Dallas residents are asking town to introduce stricter rules on short-term leases (STRs), reviews Bethany Erickson in D Magazine, prompting town council to ask employees for suggestions. “City staff outlined two options. One would update zoning to divide short-term rentals into owner-occupied single-family homes. The other would be the opposite of that. Owner-occupied STRs (in other words, granny flats, ADUs, and garage apartments) would be allowed in all zoning districts. But those not occupied by the owner would be banned in areas zoned single-family residential.”
The proposed guidelines would additionally require off-street parking and ban using properties as occasion venues. A 3rd proposal would ban short-term leases altogether in single-family residential neighborhoods.
“Compounding the problem is the fact that nobody really knows how many hosts there are in the city. AirDNA, which analyzes listings and breaks them down by city and state, says there are 4,884 active listings within the city of Dallas.” Meanwhile, “The city says it has around 1,200 registered short-term rental property owners, which prompted most of the council horseshoe to question how effective any ordinance will be if the city can’t even enforce its baseline registration requirement, which is literally the only current regulation.”
The supply article outlines rules imposed by different cities, corresponding to South Padre Island, the place guidelines are aimed toward controlling massive events, and Denver, the place short-term leases in residential neighborhoods are restricted to owner-occupied items. Erickson suggests a “good-faith effort at regulation” that enforces guidelines with out utterly shutting down the STR trade.