The fight over rental restrictions in Heron Bay isn’t over.

After the new board at one of Broward County’s largest homeowners associations backed off the most contentious landlord rules following an outcry earlier this month, opponents are preparing to take another shot at some of the remaining provisions while supporters are pressuring the board to impose stronger restrictions.

The Heron Bay board unanimously passed a revised set of regulations Sept. 3, eliminating provisions requiring landlord orientations for every new lease or renewal and preventing tenants with rule violations from renewing or leasing elsewhere in the community.

The Real Deal was blocked from attending that meeting, but attendees said about 200 of the 10,000-plus Heron Bay residents showed up at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel & Convention Center where it was held. The meeting was not available to owners via Zoom, as previous meetings have been.

The board’s attorney, Tripp Scott’s Matthew Zifrony, said a majority of attendees at the meeting supported the rules, with many now calling for the board to amend them to be stricter.

“Not only are we happy with [the board] restating the existing rules so that everybody sees them in a second place, we want you to go a step further and put in screening requirements and put in limitations on when you can lease,” Zifrony said. “We need even more. That was the resounding 99 percent of the people that were at that meeting.”

Some landlords are continuing to push back against the rules, claiming the board doesn’t have the authority to pass them. Four rules will be the subject of a mediation scheduled for Nov. 17, according to landlord A.J. Steigman.

Those rules:

• Limit owners to one lease per year and require tenants to go through another tenant registration process if they want to renew their lease past the year

• Prevent short-term rentals of any kind, including Airbnb, interval ownership and time sharing

• Hold owners jointly liable with their tenants for damage caused to the association’s common areas

• Require prospective tenants to attend a tenant registration before moving in.

Steigman, with his partners, owns 17 properties in Heron Bay, which includes more than a dozen subdivisions with more than 3,100 homes across Coral Springs and Parkland.

Since Sept. 14, he said he’s received five violations — one from the master board and four from the Tuscany subdivision board — in what he claims is retaliation against him and his tenants. Tuscany did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Zifrony denied that the master board’s violation was retaliatory, saying the board immediately offered to work with the tenant on the violation. He said the board has no control over violations issued by the subdivision boards.

In police body camera footage obtained by Steigman and viewed by TRD, the president of the Tuscany HOA board said Steigman is “being fought against” by the Heron Bay masterboard and Tuscany subdivision board for “renting to troublemakers.”

“We’re all trying to build a police notification every time until we get enough that we can throw him out,” the board member said in the video.

The footage was from Aug. 20, when police responded to a call claiming a Black teenager who jumped the pool fence was related to the children of one of Steigman’s tenants, Latesha Cobb. Cobb said that claim was false and said the incident is part of what she described as racially motivated harassment by residents and the HOA, TRD previously reported.

Steigman was issued a violation the same day, without evidence, that the teenager was a guest of Cobb. The violation was dropped nearly two weeks later.

Tuscany did not immediately respond to requests for comment.