Short-Term Rental Has Long List of Issues • Senior Living Proposed Near DART Bridge • Voters to Consider Amendments and Bonds • Coppell Lacrosse Eyes More Exposure
Dan, your first article sent down a bit of a rabbit hole. I looked at older images of the Crestview house on Google Earth. You can see that illegal addition on the back of their house spring up sometime between July and October of 2021. I also went to check AirBnB listings for houses in our little town. Thankfully, there's only a couple of active listings there, but I did the same on VRBO and found over 15. Most of those listings are for houses that do not appear on the city's graphic showing the location of approved and licensed short term rentals. A couple of the VRBO listings are for "corporate housing" with a 30 minimum to get around our ordinance, but most are operating just like an AirBnB. I know that the city's graphic is 18 months old, but given how well informed I am thanks to your newsletter, I am doubtful that all of those houses made their way through the licensing process.
Thank you for the unbiased information on the upcoming election for constitutional amendments. My grandfather owned/edited/published our Pennsylvania hometown newspaper for a dozen years in the early twentieth century. He never wrote an editorial. In his memoirs he explained why. He believed it was the responsibility of newspapers to print the unvarnished truth, just the facts, but all the facts. He wrote that if he did so, his readers were intelligent enough to form their own opinions and did not need to be told how to think. (I would also recommend your readers scan the summaries on the League of Women Voters website for information on elections.)
Of course Aziz focused on the smoke detectors and lawn infractions as “not a big thing”. An addition of livable space, not permitted by the City, not taxed by the County. That’s a big deal thing! Tip of the iceberg, thankfully Denied.
I’m still floored by a recent post of yours stating that 1 company owns 50 of the 1,400+ Rentals in Coppell. It does seem many homes in Coppell are bought with the intention of turning them into Rentals.
Dan, your first article sent down a bit of a rabbit hole. I looked at older images of the Crestview house on Google Earth. You can see that illegal addition on the back of their house spring up sometime between July and October of 2021. I also went to check AirBnB listings for houses in our little town. Thankfully, there's only a couple of active listings there, but I did the same on VRBO and found over 15. Most of those listings are for houses that do not appear on the city's graphic showing the location of approved and licensed short term rentals. A couple of the VRBO listings are for "corporate housing" with a 30 minimum to get around our ordinance, but most are operating just like an AirBnB. I know that the city's graphic is 18 months old, but given how well informed I am thanks to your newsletter, I am doubtful that all of those houses made their way through the licensing process.
Thank you for the unbiased information on the upcoming election for constitutional amendments. My grandfather owned/edited/published our Pennsylvania hometown newspaper for a dozen years in the early twentieth century. He never wrote an editorial. In his memoirs he explained why. He believed it was the responsibility of newspapers to print the unvarnished truth, just the facts, but all the facts. He wrote that if he did so, his readers were intelligent enough to form their own opinions and did not need to be told how to think. (I would also recommend your readers scan the summaries on the League of Women Voters website for information on elections.)
Of course Aziz focused on the smoke detectors and lawn infractions as “not a big thing”. An addition of livable space, not permitted by the City, not taxed by the County. That’s a big deal thing! Tip of the iceberg, thankfully Denied.
I’m still floored by a recent post of yours stating that 1 company owns 50 of the 1,400+ Rentals in Coppell. It does seem many homes in Coppell are bought with the intention of turning them into Rentals.