The city of Phoenix is planning for how it can make sure short-term rentals are permitted with the city and how to enforce background checks designed to bar sex offenders from staying at the rentals.
The move comes after recent changes in state allowed cites to have more control over the businesses following a move by the state Legislature that essentially hamstrung municipalities from doing anything at all.
Council members on the Transportation, Infrastructure and Planning Subcommittee meeting in June advanced a new ordinance to align the city’s laws on short-term rentals with the new state law but also lamented the state Legislature continuing to providing little control to municipal governments. The ordinance will come before city council in September.
