OK, thanks. I'm back to my first point, that this is about protecting the hotel business in town. It's also about neighborhoods not wanting to allow businesses into their residential areas.
That's a tough one. I can see both sides.
This is indeed a tough one. The example I cited was 7 women in their 60s in a book club who spent three nights in an airbnb property in Asheville in a residential neighborhood. They spent plenty of money in restaurants, book stores and microbreweries - all of which fueled the local economy. As mentioned earlier, on many weekends you can't get a room in Athens which forces tourism dollars out of town including food and beverage. The problem I have is balancing individual property rights with community standards, whatever those are.