Charlie Rankin of Yanasa TV opens this story by saying it sounds fake at first, like one of those “that can’t be real” zoning fights people argue about online, except he insists it’s very real and it’s happening to a working farm in Lanesborough, Massachusetts called Second Drop Farm.
Rankin’s point is simple and sharp: the town taxes short-term rentals, regulates short-term rentals, and even writes rules about short-term rental parking – yet it still hit this farm with a cease-and-desist order like the activity never should have existed in the first place.
That’s the core contradiction he keeps circling back to. In his words, this is what it looks like when something becomes “real enough to tax” but “not real enough to be legal.”…