However, there also seems to be evidence from committee meetings supporting short-term rentals being authorized in historic neighborhoods like mine as long as guests adhere to a 7-night minimum stay.

If you're looking for appraisal value an ADU may not be the best bet, but if you intend to sell, my anecdotal evidence suggests in dense highly desirable neighborhoods, ADU square footage will gross the same as the main house.

:@Seth Borman“Zoning was largely created to assist speculators in profiting from zone changes”Are you aware of substantial evidence to back up this claim?

The sale evidently resulted in Quest’s owners getting zippo (hearsay, working to confirm that). 

There are good ones out there who have a good business, but from what is evident on this site, they are few and far in between.

An awful lot of hullabaloo about something that seems self evident and not nearly as complicated as this discussion is making it. 

I couldn’t help but wonder how many times I have ignored obvious warning signs and other evidence that I was calmly, confidently and boldly driving in the wrong direction. 

They are evident everywhere.

for 3 houses under contract and taking it as evidence of the program effectiveness...

Claims require certain types of evidence to pass each step.