Updated / Tuesday, 6 Apr 2021
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Putting creativity, diversity, community and history, centre stage, the annual MusicTown festival nurtures collaborations between artists and across disciplines - Festival Director Leagues O Toole introduces this year s virtual edition.
So last year we frantically chased our tails, rescheduling and postponing and cancelling and trying to diagnose the effects a pandemic would have on the arts and its various associated industries. Until we finally slumped into some sort of mode of defeated acceptance that it wasn t leaving us soon and we had to somehow transcend the lethargy and exhaustion of all this to think of new ways to present work online.
One year ago, COVID decimated the music industry and the first band out of the blocks were Dundalk trio The Mary Wallopers. Unfazed by the immeasurable obstacle.
PEORIA After months of debate, the Peoria City Council approved a compromise plan to allow short-term rentals within the city s limits that some say strikes a balance between property rights and neighborhood concerns.
Until the council acted Tuesday, short-term rentals where a property owner markets their home or condo through websites such as Airbnb, HomeAway or VRBO were illegal in the city.
Since the idea was first floated before the Horseshoe last June, it s been a battle between balancing the rights of people who own property and want to make a dime on it and those who live in the neighborhood.
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Homeowners in the City of Peoria can now legally market their homes as short-term rentals on platforms such as Airbnb, but only after obtaining the appropriate license.
The ordinance passed at Tuesday night’s city council meeting also allows for some non owner-occupied residential properties to be used as short-term rentals if approved for a special use by the city.
“All of them have to have a local license, which is similar to a hotel license which has been in existence for many years in Peoria,” said Ross Black, the city s director of community development.
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