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County staff launches data-driven outreach to noncompliant short-term rentals; software identifies 501 potential violations
Summary
A county working group told council members they are using a commercial monitoring service to identify short-term rental listings; the vendor has flagged 501 confirmed listings that lack county licenses and staff plan phased outreach and enforcement letters to bring units into compliance.
County staff briefed the Summit County Council on a two-year working-group effort to identify and bring unlicensed short-term nightly rentals into compliance. The county has contracted Azure (software/service) to cross-check online listings against county parcel and business-license records. Scott Buchanan, a code-enforcement officer assigned to nightly-rental work, said the software has already "identified 501 properties" that appear to be operating without a county nightly-rental license and that staff will start a phased outreach and enforcement process.
Staff described the planned…
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