CAMDEN The Camden Town Office and the Select Board have acknowledged for several years the deficit of workforce and affordable housing in Camden, as the hot real estate market raised the price tags on existing homes, and the available stock shrunk.
CAMDEN The Town of Camden wants hard data not industry estimates of how many property owners are using their homes as short term rentals; therefore, a proposed ordinance is to appear on the June Town Meeting warrant asking voters to approve the requisite registration of un-hosted short term rental properties.
“The point is to count them,” said board member Alison McKellar, in the wake of comments from residents skeptical of the need for the proposed language.
See attached PDF for full ordinance amendment
The proposed ordinance came before the Select Board at its April 6 regularly schedule meeting, along with two other proposed ordinances to get placed on the June Town Meeting warrant (outdoor storage of boats and tradesman shops to be allowed in Coastal Residential and amending the town’s zoning map so that the town-owned wastewater plant lot is not split between two zones).