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Addison staff outlines tiered public‑safety component for hotel and motel registration

Addison City Council · November 4, 2025
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Summary

Town staff proposed adding a public‑safety tier to the lodging registration program that would classify hotels by calls‑for‑service per room and trigger education and enforcement steps — including potential certificate‑of‑occupancy actions for repeat high‑call properties. Council directed staff to return with ordinance details.

Town staff presented a proposal to add a public‑safety component to Addison’s lodging and rental registration program that uses a calls‑for‑service (CFS) per‑room ratio to sort hotels into two tiers and target resources.

The proposal, presented by Chris Friess, uses 12 months of patrol and service‑call data. Staff reported the 22 properties in the town’s dataset generated 2,015 calls for service over the period; four properties accounted for about 57% of those calls. Under the draft approach,…

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