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McKinney staff proposes low-touch short-term rental registration; council weighs enforcement, fees and legal limits
Summary
City staff proposed an annual, no-fee short-term rental registration requiring 24-hour contact information to help police and code enforcement; council members raised questions about legal limits, enforcement practicality, estimates of how many units exist (estimates ranged from about 103 via VRBO to 300–450 citywide) and the option to revisit a fee after a year.
City staff presented a short-term rental (STR) registration ordinance to the McKinney City Council on Tuesday that would require property owners to file an annual registration with 24-hour contact information and would take effect upon publication. "We just dropped the ball," Michael Quint, executive director of development services, said of the delay in bringing a registration proposal back to the council; Quint said the staff recommendation is a low-touch, registration-only approach with no fee to encourage broad participation.
Quint said the city does not currently require STR registration and therefore cannot reliably count them; he estimated the number…
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