Photo by Liz Copan / Studio Copan A petition is circulating around Frisco to restrict short-term rental units as one resident’s effort to address a lack of affordable workforce housing. James Hayes Walsh announced his intention to start a petition to prohibit short-term rentals for single-family homes, except when the home rented is a person’s primary residence, at a Frisco Town Council meeting in early June. “I’m trying to, through direct initiative, pass an ordinance that will prioritize locals for single-family home rentals,” Walsh said. “If somebody can finance a house to help subsidize their mortgage because they’re living there and turning the rooms over and getting a high return, that’s great, we want that. If an investment group can come in, buy a house, pay a management company to do short-term rentals … for five to 10 years then flip the property for a profit, that’s bad.”