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Council asks staff to draft ordinance to ban new non-owner-occupied short‑term rentals
Summary
The council unanimously approved a resolution directing the city administration and solicitor to draft ordinance language and policies to ban new non-owner-occupied short‑term rentals (guest houses), with a 30‑day reservation window for properties already under contract or in permitting.
The Newport City Council voted to ask city staff and the city solicitor to prepare ordinance language and administrative policies that would ban new non-owner-occupied short‑term rentals (referred to in the ordinance context as guest houses). The resolution, introduced by Councilor Mark Romley, frames short‑term rentals as a contributing factor to the city’s housing shortage and directs administration to return with proposed ordinance text at the council’s next meeting.
Key amendments clarified the resolution’s scope. Councilor Angela Lima and others successfully narrowed the target to non‑owner‑occupied guest houses…
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