Committee pauses short-term rental ordinance changes pending Georgia Supreme Court ruling
Planning staff outlined a two-type short-term rental ordinance and the committee voted unanimously to take no further action until the Georgia Supreme Court rules on a related legal challenge, expected early next year.
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Planning Director Bruce Lonnee told the Government Operations Committee on April 20 that Clarke County's short-term rental ordinance has been adopted and amended twice and is the subject of an outstanding legal challenge. Lonnee described a simplified two-type structure for regulating short-term rentals: "home occupation" rentals that require on-site occupancy and are permitted in residential zones, and "commercial" rentals that do not require on-site presence and are allowed by right in designated commercial, office, institutional and certain agricultural-residential areas with stricter limits in AR neighborhoods.
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