Rome council retables proposed zoning change on short-term rentals after amendment

The Rome Common Council held a public hearing notice and later retabled a proposed amendment to Chapter 80 of the Rome Code of Ordinances concerning short-term rentals.

The council authorized the city clerk to advertise a public hearing on a zoning code amendment relative to short-term rentals, to be held in July 2025, and described that notice at the start of the meeting. At the regular session later in the evening the council considered ordinance number 9807, “amending Rome code of ordinances, chapter 80, zoning code.” Council members moved an amendment correcting the ninth whereas clause to read 07/09/2025 for the public hearing. After that amendment was adopted, a motion to retable ordinance 9807 as amended carried and the item was put back on the table for future consideration.

The public-notice text read in the meeting stated that the clerk was authorized to advertise a public hearing “with regard to a zoning code amendment relative to short term rentals” to be held in July 2025 in the Common Council Chambers, City Hall. No public speaker addressed the short-term rentals amendment during the hearing portion recorded in the transcript. The later meeting record shows the council made a clerical amendment to the ordinance’s whereas language and then retabled the ordinance by motion; the retable motion was moved by Councilor Sprace and seconded by Councilor Smith.

No final vote on adoption or rejection of the zoning amendment was recorded in the transcript. The council’s action at the session was procedural: correcting the ordinance language and tabling it for further consideration.

What happens next: Because the ordinance was retabled, the council will not take a final vote on the zoning change at this meeting. Further hearings, revisions, or a future vote were not specified in the transcript.