Short-Term Rentals
Dallas’s Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee talked in a two-plus-hour workshop Tuesday about code violations, nuisances, party houses, specific use permits, and “putting teeth” into the city’s development code governing short-term rentals. The panel was slated to review the development code and define a new use called “short-term rental lodging.” Committee members agreed to direct staff…
Dallas has been wrestling with the issue of whether to change the code allowing short-term rentals in residential areas, but it’s not the only city that’s had to evaluate the matter. When Airbnb announced in June that party houses and “open-invite gatherings” of more than 16 people are permanently prohibited following a trial period due…
Zoning Board To Revisit Short-Term Rentals With Workshop Meeting In August
Members of Dallas’ Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee voted last week to further study — and potentially regulate — short-term rentals or adopt zoning that would make it illegal for them to operate in residential neighborhoods. The panel will take up the matter again at its next meeting on July 7 and ultimately deliver a recommendation…
As the conflict in Ukraine escalated last month, members of Dallas’ short-term rental community circled the wagons — and the vacant properties — and stepped up to help. Shelby Fletcher, who launched an STR management business Perfect Tenant LLC in 2018, joined the dialogue immediately. She rallied others in the Dallas Short-Term Rental Alliance, where…
