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Multimedia - Webhosting, Dedicated Servers, Hosting Plans for Small Businessįind unparrelled webhosting plans and web servers with full bandwidth to the Providing local Maine businesses with web hosting and other web site services since 1995. Inns | hotels | resorts | rentals | attractions | dining | real estate Maine Daily Newspapers | Maine Weekly Newspapers The Park Township Board of Trustees held an emergency meeting in November, voting 6-0 to speak out against the bill, which remains stuck in place as officials negotiate an updated version.Maine Newspapers: Waterville Morning Sentinel Daily News The bill says local governments may cap the total number of short-term rentals in their communities, but that the cap can be no less than 30 percent of all residential units - a ratio many Park Township residents would balk at. Subscribe: Learn more about our latest subscription offers!

The proposed law establishes short-term rentals as a residential use - not a commercial one, as some Michigan courts have characterized them - allowed by right in all residential neighborhoods.

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The legislation prevents local governments from banning short-term rentals through local zoning code and ties their hands with regard to other kinds of restrictions on rentals, such as caps on the total number of units that can be rented short-term. The lengthy process in Park Township will prove moot if House Bill 4722, passed 55-48 by the Michigan House in November 2021, makes it through the Senate and is signed into law by the governor's office. Business licenses, with more rental days, would be subject to stricter inspections and oversight. Toward the end of the meeting, commissioners discussed a two-tier licensing system, with 'personal' licenses and 'business' licenses, depending on the number of days a property is rented out per year. The general consensus was also to have a licensing, inspection and regulatory system, requiring STR owners to register with the township, participate in inspections and observe certain noise and parking restrictions. Some rentals are going to be shut down.'Ĭommissioners generally agreed that buffers will be set, requiring a certain distance between STRs, though a range wasn't determined. If they need to be shut down, that's irrelevant. 'It is not our job to make somebody a dollar,' she said. Garlinghouse said grandfathering current STRs, or creating overlay districts in order to retain existing operations, isn't the commission's job. That's why we had to spend $2,000 on a fence.' We personally have had someone at 2:30 in the morning peeing in our backyard. 'And this causes whoever is unlucky enough to live next door to them to be the police force. '(Then) in the same cottage, an 18-year-old throwing up on a Sunday morning after partying too hard and a bachelorette party. 'None of my other commissioners have had prostitutes climb through a neighbor's window, at least I don't think you have,' said commissioner Diana Garlinghouse, who took over chairmanship about halfway through deliberations. It's not clear whether existing STRs will be grandfathered into the final ordinance, which will have to go before township board for approval. While conversations may continue over how far the second overlay should stretch, commissioners voted 4-1 to eliminate STRs in all areas outside the two districts. The second includes further inland neighborhoods in four general regions that already have a hefty number of STRs, including Waukazoo Woods. The first is a long, narrow band that stretches along the lakefront. Short-term rentals aren't mentioned.īy the end of the five-hour-long meeting, a majority of commissioners voted in support of two potential overlay districts drawn up by township staff. The ordinance in question, written in the 1970s, lists specifically what uses are allowed in residential districts and says any unlisted uses are prohibited. More: Lakeshore townships oppose short-term rental bill More: Park Township planning commission to study short-term rentals More: Board faces enforcement dilemma as complaints roll in 'The action to negate the existing ordinance and have the moratorium tacitly gave approval to that process.' 'The actions of the township board and this commission have really implicitly and explicitly driven short-term rentals,' one resident said. 'It's derogatory and it gets violent'Ĭommissioners listened to more than an hour of comments from residents and short-term rental owners and managers frustrated by the lack of township guidance. During an at-times-tense Park Township Planning Commission meeting last week, commissioners arrived at a potential solution for the short-term rental controversy that's 'pitted neighbor against neighbor' for months.

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