Category Archives: local government trend

Local TREND. Fees on Short Term Rental to Fund Domestic Violence Shelters. Where. What. How Much.

Where: Chicago

What do short term rental taxes/fees currently look like: 

  • Chicago has a 4% surcharge on short term rental platforms
  • The surcharge & fee are on top of the 17.4% hotel/motel tax
  • Chicago has a $10,000 license fee for platforms
  • Chicago also imposes a $60 per-unit fee

How much is the new proposed fee? An additional 2% fee earmarked for shelter beds for victims of domestic abuse

Illinois Policy | The mayor’s proposed 2 percent fee would punish short-term rental customers and…

Private Property Rights in the Middle of a State Budget Fight.

Short Term Rentals, and the tax on short term rentals, became a bargaining chip in New Jersey Legislators.

Estimated annual revenue from the short term rental revenue in New Jersey: $250 million 

How New Jersey Would tax Short Term rentals:

  •  expand sales tax
  • apply the state’s  6.625% sales tax to r entals of fewer than 90 days would be taxed

NJ.com | Tax on shore rentals? I don’t like it, Phil Murphy says of Dem leaders’ key budget offer.

LOCAL TREND. +1 Oil Country City Says No to Eminent Domain for Pipelines. 3 Key Points

The city calling for no eminent domain for a pipeline: Enid Oklahoma

What the City Manager says about eminent domain for the water pipeline?  “We don’t even mention that word.”

Will eminent domain be mentioned to any landowner? NO

Enid News and Eagle | City officials: Eminent domain will not be used in pipeline project 

Legal Trend: Texas Local Government Can Be Sued for Taking without Compensation

Court: Judge Caroline E. Baker, state district court judge in Harris County

What happened to get us into a court room?   a Houston photographer’s claimed that UofH used his photogrpah of Houston in its materials without permission

What did Uof H argue to stay out of court? soveriegn immunity, represented by the Texas Attorney General’s Office

the court say?  that the university cannot claim soveriegn immunity for the taking

San Antonio Express News | UH can be sued for using photo, judge…

Local Lonestar TREND. Short Term Rental Ordinance Requires Inspection + Notification to Neighbors

City: Coppell

The short term renal ordinance passed by Coppelll City: 

  • must be owner’s primary residence
  • must be registered with the city
  • requires an emergency contact number be provided
  • property be inspected
  • notification to neighbors within 100 feet with a 24-hour hotline number for complaints

Coppell Gazette | Coppell City Council passes short-term rental ordinance 

Local Trend. Anatomy of a New Billboard Ordinance. First Revision since the 1970s.

City: Carlsbad, NM

The 2018 billboard ordinance requires:

  • Any company or person installing, repairing, altering, relocating or dismantling a sign must obtain a New Mexico contractor’s license
  • billboards must be 1,500 feet from other off-premise or freestanding signs
  • billboards must be 200 feet from the nearest residential district, public park, playground or cemetery
  • building permit required

Carlsbad Current Argus | City council approves new sign ordinance

Local Trend. Ordinance Limits Short Term Rental Properties.

Where: Boston, Massachusetts

Which properties can be offered for short term rental? Owner Occuppied Properties

Which properties cannot be offered for short term rental? 

  • properties occuppied by tenants
  • properties owned by investors

Boston Globe | City Council passes tough rules that limit Airbnb rentals. 

Local Preemption Bills 2018. TREND SPOTTING.