The weather is getting warmer, so there’s no better time to start planning those socially distanced getaways than now.
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Return of the great STVR debate?
Only 28.6% of committee members attended the public forum on the subject at Savannah’s City Hall this past Saturday
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Editor’s Note: Ben Carter and the unicorn
The elephant in the room isn’t so much the number of tourists coming here, but the dwindling number of actual residents in Savannah’s Historic District. I know several people who live downtown who are literally the only full-time residents on their whole block. It’s not a good situation.
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Time to rewrite the Short-Term Vacation Rental Ordinance
The ordinance was written by and for the entrenched interests of downtown property owners, seeking to preserve their dominance in the short-term rental market, and hoteliers seeking to limit the growth of new, competing supply in a market where they are already concerned with over-building.
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Heart attack over a hotel tax
HAPPENING late in the evening of March 31, some hoped against hope that it was just an elaborate April Fools Day prank. But the literally last-minute inclusion of a whopping […]
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Airbnbusted?
Martinez has been advised that since the City has no actual ordinance to cover Airbnb rentals, the judicial interpretation of her citations may not be valid under the traditional bed-and-breakfast header.
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Airbnb: Share a room, save the world?
In our Citizens United-flavored dystopia, the only person looking out for what’s left of the middle class as it continues to die a miserable death might be the paying guest lodged in your spare bedroom.