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Post by High Priestess on Feb 16, 2016 16:11:42 GMT
See this article: chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/1328262/emanuels-floor-leader-wants-make-airbnb-limits-neighborhoods-dominated-single-family-homes Airbnb and other home-sharing services would be off-limits in Chicago neighborhoods dominated by single-family homes, under a crackdown proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s City Council floor leader. “People who have purchased homes in single-family zoned areas have done so without the expectation that someone would open a motel on the same block every weekend,” Ald. Pat O’Connor (40th) wrote in a text message to the Chicago Sun-Times. O’Connor did not identify Chicago neighborhoods now plagued by that problem. |
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Post by leny on Feb 17, 2016 10:43:00 GMT
Sorry to see this limitations happening in the States. I was suprised few years ago that some municipalities don't allow you to grow your own vegetables around house. I'm however sure that in few years time you will get this sorted. It's a very small border from short term renting, long term renting, having guests over and hopefully you can use different category while it's not all legal.
Deborah was interested in Croatian model. It's a bit tricky here also. But you can have short term renting in all planning zones (or with new law proposal even in nature under Robinson tourism category). We have a creasy silly list of rules we have to comply and we have to pay around 100$ of tax per each bed. There is limitation to this model in number of beds and income you can have. However I still had problems with neighbours saying that it's a bussines and I should comply with a special set of rules. The teory I use with them is that people don't do any activities in app than regular people living there. They have got used, but still I pay more for cleaning and water (our building has than together) even trought neighbour teaches languages in app and has probably 2 times more people comming in the building than my guests, and evertime something is broken I'm first to blame. People that have not registered always say that people that visit are their family :-p
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Post by High Priestess on Feb 17, 2016 12:53:31 GMT
Interesting Leny that you tell your neighbors, who say it's a business, that nothing happens but regular people sleeping there. In fact, there have been many cases in court now in the USA where the court has stated that short term rentals are not a COMMERCIAL use of property, they are a RESDIENTIAL use of property, because people who are guests are doing the same thing that residents do when they stay -- they are residing there. They use the place as accomodations, they eat and sleep there. It is a business, in my country, if you earn money from something -- so yes that is true, but it's not a COMMERCIAL enterprise, and that is significant for zoning laws that don't allow commerical enterprises in residential areas.
See this post for more on this subject:
globalhosting.freeforums.net/thread/1456/court-cases-short-term-rentals
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