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STR administrator urges clearer short-term rental definitions; working group convenes
Summary
The town's STR administrator asked the Planning Commission to consider adding a third category for commercially rented homes and to clarify STR definitions; an STR Working Group has begun meeting alongside the Selectboard.
Andy Dahlstrom, the town STR Administrator, asked the Planning Commission to consider changes to the Short-Term Rental (STR) section of the zoning bylaws and to the bylaw definitions to improve clarity and enforcement.
Dahlstrom noted a potential third category for units that are effectively commercial — for example, a house rented for more than half the days of the year or never occupied by the owner — that may fall outside the current ordinance. Heather Stephenson asked how such properties could be regulated and whether the zoning ordinance or bylaw definitions were the correct mechanism; Andy replied that the ordinance would guide day-to-day enforcement with the bylaws backing it up.
The minutes record that an STR Working Group has convened and will meet on the same days as Selectboard meetings, starting at 5 P.M. The working group is to produce recommendations for clarity and for potential bylaw edits ahead of the planned public hearing process.
