Short-Term Rentals
All eyes were on the Dallas City Plan Commission this week as the panel voted to define short-term rentals as a lodging use, thus banning the properties from single-family residential neighborhoods. Plan commissioners, who made the decision in a 10-4 vote following a nine-hour public hearing, said they didn’t take the matter lightly. Some said…
Members of the Dallas City Plan Commission decided in a split vote Thursday to define short-term rentals as a lodging use and limit them to areas where such uses are allowed, thereby prohibiting short-term rentals from residential areas. Over the course of the nine-hour meeting, there was talk of enforcing regulations against “bad actors,” allowing…
The Plano City Council last week delayed action on short-term rentals but heard from residents and the city’s neighborhood services director about plans to model an ordinance after the one adopted in Arlington. Short-term rentals dominated the news in Dallas during the summer months, but the debate cooled as the city entered its budget process. …
As the debate over short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods rages on in Dallas, another room-sharing platform has entered the mix but doesn’t appear to have much traction locally. Hundreds of Dallas-Fort Worth properties are featured on short-term rental sites like Airbnb and Vrbo, and we’ve talked to several readers who enjoy using Swimply — which…
People across the country are trying to go for one last dip in the record-breaking heat this summer — but some are saying “not so fast” to a national pool-sharing program. We reported last week on the gaining popularity of Swimply, a social platform like Airbnb where homeowners rent swimming pools to guests for the…
