By Tom Scanlon | Scottsdale Progress
Good fences, Robert Frost wrote, make good neighbors.
But not with short-term rentals, some Scottsdale residents would snidely add.
Indeed, rather than the soothing poetry of “A Mending Wall,” Scottsdale City Council is attempting to muscle up by amending a law.
Even so, several of Scottsdale’s elected officials grumbled they are pretty much caught between a rock and a loud place: The rock being state law, which permits homeowners to rent their dwellings – without saying much about noise produced by the ready-to-rumble renters swarming party destinations like Scottsdale.
Rather than walling off the party crowd, city officials hope tweaking Scottsdale’s laws will help the cause.
The residents who have been calling police to report repeated disturbances in their formerly-sleepy neighborhoods might take comfort in last week’s council meeting – unless they focus on Mayor David Ortega’s doom-and-gloom commentary.
