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Council adopts commercial filming rules, shifts some review authority to village manager
Summary
Council approved Ordinance 1425 on second reading, establishing a permitting framework for commercial filming and videotaping, correcting scrivener's errors and keeping appeal authority to council while housing certain administrative waivers with the village manager.
The Village of Tequesta adopted Ordinance 1425 on second reading, creating a new division in the zoning code to regulate commercial filmmaking, videotaping and photography. The ordinance adds definitions, a permitting process, exceptions and penalties and was presented with several scrivener's edits.
Staff explained the edits made at council direction: sections that mistakenly referenced council authority were revised to assign day‑to‑day permit processing to the village manager's office. Council considered whether waiver and appeal authority should be retained by the council or delegated to staff; the final action left appeals to the council while permitting and some waiver processing will be administrative.
Council members raised three operational questions on insurance limits, waiver authority for specific code provisions, and the appeals process; staff said code changes are required if the council wants to change insurance limits and recommended retaining appeals to council while housing waiver requests administratively in the manager's office.
After clarifying those points and correcting typographical errors, council approved the ordinance on second reading by voice vote.
What happens next: The ordinance will be codified and the village manager's office will administer the new permitting process for commercial filming. Appeals of certain administrative decisions will come back to council under the ordinance's appeal procedures.
