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Broward County decides binding land use at the Board of County Commissioners, which sits as the County Commission and adopts plan amendments and zoning ordinances by majority vote after the Broward County Planning Council holds its public hearing and makes a recommendation.

Across the meetings we have captured so far, the picture is a high-approval, conditions-driven market. Of the land-use items the Commission actually decided, about 97% were approved (28 approvals against a single denial), so a clean rejection is the exception here, not the pattern.

The one land-use denial on record is instructive: on March 3, 2026 the Commission voted unanimously (recorded 8-0) to reject ordinance PCNRM 24-3, which would have removed 3.5 acres of protected mangroves owned by Port 1850 LLC from the Environmentally Sensitive Lands map at Site 97 in Dania Beach, after a commissioner walked the site and pointed out that only 3% of the land west of the development line out to the Everglades is still undeveloped.

That is an environmentally sensitive carve-out, not a routine rezoning, and it tells you where this board draws a hard line. For most applicants, the risk is not the up or down vote. It is the conditions and the choreography.

Roughly 10 of 28 land-use approvals we captured came with attached conditions, and the items that slip a cycle do so for deference reasons rather than rejection: the Commission deferred the 1301 South Ocean Drive Hollywood land-use interpretation to the first meeting after July 1 for an environmental review, after the city's Live Local Act vote, and reshaped the Broward Next land use plan text amendments (PCT 26-4 through 26-8) on the floor with three Geller amendments before transmitting them 9-0.

The signal to sell on here is the cost of yes, the conditions, the city-deference posture, and the environmental sensitivity that turns a routine map change into the one denial on the books.

We are still gathering data in this market, so the rate sharpens as we add hearings, but the shape is already clear: get to yes by engineering around the conditions and the environmental review, not by worrying about a denial.