By Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Maricopa Monitor
PHOENIX — A 2016 law that Gov. Doug Ducey has touted as helping people who want to make extra cash by renting their house on Airbnb and other platforms would be repealed, if a GOP-sponsored bill letting cities and towns to regulate short-term rentals wins approval.
“We’re now trying to get a little bit of control back,” Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, said about his proposal during a House Government and Elections meeting, saying that problems with short-term rentals mostly relate to noise, litter and traffic. “I think this is a milder intervention.”
His proposal, House Bill 2481, would allow cities and towns to create residential use and zoning ordinances related to short-term rentals. It would also require all short-term rental owners register with the property with the city, town or county, which must then report who owns those properties to the Arizona Department of Revenue.
