Community members will have a chance to share their thoughts on a proposed ordinance that addresses short-term rentals in residential and mobile home districts.
On Nov. 19, at 6 p.m., the Ocean City Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on a proposed ordinance that establishes a minimum length of stay and a maximum occupancy limit for short-term rentals. As both regulations have a zoning component to them, both are being presented to the city’s planning commission for review.
“Our next planning commission meeting will be 11/19,” Planning and Community Development Director George Bendler told the commission last week. “That will be our public hearing for the rental ordinance and allowing public comments for that.”
In September, the Mayor and Council agreed to forward two proposed short-term rental regulations to the Ocean City Planning Commission for further review. When the matter was brought to the commission later that month, the commissioners directed staff to prepare an ordinance that could be presented for a public hearing, now scheduled for Nov. 19.