Garland is the latest city in North Texas to add tighter provisions for short-term rentals. The city council approved the new regulations this month and they went into effect a week ago.
Mayor Dylan Hedrick told KERA the push to tighten up the regulations came from residents themselves.
“We had already put some regulations in the past maybe three or four years ago, but we realized that that wasn’t quite having the effect that we wanted to regulate these problem properties,” he said…