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Legislative Alert:  URGENT Call to Action

The Michigan Association of Planning is closely following the Short Term Rental Bills (SB 329 & HB 4503) and we expect that Senate Bill 329 will receive a hearing in the local government committee next Tuesday, October 10, 2017.  MAP opposes both bills.  A confirmation that the hearing is confirmed will be sent as soon as we know, so watch for an email with the subject LEGISLATIVE ALERT in the next few days.

The Bills would preempt local municipalities from regulating short-term rentals, eliminating all local zoning control over these uses. Under these bills, Short Term Rentals are re-classified from commercial land uses to residential land uses and would be exempt from reasonable local land use regulations.  Language in the bills would allow any existing lease to be amended to a 28-day or less reoccurring lease and to qualify as a short-term rental and be exempt from local regulation.

A dangerous precedent would be set if the bills pass, paving the way for additional preemptions to local zoning and potentially leading to further erosions to local control. 

MAP urges you to help defeat these bills.  Call, email and send letters to your legislators.  ATTEND the committee hearing if you are able, and plan to testify against the bill. 

It is very important to reach out to your local legislators, especially your senator, and the senate members of the committee where this bill has been referred to!

MAP is part of a coalition seeking to defeat these bills.  Here are MAP talking points. We are collaborating with the Michigan Municipal League (MML) (find their talking points here) and with the MI Lodging & Tourism Association (see their press release).   

Share this information with your elected and appointed officials, staff, neighborhood groups, concerned citizens, colleagues, and others.

Find your State legislator HERE.

Find Senate Local Government Committee Members HERE.

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