Heron Bay HOA Delays Landlord Rental Vote in Parkland

Heron Bay, a master association spanning more than 3,100 homes across a dozen-plus subdivisions in Coral Springs and Parkland, delayed a vote on new landlord and rental rules after a rollback of the most restrictive proposals and a chaotic board meeting this week. The board voted to push the vote to the first week of September and move it to a larger venue.

Why it matters

This is a governance fight over investor ownership inside one of Broward’s largest master-planned communities, and it changes what an investor-buyer or listing agent can underwrite there in the near term. The board’s original draft would have limited owners to one lease per unit per year with no hardship exceptions for a tenant’s eviction, death, or early termination, required landlords to complete an orientation with every new lease or renewal, and barred tenants with two or more community violations from renting at all. After The Real Deal’s initial reporting, the board rolled back most of those provisions before the meeting, but the underlying leasing framework for the community, covering Miami’s largest submarket for master-planned single-family rentals, is still unresolved.

The numbers

Heron Bay covers more than 3,100 homes. Owner Jack Dhanji told The Real Deal roughly 250 owners had registered opposition to the original proposals. South Florida’s metro asking rent averaged about $2,693 a month as of May 2026, up 1.0% year over year, the rent backdrop landlords in the community are leasing into.

What’s next

The rescheduled vote is now expected in the first week of September, in person and in a larger space, after the board said Zoom sessions make it hard to verify remote participants. That reasoning drew pushback from A.J. Steigman, a unit owner and landlord at Heron Bay, who argued the in-person-only format cuts out owners who cannot attend physically.

“[It] goes against the board’s fiduciary obligation to be transparent to the entire community,” Steigman said.

Investors and agents active in Heron Bay should treat the September meeting, not this week’s, as the one that sets enforceable lease terms.