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Neighbors warn short-term rentals harming safety and parking in Irving neighborhood
Summary
A resident told the City Council a nearby single-family home had been converted to a six-room short-term rental 'pad split,' raising safety, parking and neighborhood-stability concerns; the mayor directed the resident to city code enforcement for follow-up.
At the May 29 Irving City Council meeting, resident Brian Burns told the council that a recently finished house near his home had been converted into a short-term rental configured as a six-room "pad split," and that the change had worsened parking and safety in his neighborhood.
"Short term rentals are a business, period," Burns said, adding that the neighbor who prepared the house "owns a company that does nothing but short term rentals" and that the arrangement had "completely destroyed my sense of security,…
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