Tell Lawmakers: Stop the Neighborhood Takeover
Florida lawmakers are advancing bills that could turn a family housing tool into short-term rental chaos in your neighborhood.
Accessory Dwelling Units, often called granny flats or mother-in-law suites, provide extra housing space for families.
HB 1389 centralizes control to state bureaucrats over how ADUs are used, even though these are units built in backyards and on single-family lots. It blocks local communities from deciding how ADUs operate as vacation rentals, despite the fact that the effects are felt (literally) next door.
With that authority stripped away from citizens, an ADU could be used as another transient party house, even in neighborhoods already struggling with investor-owned short term rentals.
Tell lawmakers:
- Strip the vacation rental takeover language from HB 1389.
- Keep SB 1548 clean.