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Fayetteville committee endorses permanent short‑term rental rules, lowers occupancy and adds density and penalty limits
Summary
The Fayetteville Ordinance Review Committee unanimously recommended forwarding a revised short‑term rental ordinance to City Council that removes sunset language, tightens occupancy rules to two people per bedroom, establishes a 500‑foot/4% density test and 100‑foot buffers, and adds escalating penalties and transition rules for existing reservations.
The Fayetteville Ordinance Review Committee on Nov. 19 voted to recommend that City Council adopt a rewritten short‑term rental ordinance that would make current rules permanent, reduce allowable occupancies and add new density and enforcement tools.
The committee endorsed a package of changes staff said were designed to reduce neighborhood impacts while preserving an avenue for short‑term rental business. Jonathan, the Development Services Director, described the centerpiece of the proposal as a two‑part density test for single‑family homes: a 500‑foot radius calculation that would permit up to 4% of units in that radius to be Type‑2 short‑term rentals, and a 100‑foot minimum separation that would prevent new Type‑2 licenses within 100 feet of an existing Type‑2 rental. "The way this metric works is it's measured 500 feet from the outside boundaries of a property, and only 4 percent of the units that are captured within that radius are allowed to be type 2 short term rentals," he said.
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