June 16, 2016
“It sounds like other than the sober homes and the rehab homes, we now have people who are looking at buying a house and turning a residential area into more of a commercial area, a hotel area — a hotel home,” Council Member Joan House said at the Monday night Malibu City Council meeting. House presented a request to city staff that they come forward with an ordinance to place limits on these types of rentals, found on websites like Airbnb and VRBO. Included in House’s suggestions for the ordinance were an outright ban on short-term vacation rentals or an ordinance similar to Santa Monica’s Home-Sharing Ordinance, which allows rentals under 30 days as long as a regular resident of the house is present on site during the stay….
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