city illegally telling me to shut down my Air BNBS ?

[Ashley Turner]

I have 2 rentals (they are townhouses right next to each other) for 2 years now, I have been doing air BNB out of them and the return is great and I was able to make this my full time job by doing the cleaning on my own! I love it and I’ve never been happier! 

When I first started I went to city hall, and asked if there was anything I had to do and to make sure it was allowed, they basically just told me everything fine it’s so new we really don’t have any rules in place do what you want…. Fast forward 2 years I get a letter in the mail saying I am to shut my air bnbs down immediately! 

Now I didn’t know much about zoning or any of this until this happened but I’ve did a lot of research, and I think what they are doing is illegal, they are treating me as if I am in a U-1 zone but I am a U-2 and in the picture below it says I am able to run an apartment hotel in this zone. So I’m unclear why I need to even go in front of city council and the zoning commission (and they also told me I will be denied before even giving me a chance)

Now they sent me a email the day of,  cramming both meeting with the planning and zoning back to back, today! 

If anyone is able to give me any advice or help. It would be appreciated!

I am in Brookpark OH and in a U-2 A4 zone

[James Hamling]

Quote from @Trevor Neale:

@Ashley Turner so sorry!! I heard about it on the news. I guess people making to much money they they want control of it

No, it has NOTHING to do with that and actually, it's been around for many MANY decades. 

Way too many like to dream on the STR is something new, recently invented, because the past never knew anything about anything and were so tech, were so hip, ooohhhh-aaahhh look at all these cool shinny things we "made".

No. STR is just a new way to market a boarding house/rooming house, and by all reality it's a micro-motel.

Rooming/boarding homes have been around for 100yrs+ in US. 

Such properties have long been regulated in their placement. Hotels/Motels have long been regulated for their placement within a city. 

Cities require planning, each thing with it's place of viability because there is roads built to certain use, water/sewer, a whole looooong laundry list of assorted facilitating services. AND not to mention, the EXPERIENCE. 

Simply put, do you want to live next door to a Super-8? Yeah, to no surprise neither do most people. And a city that has people NOT wanting to live in certain residential areas, is a serious issue. 

Cities have a design, and this is just the beginning of cities formalizing the "fences" for how and where STR's can operate within a city, that is positive for the city design and not negative to it.

The $ is a non-factor. Because if there is the demand, trust me Hilton brings in WAY more $ than any handful of STR's. If it were about $, they'd just say no STR's and leave it to the Hilton's of the world.

It's about city design, city planning, having a vibrant city with each thing in it's place so the whole rat's nest of things operates well.