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Parma Heights council enacts six-month moratorium on short-term rental permits and refers marijuana zoning changes to Planning Commission
Summary
At a July 29 special meeting, the Parma Heights City Council adopted a temporary moratorium of up to six months on permits for short-term rentals, referred multiple proposed amendments affecting medical marijuana operations and dispensaries to the Planning Commission, and approved several administrative ordinances and resolutions.
Parma Heights City Council on July 29, 2024, adopted a temporary moratorium, not to exceed six months, on the issuance of permits that would allow the operation of short-term rentals within the city.
Council President Tom Rounds called the special meeting to order at 6:35 p.m. Clerk Barbara Allen read the title of Resolution No. 2024-52, which places the moratorium, and Councilwoman Maruschak moved to suspend the rules and then moved for passage. Clerk Allen recorded a roll-call vote in which Councilmembers Palmisano, DeSouza, Kolezynski, Maruschak, Haase, Durichko and Rounds voted Aye and the resolution passed.
Why it matters: the moratorium pauses issuance of short-term rental permits while the city considers regulations or further action; the resolution is effective immediately as an emergency measure specified in the ordinance text read into the record.
In the same meeting, council referred three proposed ordinances that would amend local code sections tied to medical marijuana to the Planning Commission for review. Clerk Allen…
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