Noosa has battled to control short-term lettings in residential areas that attract large number of tenants whose rowdy socialising impacts nearby neighbours. I understand that this is a police matter and that we can only regulate the land use, Cr Lorentson said. Police as we know are under resourced ⦠my question is why can t we give our local laws officers greater powers? Cr Lorentson said. She said there had to be a point when the council decided to step up and act. However, Mr de Chastel rejected the idea, citing concerns about putting local laws officers in harm s way. Noosa through its planning scheme has prohibited approving party houses .
Blewett and District 9 council member Paula Blackmon helped lead a short-term rental task force that presented several recommendations to the Quality of Life, Arts, and Culture Committee on Tuesday, including occupancy and noise limits. During the virtual meeting, Blewett said many of his constituents would like to see an outright ban on short-term rentals.
Other council members also empathized with single-family neighborhood residents who are plagued by perpetual parties.
“If my neighbor next door put a party house in the backyard that they rented out nightly for parties with 20 to 30 people, that is like my worst nightmare,” said District 1’s Chad West.
PANDEMIC PARTY HOUSES-The list of problems our city government has left to fester is long and troubling, and party houses operating in short-term rentals sat far from the top of that list.
Now a New Year’s Eve shooting has moved the issue up a few spots, at least in the quiet Beverly Grove neighborhood. Think of it as Number 3 with a bullet.
Like their counterparts across LA, homeowners and residents in Beverly Grove have begged the city to clamp down on short-term rentals and party houses. For more than a year, pleas to the Council office, the City Attorney, and the LAPD have met with sympathy, finger-pointing, and inaction.