The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court alleges Park Township violated property owners’ constitutional rights by banning short-term rentals after allowing them for decades.
The lawsuit was filed by Park Township Neighbors, a nonprofit made up of property owners. It claims township officials repeatedly interpreted a zoning ordinance that was in effect before March 2024 to allow STRs in residential areas. A March 2024 amendment to that ordinance bans STRs in residential areas outright.
The lawsuit alleges that to prevent previously existing STRs from being grandfathered in and continuing to operate, the township created an “after-the-fact interpretation” of the previous zoning ordinance…