The Ocean City Council will consider additional regulations on short-term rentals located in two residential zoning districts.
With a moratorium on the issuance of short-term rental licenses in place through the end of this year, city officials took time this week to review the effectiveness of new regulations placed on vacation rentals located in R-1 residential and MH mobile home communities and to discuss additional measures that might be needed in those communities.
As part of that review, council members directed staff to come back with several other options, which ranged from establishing a new length-of-stay minimum to limiting the number of short-term rental licenses.
Prior to Tuesday’s work session, council members participated in a survey, in which they ranked potential options for further regulating short-term rentals in R-1 residential and MH mobile home districts. Councilwoman Carol Proctor did not provide input for much of the survey, sharing with the public this week that existing regulations, combined with a lack of data and the results of a recent referendum, were enough to put the matter to bed.
“I don’t think we should be here today,” she said, “because I believe the people have spoken.”
The OC elite lost the referendum – so now they are ignoring it and passing new regulations that the citizens will have to petition to referendum yet again. Infuriating!
You are so correct 1:31 100% correct