–1,600. He said the city will use that list to do a mail merge and notify owners directly.
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