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Committee backs making short-term rentals a permitted use, drops $500 one-time conditional-use fee
Summary
The Lorain City Council Billings and Lands Committee voted to send changes to the short-term rental rules to full council that would remove a one-time conditional-use permit and fee, keep annual registration and parking rules, and add BCI background checks for owners and operators.
The Lorain City Council Billings and Lands Committee agreed to send to full council a package of changes to the city's short-term rental rules that would make short-term rentals a permitted use rather than a conditional use and eliminate a one-time $500 conditional-use application fee while keeping annual registration and parking requirements.
Planning Director Matt Kuzhenark told the committee the changes, recommended by the Planning Commission, would move the review from a one-time conditional-use permit before the Planning Commission into an administrative review handled by the Building, Housing and Planning (BHP) Department. "We would be making short term rentals a permitted use as opposed to a conditional use, thus essentially…
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