83% of Harrisonburg Short Term Rental Special Use Permit Applications Approved
Scott P. Rogers
The Planning Commission for the City of Harrisonburg will hold a work session on October 29, 2019 at 2:00 PM to discuss Short Term Rental regulations. You'll find the agenda here and one of the attachments (this one) provides a concise overview of the status of each property for which a property owner has applied for a special use permit to use their property as a Short Term Rental.
There are a few properties still working their way through the process, but of the 33 properties listed on the summary sheet, 29 have had an outcome of some sort and I illustrated those outcomes on the graph above.
A few observations...
- City Council has never denied a Short Term Rental special use permit application.
- Five property owners have withdrawn their request at some point prior to City Council making a decision -- maybe they got the sense that City Council was going to deny their application?
- Of the 24 approved applications, 15 of those were with the blessing of both staff and planning commission.
It will be interesting to see if there are any adjustments to the regulations or process for applying and reviewing those applications. Stay tuned -- or attend the work session!
