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Plymouth planners debate owner-occupancy, safety checks as they draft short-term rental rules
Summary
The Planning Board spent the bulk of its meeting weighing life-safety rules, owner-occupancy requirements and enforcement options for proposed short-term rental regulations, and directed staff to prepare draft language that would create two uses: owner-occupied short-term rentals and non-owner-occupied rentals subject to site-plan review.
The Plymouth Planning Board on Thursday dug into a months-long discussion about short-term rentals, focusing on life-safety standards and how to prevent investor-driven conversions that take housing off the long-term market.
Tom, a town staff member who presented model ordinances from nearby communities, told the board that short-term rentals currently are not permitted in Plymouth but have been occurring with selective enforcement. He recommended a permitting approach that would allow the board to review some uses case-by-case — for example, permitting by special exception or conditional use — and to require…
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