From the cover
Restrictions pose challenges for short-term rental owners
What’s happening?
LONG PRAIRIE RD.
Active rentals
LAKE GRAPEVINE
Apartments or condos Houses, single-family homes
121
Grapevine’s ordinance took effect Jan. 16. It requires applicants to pay the annual permitting fee, restrict operations to apartments and limit operations to no more than 180 days per year. “Short-term rentals have never been allowed in single-family neighborhoods in the city because they are wholly incompatible with their neighbors,” City Attorney Matthew Boyle said in an email. Grapevine projections show the city making more than $10.3 million this fiscal year in hotel occupancy taxes. The city does not expect to collect any of these taxes from short-term rentals, nor is the city interested in that money, Boyle said. John Perrault, a short-term rental operator, said he thought the regulations on single-family homes were unfair compared to nearby cities that allow them with permits. “I have no problem with a permit fee, no problem with any ordinances ... as long as it’s fair,” Perrault said at the Jan. 16 meeting.
114
84* number of active rentals *AS OF DECEMBER 2023
Southlake
26
635
SOUTHLAKE BLVD.
Types of listings:
114
Colleyville
121
84% entire home
16% private room
Grapevine
360
HALL-JOHNSON RD.
COLLEYVILLE BLVD.
97
GLADE RD.
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