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Committee hears broad debate on short‑term rental licensing; ordinance held for more work
Summary
A comprehensive short‑term rental bill (Ordinance 588‑2024) that would license and regulate short‑term rentals in Cleveland drew hours of testimony and was held for further work. The proposed law would require licenses, impose density limits and raise civil penalties; committee members asked for stronger enforcement details before advancing.
City council’s Department of Public Safety & Service committee spent a lengthy May 13 session examining Ordinance 588‑2024, the city administration’s proposed licensing regime for short‑term rentals, before the committee paused the item for further work.
City attorney Rachel Scalish opened committee discussion with a summary: “Ordinance 588‑2024 will regulate short term rentals as businesses through a licensing process. All short term rentals must be licensed.” The draft would create a new chapter in Cleveland’s codified ordinances, require local contact information for operators, and make licensed short‑term rentals subject to the city’s transient occupancy (bed) tax.
Under the draft presented to the committee, short‑term rentals could operate in one‑family districts subject to a density limitation of “at least 1 or no more than 15% of the total residential units on the block or in a…
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