City Manager T.C. Broadnax said Wednesday that the City Council will vote on proposed new regulations for short-term rental properties on June 14.
He said the vote was being set for June 14 to “get this item resolved by the current sitting council.” The mayor and 12 incumbent council members were elected last month. Voters also elected one new council member to fill an open seat in May and will fill the final spot in a runoff on Saturday.
She said she believed it would “be the most efficient and effective way to move forward with regulating, especially the bad operators.”The council vote next week would be the latest chapter in at least three years of the city considering rules to regulate short-term rentals. The city has no rules in place to penalize bad operators. Property owners are supposed to register with the city, but there are no consequences for not doing so.
“As elected officials, you represent us, our neighborhoods, our interests, you’re tasked with keeping our neighborhoods safe,” Hebert told council members Wednesday. “The neighborhoods are not safe when short-term rentals are allowed to operate in them.” “There is absolutely no need to zone us out of existence when no enforcement mechanism has been in place to correct any problem STRs,” she said.would reclassify short-term rentals in the city code as similar to commercial hotels, which would prevent them from operating in residential zones. The change would also include required off-street parking and limits on the amount of rentals in a single unit.
Dallas officials believe the proposed regulations would ban 95% of the more than 1,700 short-term rental operators registered with the city. But the total number of properties listed online for rent could be as high as 6,000, according to the city. “Nothing about what’s being proposed would erase the problems that we’re trying to solve for here,” he said.
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