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Public opposition grows as Cape Coral discusses $600 annual rental registration and new tourist development fund
Summary
Hundreds of residents and rental operators criticized proposed ordinance changes that would create a tourist development fund and raise a residential rental registration fee from $35 to $600. Council moved both ordinances to the Committee of the Whole for further discussion.
Cape Coral’s proposed changes to rental registration and a newly proposed tourist development fund drew extended public comment and sharply divided council discussion on Tuesday.
Councilmember Donnell asked that two ordinances — one amending residential rental registration and another creating a tourist development fund funded by those revenues — be removed from the council introduction and taken to the Committee of the Whole for further review. After repeated exchanges on procedure, council members agreed to send the items to the Committee of the Whole for more discussion; the council’s procedural votes earlier in the evening left the ordinances live for that next step.
The proposed registration ordinance would replace the…
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