Short Term Rentals
As summer winds down and school starts up, many are abandoning their seasonal retreats and second shelters to return to the real world. In the past, an entire inventory of lakefront cottages and countryside estates would sit dormant, awaiting the following season. Fortunately, things have changed in the era of the iPhone. With the advent…
After one of the most contentious debates the Dallas City Council has endured in recent history, the short-term rental issue came to a head last week. Four years of debate ended after more than four hours of testimony from residents. Finally, a resolution was reached, banning STRs within the residential neighborhoods of Dallas. For many,…
It wasn’t long after the vote was taken to ban short-term rentals in Dallas’ single-family neighborhoods that STR operators took to social media to throw down the gauntlet. “Let the lawsuits begin,” one Airbnb host wrote. A chief argument from District 1 Councilman Chad West, who proposed an alternative to the“Keep It Simple Solution,” was…
Four years of spirited debate came down to one vote just before midnight Wednesday, as the Dallas City Council banned short-term rentals in single-family neighborhoods. The measure, proposed by District 14 Councilman Paul Ridley and known as the “Keep It Simple Solution,” was recommended last summer by the council-appointed City Plan Commission. The new zoning…
As a three-hour briefing on short-term rentals concluded last week, Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax promised that staff would issue a professional recommendation — a measure several council members said wasn’t necessary ahead of a June 14 vote. We’ve got the memo, published below in its entirety. But first, here’s what could go down at…
