The North Richland Hills City Council voted unanimously last week to apply new regulations to short-term rentals, or STRs, in the city.

The move lines up with a regional trend to restrict the use of residential homes as rental properties, like through Airbnb and VRBO.

While members of the public came out to both support and oppose the move, city officials said most of the feedback they received in the lead-up to the vote was in favor of regulating these businesses.

Mayor Jack McCarty told KERA that current property owners who operate STRs in compliance with the new regulations and get permits will be grandfathered into the policy.

“We were trying to be fair in what we were doing because we've got a transit-oriented district, and some multi-family and some commercial,” he said. “We said

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