At last Wednesday's Oakland Park's commission meeting, I became aware of an issue that affects so many families in our city. During a discussion about possibly limiting short term rentals, I discovered that single family homes were limited to no more than three unrelated people living together.
Specifically, the city's code says that single family homes cannot include "more than three (3) individuals unrelated by blood, marriage, or adoption."
I have been with my partner, Waymon Hudson, for six years. We received a civil union in Vermont almost five years ago and are registered domestic partners here in Broward County. We also recently had a foster son live with us, who is a part of our family that still comes home to visit us regularly from college. Yet, if we had two foster children in our home at the same time, we would have been violating the law!
That is wrong.