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Ottawa’s hotel industry will ask city hall to consider regulations for short-term home rentals, which have become popular through the booking website Airbnb.
Steve Ball, president of the Ottawa Gatineau Hotel Association, said the industry has decided municipalities, not just the province, have a role to play in monitoring the short-term rental market.
Airbnb connects people interested in renting their homes with people looking for accommodations. The company released a study in September on its Ontario market, including data on where people are looking for Airbnb accommodations.
According to the company, 171,230 Ontario residents used Airbnb to travel in 2015 and two per cent of them stayed in Ottawa, which was in the top seven destinations.
Ottawa Airbnb home page shows available accommodations, locations. (Airbnb)
Ball said the city has indicated short-term rental regulations are a provincial issue, but he believes it’s a municipal concern.
The hotel industry isn’t worried about homeowners who occasionally rent the spaces in which the live.
“Our bigger concern is commercial hosts,” Ball said.
Those are the property owners who have a roster of homes available for short-term rentals, operating as a mini hotel chain, except not paying HST and possibly not adhering to zoning rules.
Ball said one option is licensing the property hosts and leaving it up to companies like Airbnb to make sure hosts are following regulations.
The City of Toronto is considering regulating short-term rentals, with a proposed regime expected by mid-2017.
Ball said he would like the City of Ottawa’s attention to short-term rentals sooner than later, especially since 2017 and Canada’s 150th birthday will be a boon for accommodation providers.
However, it could be difficult to turn the city’s attention to Airbnb during this term of council, especially if it requires a bylaw review. The bylaw department already has a busy work plan and it just finished a lengthy process to create licensing regulations for alternative transportation providers like Uber.
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Steve Ball, president of the Ottawa Gatineau Hotel Association, said the industry has decided municipalities, not just the province, have a role to play in monitoring the short-term rental market.
Airbnb connects people interested in renting their homes with people looking for accommodations. The company released a study in September on its Ontario market, including data on where people are looking for Airbnb accommodations.
According to the company, 171,230 Ontario residents used Airbnb to travel in 2015 and two per cent of them stayed in Ottawa, which was in the top seven destinations.
Ottawa Airbnb home page shows available accommodations, locations. (Airbnb)
Ball said the city has indicated short-term rental regulations are a provincial issue, but he believes it’s a municipal concern.
The hotel industry isn’t worried about homeowners who occasionally rent the spaces in which the live.
“Our bigger concern is commercial hosts,” Ball said.
Those are the property owners who have a roster of homes available for short-term rentals, operating as a mini hotel chain, except not paying HST and possibly not adhering to zoning rules.
Ball said one option is licensing the property hosts and leaving it up to companies like Airbnb to make sure hosts are following regulations.
The City of Toronto is considering regulating short-term rentals, with a proposed regime expected by mid-2017.
Ball said he would like the City of Ottawa’s attention to short-term rentals sooner than later, especially since 2017 and Canada’s 150th birthday will be a boon for accommodation providers.
However, it could be difficult to turn the city’s attention to Airbnb during this term of council, especially if it requires a bylaw review. The bylaw department already has a busy work plan and it just finished a lengthy process to create licensing regulations for alternative transportation providers like Uber.
jwilling@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JonathanWilling
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