CAPITAL CITY CONSULTING REPRESENTS CLIENTS navigating complex business and professional regulation matters. Many of CCC’s consultants have experience working with, and for, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR). DBPR regulates various professions and businesses, as well as ABT sales, gaming, condos, and more.
The firm’s team also includes members who have served within the regulated industries committees of the Florida Legislature, offering clients an insider perspective on both the regulatory landscape and the broader policymaking process, a unique advantage among lobbying firms.
Capital City Consulting advises clients on legislative, regulatory, and appropriations matters across a broad range of industries regulated by DBPR, including real estate, hospitality, construction, gaming, alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, condominiums, and professional licensing. With a thorough understanding of Florida’s regulatory framework, CCC helps clients navigate complex compliance requirements, manage government engagement, and advance strategic business objectives.
- Expanding Affordable Housing Across Florida
Capital City Consulting represented developers leveraging the Live Local Act, which streamlines local government approval for multifamily projects dedicating 40% of units to residents at or below 120% of area median income. When gaps in the law threatened to slow progress, we successfully lobbied to remove local barriers stalling projects, expand land eligibility for development, and pass an essential fix to the missing middle tax exemption, which eliminates ad valorem taxes on affordable units and is one of the most valuable financial incentives available to developers in Florida.
- Bringing Stablecoins to Florida
Capital City Consulting worked to pass three landmark pieces of legislation positioning Florida as a national leader in digital asset regulation. The first establishes Florida’s inaugural GENIUS Act-compliant regulatory framework for qualified stablecoin issuers, introducing licensing requirements under the Office of Financial Regulation and placing the state on track for expedited federal approval under the Act. The second creates a pilot program authorizing the Department of Financial Services to accept and manage stablecoins for governmental fee payments and related transactions. The third provides a critical consumer protection measure, a public records exemption for personal financial information obtained by the state through stablecoin regulation. To secure passage of all three bills, our team worked hand in hand with the Office of Financial Regulation, the Department of Financial Services, and the Governor’s Office, while investing significant effort educating members on the future of digital currency and the long-term economic benefits of providing this regulatory framework in Florida.
- Opened the Market for Foreclosure Notice Publication
Representing a private vendor that publishes foreclosure auctions, Capital City Consulting successfully lobbied for the passage of a significant expansion where Clerks of Court and Comptrollers may publish legal advertisements and public notices relating to the sale of real property. Previously, Florida law required these notices to be published in a newspaper or on a county’s official website. Our firm negotiated a new framework allowing publication on the Clerk’s or Comptroller’s own website, the county’s website, a newspaper, or — critically — a private vendor’s website designated by the Clerk or Comptroller.
The legislation faced fierce opposition from Florida’s press associations, which sought to protect newspaper revenue generated by mandatory legal notice publication requirements. Passage required sustained high-level negotiations with legislative leadership and the press associations to reach a compromise. Our team navigated those competing interests to deliver a landmark win for our client, modernizing Florida’s public notice framework and creating a new pathway for private vendors to serve as designated publication platforms for real property sale notices statewide.
- Created framework for common sense HOA fine procedures
Many homeowners live in neighborhoods governed by homeowners associations. These can provide for architectural synchronization, safety, and beautification. Unfortunately, certain unscrupulous lawyers were encouraging the use of litigation by HOAs, against homeowner members, to enforce violations of governing documents. CCC helped analyze the litigation trends, and developed a structure by which violations must be properly noticed, and may be remedied and cured, before a hearing to implement a fine. The Legislature passed this structure, which ensures that all homeowners get a fair shot at fixing a problem before punitive fines, or subsequent lawsuits, are imposed. This promotes compliance with governing documents without overly punitive outcomes for minor, or unintentional, violations.