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Planning commission recommends short‑term rental ordinance to council, seeks to remove fingerprint requirement and online public database
Summary
After a two‑hour public hearing on Aug. 26, the Peachtree City Planning Commission voted to forward a draft short‑term rental permit ordinance to city council with two recommended changes: replace a proposed public online registry with a 200‑foot neighbor notification and revisit the nationwide fingerprint background‑check provision (GBI language).
The Peachtree City Planning Commission on Aug. 26 held a public hearing on a proposed short‑term rental (STR) permit ordinance and voted to recommend it to city council with two specific changes: remove the publicly searchable online database of permitted addresses in favor of a 200‑foot notice to neighbors, and revisit the draft’s requirement for fingerprinting to enable nationwide background checks.
City staff summarized the draft ordinance’s core elements: a citywide cap set at 1% of residential units (staff said that equates to 35 permits under the assessor’s current counts), no grandfathering (operators currently using STRs must obtain permits), allowed rental types (individual bedrooms or whole‑home rentals; detached structures such as guest houses, RVs, tents and yurts are excluded), and operator requirements including a local contact aged 21 or older who can respond 24/7 and be on site within one hour. The ordinance, as drafted in the packet, also requires fire and building…
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