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Sunday, October 9, 2022
Big ballot to hit Mesa early voters’ mailboxes BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer
NEWS................... 12 Despite reforms, county pounds still need more.
COMMUNITY...... 17 Mesa pair open new approach to fitness.
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he massive Nov. 8 ballot will begin arriving in Mesa early voters’ mailboxes this week and some local contests share the spotlight with marquee races like the ones for a new governor and the hotly contested U.S. Senate seat. Along with races for all statewide offices, 10 propositions and local representatives to Congress and the state Legislature, Mesa voters will be selecting candidates for one city council seat and two Mesa Public Schools Governing Board
see ELECTION page 8
Jenn Duff
Trista Guzman Glover
Mesa tightening the reins on short-term rentals BUSINESS............ 22 Mesa man realizes dream of nation's first indoor cornhole venue. COMMUNITY .............................. 17 BUSINESS ................................... 22 OPINION ..................................... 25 SPORTS ...................................... 26 GET OUT ...................................... 27 CLASSIFIED ............................... 31 ZONE 2
BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer
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he Mesa City Council will consider adopting new short-term rental rules Oct. 17 that would require rental owners to obtain a $250 license, submit local emergency contact information and notify neighbors when a property will be used as a short-term rental, among other new stipulations. The proposed rules align with a state
law passed in the last legislative session granting cities more power to oversee short-term rentals. And they are similar to those recently adopted by Scottsdale City Council. After preempting the authority of cities to regulate vacation rentals in 2016, the state Legislature has been slowly meting out powers back to local governments, following lobbying by cities and other stakeholders – balanced by lobbying from vacation rental platforms like
Airbnb and local owners. The state’s latest short-term rental law may be the most meaningful so far, giving cities for the first time since 2016 the power to license short-term rentals and suspend licenses for certain types of violations and repeat offenders. Mesa intends to use its new powers, and council members generally supported the proposed short-term rental ordinance, which would go into effect Feb. 1,
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