Vacation rental rules expand to downtown neighborhood zone district

Vacation rental rules expand to downtown neighborhood zone district

When Sarasota city commissioners approved expanding the city's ordinance governing vacation rentals from the barrier islands to citywide in February 2024, they were under the impression the ordinance included all single-family residential neighborhoods.Because the ordinance is zone-based rather than applicable to specific neighborhoods, though, the expansion excluded the mixed-use Downtown Neighborhood Zone (DTN), which includes the Gillespie Pa…