The Waterbury Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Monday night to approve an ordinance banning hourly hotel and motel room rentals in the city. It’s a move city officials say is aimed at reducing crime, including human trafficking and prostitution.

“We know that rooms rented by the hour cause only one thing, and that’s problems,” Paul Kondash, a city resident who supports the ordinance, said.

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Proposed by Mayor Paul Pernerewski Jr., the ordinance prohibits any hotel, motel or rooming house from renting rooms for fewer than 12 hours at a time.

Pernerewski said the ordinance is another tool to help law enforcement address criminal activity in the area.

“If you’re renting a room for an hour, three, four hours, we know

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