This report originated through the White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing’s efforts to work with federal, state, local, and tribal stakeholders to identify and address the laws, regulations, land use requirements, and practices that increase the cost of the development of affordable housing nationwide. The HUD-led council engaged the ULI Southeast Florida/Caribbean to convene a roundtable discussion of stakeholder experts to review common tenets found in zoning land use regulations across Broward’s municipalities. The recommendations and feedback gathered for this report will be submitted to the White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing.

In the effort to facilitate affordable housing development, municipal and county land use reform should include: (i) increased entitlements for developers; (ii) greater resources devoted to reviewing affordable housing projects; (iii) and overall standardization of zoning and land use rules across Broward’s 31 municipalities. Broward’s municipalities each have their own unique regulatory processes for planning, land use, and zoning, and this fragmentation creates inefficiencies and additional costs for developers who have properties in multiple cities. By ensuring that zoning procedures and permitting processes are as consistent as practicable, both costs and uncertainty can be reduced.

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