Williamsburg won’t move forward with a plan to vet off-campus student rentals after it received tepid feedback from landlords.
“There has been great support, but it seems like it’s waning,” Mayor Doug Pons said during Monday’s council meeting. “Certainly don’t want to jump into a program that’s not going to be successful.
The Rent Ready program has been on the city’s priority list since 2021, one of several ideas forwarded by a committee in 2019 to foster a better neighborhood balance in communities around William & Mary…