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Evanston committee sends short‑term rental rewrite to housing committee, backs 60‑day compliance push
Summary
On March 10, 2025 the Evanston Planning and Development Committee referred a longer-term rewrite of the city’s vacation/short‑term rental rules to the Housing and Community Development Committee (HCDC) and accepted staff’s plan to identify unlicensed listings and give them 60 days to apply for licenses, then pursue escalating fines.
At its March 10, 2025 meeting, the Evanston Planning and Development Committee voted to send a longer-term review of the city’s vacation‑rental rules to the Housing and Community Development Committee and agreed that staff should start enforcing the current ordinance by notifying unlicensed listings and giving them 60 days to apply.
Andrew San Roman, building and development services manager, told the committee “Currently, there are 226 short term rentals listed, in the city of Evanston. We currently have 14,309 long term rentals just for comparison between the 2.” He laid out ambiguities staff wants clarified — including how to define an owner’s “primary residence,” whether the ordinance should use the term “short‑term rental” instead of “vacation rental,”…
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