MADISON — Selectmen announced Tuesday they are prohibiting short-term rentals in the Eidelweiss Residential District and those who persist will be fined hundreds of dollars.
The vote came on the heels of complaints by Nick Borelli and Kathy Koziel of Eidelweiss who said STR renters disrupt their neighborhood with traffic and noise. They have argued that the town ordinance, particularly the section about Eidelweiss already prohibit STRs.
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The people running these STRs (specifically ones that purchased for the sole intent of making money commercially) could care less about the impact that they have on the local housing situation. I applaud Madison and other towns standing up and trying to put a stop to the commercialization of residentially zoned neighborhoods. Locals need places to live too.
I would think that this issue largely hinges on how the zones are defined within the zoning ordinances. Most ordinances restrict the use of a building within a certain zone. If you own a home in a residentially zoned neighborhood and you choose to rent it out as a home, that is acceptable because the use of the building as a home is permitted. Whether or not it is being rented doesn't matter. If you rented the same home out to someone and the renter used it for a real estate office that would not be permitted because the use is commercial. So how
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