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City legal staff proposes hotel/motel licensing ordinance to target nuisance properties
Summary
The city law department presented a draft lodging-establishment licensing ordinance to give Wichita local authority to license, inspect on complaint, and sanction hotels and motels that generate crime, safety or nuisance issues; staff proposed a $200 annual fee and said the approach is intended to be corrective rather than punitive.
Jan Jarman of the city law department briefed the council on an early-stage proposal for a lodging-establishment ordinance intended to give the city more direct tools to address persistent problems at hotels and motels.
Jarman said hotels and motels currently are licensed and regulated by the Kansas Department of Agriculture, and that the city lacks a local licensing structure that could allow more timely inspections and actions when properties generate…
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