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Somerset council reviews draft real-estate disclosure ordinance requiring buyer notice on town rules and short-term rentals
Summary
Councilors reviewed a draft ordinance that would require a disclosure for prospective buyers covering town building rules, a ban on short-term rentals, stormwater obligations, and urban‑forest rules; staff were asked to add a plain‑language notice on recorded stormwater agreements and define “short‑term.”
The Somerset work session on an ordinance to require a real‑property disclosure for prospective buyers focused on what the town should require realtors and private sellers to convey about local rules.
The proposal, introduced by Speaker 1, would provide new buyers with a one‑page disclosure listing that the town has a council, building ordinances, stormwater requirements, a ban on short‑term rentals and urban‑forest rules. “This goes over the fact that we have a council, and…it says that we don't allow short term rentals,” Speaker 1 said.
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