CONCORD — Carroll County residents came out in force at a House hearing last week on SB 249, a bill that would bar towns from banning short-term rentals.
The bill, called “Prohibiting planning and zoning ordinances that prohibit short-term rentals,” was before the House Municipal and County Government committee. The hearing ran 10 minutes shy of three hours.
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You can’t regulate supply and demand . Are they also going to ask Walmart to operate for only 90 days? This isn’t communist China or the Soviet Union. SMH
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