CALUMET, Mich. (AP) — A few of Michigan’s smallest cities are seeing ripples from short-term lodging popularized by Airbnb and different web sites.
Calumet is on the Keweenaw Peninsula within the far north of the Higher Peninsula. Brief-term leases got here up at a latest assembly of the village planning fee.
The chairwoman, Colleen Kobe, stated the leases are usually not a permitted use below Calumet’s zoning legislation, The Every day Mining Gazette reported.
“These actually should not be taking place there,” Kobe stated of short-term leases in downtown flats.
And even when the ordinance is modified, Airbnb-style leases may scale back long-term leases and trigger a inhabitants loss, Kobe stated.
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“The opposite factor, which could not be all that standard,” stated Kobe, “is we may begin taxing. That’s what different communities do, the town of Chicago began doing that, as a result of it’s identical to a lodge.”
Planning commissioner Virginia Dwyer stated Hancock, 12 miles south, permits short-term leases, however the proprietor should pay for a allow and have a property inspected.
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