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Residents Urge Caution on Short-Term Rental Rules; Questions Raised About Chamber's Tourism Grant Matching Funds
Summary
Several residents used the Oct. 7 public-comment period to urge council to slow implementation of a proposed short-term rental ordinance until the Land Management Ordinance rewrite is further along, and to ask for greater transparency about tourism-marketing grants and how matching funds are sourced.
Multiple residents addressed the council during the non-agenda public-comment period on Oct. 7, urging caution on a pending short-term rental ordinance and raising concerns about the Hilton Head Chamber's use of matching funds in a state tourism-marketing grant application.
Susan Wheatley, identifying herself as a Hilton Head Island resident, realtor and small-business owner, criticized a proposed amendment to the short-term rental ordinance and asked the council to "take a deep breath and let's do it right," urging that the Land…
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