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Residents and hosts clash at council meeting over short-term rentals; council to refine proposed ordinance after extensive public comment
Summary
Public comment at the New Franklin City Council meeting focused on short-term rentals, with residents describing noise, parking and safety concerns and hosts urging regulation rather than a ban.
Public comment at the New Franklin City Council meeting centered on short-term rentals (STRs), where residents described repeated noise, parking and safety problems near lakefront and dense neighborhoods and hosts urged the council to adopt measured regulation rather than an outright ban. The council is on the second reading of an ordinance regulating STR operations (ordinance 25-0004) and did not take a final vote at this meeting.
Multiple speakers described incidents they said were linked to STRs. Greg Bowman, listing an address in the township, said a recent large party at an Airbnb involved gunfire and several hospitalized guests; he told council he hoped action would come "pretty soon." Martin McDowell said a late-night incident produced tire…
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