Short-Term Rentals: Daily Notes | November 10, 2026

GREENVILLE COUNTY, SC

Registration for every short-term rental and a designated contact who can respond to the property within 24 hours are at the center of a proposed ordinance that the Short-Term Rental Ad Hoc Committee was scheduled to begin discussing on November 9 as county leaders report rising rental activity and neighbor complaints.

Officials say some owners and operators are not paying the South Carolina accommodations tax or the county’s local accommodations fee so registration would help collect that revenue while addressing guest behavior and parking that blocks traffic.

BELLA VISTA, AR

A required distance between short-term rentals now heads to City Council after the Planning Commission decided on November 9 to forward the proposal following lengthy public comment while a cap on the number of rentals which now stands at 600 was not under consideration.

Commissioners reviewed a survey of about 820 participants, roughly a third of them rental owners, in which more than half favored some distance requirement though the commission took no final action and left the decision to council when it meets later this month.

RIVERSIDE, CA

Two years of data showing 161 licensed short-term rentals and lower tax revenue than before the city’s rules took effect go before City Council on November 10 in a review of how the short-term rental ordinance has worked with members set to discuss possible changes under item 24 of the agenda.

Options on the table include banning short-term rentals in accessory dwelling units and requiring permit numbers on rental listings, two changes that would tighten the ordinance as it enters its third year.

FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH, AK

Mayor Grier Hopkins will introduce Ordinance 2026-45 at the November 12 Assembly meeting to cap new short-term rentals each year at about 20% of new residential units built in the borough which would have allowed roughly 50 new rentals last year when 253 units were built.

The draft would also allow online registration and set standalone zoning definitions without adding taxes while legally operating rentals keep running. The Planning Commission has 90 days to send recommendations before an Assembly vote on a date to be confirmed ahead of a proposed July 1, 2027 effective date.

WESTFIELD, IN

Permits carrying a one-time $150 fee will be required for every short-term rental property starting January 1, 2027 after City Council approved a new ordinance that also bars rentals from housing sex offenders, operating structured sober living homes, selling illegal drugs or hosting adult entertainment.

Owners must renew permits each year at no added cost, list where the rental is advertised and follow existing parking, noise, nuisance and occupancy rules or risk revocation with the ordinance following a police investigation that found an alleged prostitution ring operating out of a local rental and led to three arrests.

WALDPORT, OR

Cottage clusters could not be used as short-term or vacation rentals under a housing code overhaul that the Planning Commission unanimously approved to merge the R1 through R4 zones into low density and high density zones ahead of a second public hearing before City Council on November 12.

The amendments carry over the rule that an accessory dwelling unit must share an owner with the main home and that neither can operate as a short-term or vacation rental while cottage clusters of at least four homes would become a new conditional use open to individual ownership or long-term rental.

BAR HARBOR, ME

Planning Board approval on November 4 of a lot merger lets the owners of Explore Acadia fold a parcel holding a resident-occupied short-term rental known as a VR-1 into the lodging business where converting that unit into a guest unit would raise the total from 13 to 14 guest units.

The Salisbury Cove Corridor District allows lodging of up to 25 guest units and 100 guests. An earlier amendment to the property’s approval already let four existing dwelling units operate as cabins rather than as short-term rentals.

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