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Tourist Rooming Houses Get OC Crackdown

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A growing business of renting prime recreational property has drawn a response from Oneida county.
Complaints about tourist rooming houses has led to lawsuits and actions against property owners. At issue are property owners who work a type of timeshare agreement where renters live in the home for a fee, sometimes in the range of several thousand dollars.

Most of these arrangements violate the county's zoning codes, says Planning and Zoning Director Karl Jenrich. He says renting in this manner in certain zoning districts violates the law..

"....so Oneida county, in it's zoning districts, especially District 2, single family residential, have prohibited, what we call weekly rentals or tourist rooming houses..."

Jenrich says this type of rental needs a permit from both Planning and Zoning and  the Health Department in a district that is zoned to take this type of rental.. Jenrich says many people like to get income from property that is expensive and sitting idle. But this type of rental often finds people making noise and causing problems in the neighborhood, which leads to complaints. Upon checking, Jenrich says, they will find a property that is illegally becoming a rooming house. Businesses that are permitted and following the rules also have complained about their squatter competitors.

He says the properties often are listed on sites advertising recreational home rentals.

Jenrich says the problems often are resolved short of other action as most people stop taking money for the housing, but some have persisted,leading to court action.

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