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Bellbrook resident urges council to address short-term rentals after repeated yard parking and late-night noise

3533860 · May 27, 2025
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A longtime Bellbrook resident told the City Council May 27 that vehicles tied to a nearby short-term rental have driven across his yard, parked overnight and disturbed neighbors. Council members discussed registration, minimum-stay rules and enforcement options and asked staff to review possible responses.

Regan Ross, a Bellbrook resident of 14 West South Street, told the Bellbrook City Council on May 27 that tenants at a nearby multiunit property have repeatedly parked in his yard, left trash and made noise late at night. Ross said he and his wife have lived in the neighborhood for decades and that the apparent short-term rentals began after the property changed hands about two years ago.

Ross described finding vehicles with temporary tags parked on his property, waking at about 2:30 a.m. to people talking outside and calling police on one occasion. “I went out and said, you know move your truck… I called the police. The officer came, had him move it,” Ross said. He said the landlord told him the tenants had been “thoroughly…

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