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City adopts rule to bar advertising of uses not permitted by zoning to ease short-term-rental enforcement
Summary
The commission adopted Ordinance 45-25, a single-sentence text amendment to prohibit advertising any use not permitted in a zoning district, designed to allow code staff to move more quickly when they find online ads for unpermitted short-term rentals.
The City Commission unanimously adopted Ordinance 45-25, a text amendment that prohibits advertising a use that is not permitted in the zoning district. Development Services Director Shane Corbin said the measure is intended to make it easier for code compliance staff to begin enforcement when they find online advertisements for short-term vacation rentals or other unpermitted uses.
"Right now it's pretty cumbersome for them. They get a complaint, then they have to start doing investigations, monitoring the property, going on various websites," Corbin said, explaining that the change allows staff to open a case as soon as they find an advertisement. The ordinance was adopted on a unanimous roll-call vote.
