Well, to be totally accurate — who can pay you to stay in your home and for how long.
The official agenda for the workshop on Tuesday, March 5 at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall has but one item listed: Short-term rentals.
After several previous sessions on the same subject, the two recently elected members of the council will get to hear what staff has come up with in the intervening months since the subject came up in the past year or so.
Mayor Kim Learnard noted during those earlier sessions that she herself owns a Michigan home that she rents out to AirBnB types. Learnard said that she hoped any first-time Peachtree City rules would come down on the side of lesser regulation rather than a heavier city hand on the side gig of some homeowners who bring in a little cash by renting out a bedroom or basement to tourists inside Peachtree City.
One former council member was at first dead-set against allowing any short-term rentals. He relented some by the time he left the council last December.
In earlier sessions, several residents who engaged in some of the short-term rentals urged the council to go easy on what has been a completely unregulated use of private properties until now.
The workshop setting lets the council work through some of the possibilities before voting on the new rules during a regular scheduled meeting.
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