A Santa Rosa traffic stop leads to the discovery of a stolen firearm. On Saturday night, officers responded to reports of a large house party on Bridgewood
DELAND After a rowdy day of public comment, the Volusia County Council voted Tuesday to delay changing an ordinance prohibiting short-term rentals until the end of the just-started Florida legislative session.
Enforcement will remain suspended and a committee will be established to talk over potential changes to the current ordinance, which bars short-term rentals in areas of unincorporated Volusia County zoned for residential use.
A bill is pending in the legislature that could allow local governments to make ordinances on short-term rentals less restrictive. A previous Florida law prohibited all changes to regulations of the length or frequency of stay in short-term rentals.
Volusia County will pause enforcement of short-term rental bans in parts of the county after weeks of lobbying from homeowners in Bethune Beach and Ormond-by-the-Sea.
Volusia County councilmembers unanimously voted Tuesday for a temporary suspension on the processing of new complaints related to short-term rental operation in unincorporated parts of the county zoned for residential use.
The item was not on Tuesday s agenda, but after a number of homeowners urgently addressed the council at the end of the meeting, County Chair Jeff Brower called for a vote.
He said he didn’t want to wait until the end of summer to see the rules changed.