{"id":3265,"date":"2015-06-16T15:32:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T19:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nornow.org\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2015-06-16T15:32:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T19:32:50","slug":"p-z-to-hold-public-hearing-on-airbnb-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nornow.org\/2015\/06\/16\/p-z-to-hold-public-hearing-on-airbnb-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"P & Z to Hold Public Hearing on Airbnb Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Commission opts for minimal regulation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Wiley Wood<\/p>\n<p>Are private individuals who rent out rooms in Norfolk via the Internet competing unfairly with licensed bed-and-breakfasts? This was the charge brought to the Planning and Zoning Commission last fall by Dean Johnson, owner of the Mountain View Inn.<\/p>\n<p>The commission reviewed its regulations this winter and, on June 9, will hold a public hearing to present its proposed regulatory changes and hear any comments from the public.<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on issues of safety and public order, the commission chose not to weigh in on whether the competition of online services such as Airbnb is fair or unfair.<\/p>\n<p>The amended regulations will allow absentee house owners to rent to family groups for a night or for a year without a special permit.<\/p>\n<p>Home owners may also rent up to two bedrooms of the house they live in without restriction. Renting rooms to students, which has always been allowed in Norfolk, falls under a relaxed provision, with unrestricted rental of up to four bedrooms for three consecutive months.<\/p>\n<p>Rental of three or more bedrooms in one\u2019s home is deemed to be a business use, and a special permit is required. The application process requires a visit from the building inspector and the fire marshal, and the cost of the permit is $410. Rental of an unoccupied house to any but a family group also requires a permit.<\/p>\n<p>The public hearing will be held at 6:45 p.m. on June 9 in Norfolk\u2019s town hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commission opts for minimal regulation By Wiley Wood Are private individuals who rent out rooms in Norfolk via the Internet competing unfairly with licensed bed-and-breakfasts? This was the charge brought to the Planning and Zoning Commission last fall by Dean Johnson, owner of the Mountain View Inn. The commission reviewed its regulations this winter and, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-june-2015","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nornow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nornow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nornow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nornow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nornow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nornow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3266,"href":"https:\/\/nornow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nornow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nornow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nornow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}