Cranston City Councilman Frank Ritz says that an app that allows homeowners to rent out backyard swimming pools is facilitating wild parties that resemble “MTV Spring Break ’99.”
The app, known as Swimply, is intended “to give families without pools access to the physical, mental and social benefits of swimming,” according to founder and CEO Bunim Laskin.
But it’s being used in problematic ways, Ritz contends. Last summer, he began receiving complaints about one particular property in Cranston where parties were taking place “well past midnight,” with a DJ and strobe light and around 100 people in the backyard…