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Summit County homeowners filed a federal lawsuit on Monday, Aug. 14, to halt new regulations on short-term rental properties in unincorporated parts of the county.
The lawsuit alleges the Summit Board of County Commissioners imposed “successively more severe, wide-ranging, misguided and unlawful regulations” when they voted to implement caps on short-term rental licenses and limits on bookings earlier this year.
Alleging harm to property owners’ livelihoods, the lawsuit states that short-term rentals remain “a supplemental source of income for homeowners, many of whom rely on that income to pay for their mortgages or for other basic needs.”
The complaint goes on to list multiple plaintiffs who it claims will lose tens of thousands of dollars and will not be able to pay their mortgages because of the regulations. It also states the license cap exception for full-time residents creates a “discriminatory treatment of out-of-state residents and, thus, is not legitimate.”
The voices of short-term rental supporters “were ignored by the county,” the lawsuit reads.
