GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – On Tuesday evening, Green Bay alders approved new rules for short-term rentals in the city.
City officials, including the mayor, as well as short-term rental owners, say the new rules are the result of extensive collaboration across several months focused on reaching a solution that benefited all parties involved.
“What has been written into the new ordinance is more so to uplift the community and the industry as a whole,” said local short-term rental owner Brooke Tassoul. “We want to contribute to this community and want to know if people feel like we’re a problem to the community. Whatever way we can put forth effort to better everyone’s situation, we want to do that.”
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The new short-term rental rules include:
- Posted house rules must include parking requirements, on-street parking restrictions, noise requirements, and contact information for the designated local contact person.
- City of Green Bay officials must maintain a database with information on all the short-term rentals in the city.
- It adds questions to the application for somebody to obtain a short-term rental permit. The city will reject any incomplete application.
- If a short-term rental owner receives a nuisance complaint, they will attend a correction meeting with the city before city officials can revoke or suspend their permits. A short-term rental owner can also appeal a nuisance complaint in front of the city’s plan commission.
“We’re absolutely in favor (of the new rules),” Tassoul told Local 5 News. “A lot of the things that are in there are just more clarifications on some of the rules that already existed, and giving the city a little more room to enforce the rules with the language they’re putting in. We’re absolutely in favor of our industry being in compliance just like any other industry has those expectations.”…