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After meeting for nearly six hours on Thursday, the Pinehurst Planning and Zoning Board was unable to reach a conclusion on the thorny topic of regulating short-term home rentals. ....
Let’s be clear about this. Short-Term Rentals (STRs) are businesses operating without regulation, usually within residential zones. That wouldn’t happen with other types of businesses, because they are regulated. And if they were operating in zones where they weren’t allowed by virtue of an ordinance, they would be illegal. That’s why we have a Land Use Ordinance (LOU), to give some sense of order if and when certain activities are allowed within the community. That’s simply how things work in the world. The fact that historically people have rented rooms in their home or their entire home for a summer is not relevant here. And in the dustup over Rockport’s proposed ordinance, those types of rentals are being exempted, anyway. So let’s not confuse the issue. ....