The responses have been really helpful here.

Be responsive, communicative, deliver on what you say you are going to deliver (e.g. photos are true representation of your properties, amenities reflect what you actually have).  

My dude, this was the most fantastically detailed response!

This is terrible advice/response. 

Vague answers mean you don't know the answer, so your response will lose you the business you were trying to get.3.

Your response also got me thinking about how this classification might impact the appraisal if this is not a mistake.Rick 

Several participants made the point in response that the county for a very long time has stood in the way of affordable housing being constructed, first and foremost by zoning, and that an STR ban isn't going to solve the problem.

I’m curious about what my rights and responsibilities are in this situation.

The sales comparison approach is typically done for residential real estate and will be less appropriate and come in under value because there are no good comps, and even an appraisal using the income approach (unless the appraiser is trained to do more complex commercial appraisals) is probably not going to be the most accurate either because they typically use market cap rates and in this case you don’t have good comparable income properties to find the market cap for the analysis.  

Would love to see your original response, Travis!