Bowing to Hammock, Thrasher and Hutson Will File Bills to Restore Vacation-Rental Regulations | FlaglerLive - Your News Service for Flagler County News Palm Coast News Bunnell Flagler Beach Beverly Beach and Marineland

Backlash being felt on vacation rentals and the bill that took away local communities ability to regulate them. Vice-Mayor Maxwell, as the current chair of the Palm Beach County League of Cities has mentioned this issue as one that organization is working on - along with the proliferation of sober houses. Here is a bit from the article. Click title for link.

Unlike previous such meetings, when legislators focus on listening rather than on making promises, Thrasher and Hutson this time made news: they pledged to the sea of red-shirted partisans that they will each file a bill in their respective chamber to repeal the 2011 law and return the matter of vacation rental regulations to local governments.
“I’m a big property rights person as much as anybody,” Thrasher said, addressing the many homeowners the 2011 law was intended to help by enabling them to rent their homes rather than lose the properties for being unable to meet mortgage payments. “But individual property rights have to be balanced and I’m of the opinion that we’re not going to be able to work it out here.” When he heard the concerns of residents and vacation renters last year, Thrasher proposed that the two sides work things out among themselves before taking it up with lawmakers. They didn’t. “I intend to file a piece of legislation that will repeal this law.”