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Committee moves bill allowing municipalities to restrict short-term rentals within exclusively residential zones
Summary
A5434 would allow local zoning ordinances to designate exclusively residential districts and limit short-term transient accommodations to no more than 25% of a municipality's land area; the committee released the bill with some members abstaining over concerns about state encroachment on local zoning authority.
The Assembly Housing Committee voted to release A5434, a bill that would permit municipal zoning ordinances to designate areas exclusively for residential use and to restrict short-term rentals within those districts unless the municipality explicitly authorizes transient accommodations.
Under the bill’s text read into the record, a municipality could allow short-term rentals in designated…
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