By Jason W. Brooks | Your Valley
It’s great to be able to travel out of town and rent a room or a small guest quarters in someone’s well-kept home.
However, some deregulation that’s taken place in Arizona — particularly one state law passed in 2016 — has created a number of problems in communities across the state.
Some northwest Valley leaders, local-governance advocates and others in the Valley are lobbying the state legislature for changes or rollbacks to Senate Bill 1350. That 2016 law, which prevents local municipalities from creating rules or restrictions unique to short-term rentals, has handcuffed local Arizona governments from combating some of the ills that go with the business boom of companies such as AirBnB and VRBO.
