New Orleans engaged in study of short term rental regulation

I looked over the report and here are some of things I noted:

(1) This study is massive -- I have never seen such a long report on STRs going into such detail. 118 pages!!?

(2) they want to set up four different types of short term rental permits!!!

(3) for type 1 permit, hosted rentals, they would require that you provide a parking space for the guest.

(4) to do no hosted rentals for over 30 days a year. You would have to get a conditional use permit and the city would limit # of operators to 2-4 per square block.

(5)short term rentals are extremely profitable in New Orleans--- as evidenced by the large difference between long term rents and short term ones. The difference is greater than that which exists in cities in the San Francisco Bay Area for instance.,

(6)they are highlighting the safety issue more than I have seen in other cities

(7)those who rent out only 1-5 rooms would pay no hotel
tax because that tax only applies to places renting more than 5 rooms.,

(8)operator would be asked to keep a log of all dates and fees of short term guests, which the city could ask to inspect at any time.

(9)it would be (under the proposed rules) illegal to advertise short term rentals without a license , illegal to not include license # in ad, illegal to advertise outside the scope of the short term rental permit. (Oh for heaven's sake just save some time and put all hosts in jail already!!! Geez!)

All together I find the proposed regulations rather invasive--- it is a case IMHO of over regulation ....