Charlotte E. Rodstrom was elected to the Fort Lauderdale City Commission in March 2006 to represent the District 2 area. Voters re-elected her to office in 2009 and again in January 2012. She also currently serves as Vice Mayor.
Charlotte brings a unique perspective to the commission as a neighborhood activist. She has long been a leader in civic efforts to improve and enhance her hometown.
The commissioner welcomes your input and comments. She encourages you to contact her at 954-828-5923 (office), 954-292-9378 (cell) or by e-mail at crodstrom@fortlauderdale.gov.
District II Meetings
Pre-Agenda Meeting
First Monday of each month
5:30 pm | City Hall
100 N. Andrews Avenue
8th Floor Conference Room
District II Crime Meeting
Third Thursday of each month
7:00 pm | 13th Street Police Substation
533 NE 13th Street
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Biographical Information
As a commissioner, Charlotte has championed the need to streamline city government, improve public safety, ensure responsible growth and expand economic opportunities. She is a steadfast believer in listening to neighborhoods and has spearheaded numerous community improvements. Charlotte is also committed to running City Hall like a business and ensuring the tax burden to residents and businesses remains as low as possible.
A few of Charlotte’s accomplishments during her six years as a commissioner include:
- Creating a program to bring residents and law enforcement together to address neighborhood concerns. The Police Department has expanded that program citywide.
- Initiating a comprehensive master plan of Fort Lauderdale’s barrier island to protect natural resources, preserve the quality of life for residents and ensure future development adheres to higher standards.
- Enhancing the area’s park system and green space through opening new parks like those in Flagler Village, South Middle River and Dolphin Isles and improving others like Holiday Park, Middle River Terrace Park and Fort Lauderdale Beach Park.
- Initiating changes to the city’s land-use and zoning code to protect neighborhoods from overdevelopment.
- Launching plans to revitalize the Fort Lauderdale Aquatics Complex and the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
- Starting a pilot program to reduce flooding along Las Olas isles with the use of new valves on the stormwater drainage system.
- Creating a new community redevelopment area to improve the South Middle River-Middle River neighborhoods north of Sunrise Boulevard.
- Launching the construction of a new greenway and bicycle trail along Flagler Drive that will run from North Andrews Avenue to Sunrise Boulevard and will link to a dedicated bike lane to downtown.
- Improving street-lighting along State Road A1A to better protect sea turtle hatchlings.
- Working with the Broward Trust to establish the Annie Beck Educational and Community Center in Middle River Terrace.
- Adding more lifeguards to patrol the north beach area.
- Improving streetscapes such as the gateway to the beach at Las Olas Boulevard and State Road A1A and the medians along Northeast 15th Avenue through Poinsettia Heights. She was pivotal in work underway to enhance the Sistrunk Boulevard corridor and improve the lighting and landscaping along the streets in Progresso Village.
Charlotte looks forward to continuing to work to ensure the city’s financial stability, maintain essential services and require accountability of city programs and staff. Her goals include completing the redevelopment of the aquatics center, crafting plans to allow neighborhoods to pay to bury utility lines if they want to do so and creating more greenways along the barrier island and throughout the district.
Charlotte was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has lived in Fort Lauderdale for 56 years. She moved to the city with her parents when she was 2. Charlotte graduated from Stranahan High School in 1971 and attended Centenary College in New Jersey.
She serves as vice chair of the Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization and is a member of the Broward Water Resources Task Force. Her colleagues on the City Commission chose her to serve as vice mayor in 2008 and have appointed her to represent the city on the board of directors of the International Swimming Hall of Fame. She also has been the Broward League of Cities’ appointee to the Broward Cultural Council.
Before joining the commission, Charlotte served as a homeowners association president and a PTA president and vice president. She served on the city’s Planning and Zoning Advisory Board and the Stranahan House board of directors.
Charlotte lives in the Nurmi Isles neighborhood with her husband, John, who currently is the mayor of Broward County. They have three children: Travis, Wade and John III. |
