City Council takes another crack at ‘party houses’
“Instead of looking to Nashville for any of this, what we are hoping to bring is something we can control,” City Council member Philip Spinosa said of short-term rental properties. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
Council Chair Ford Canale and Council member Philip Spinosa are working on a proposal they hope will not draw the attention of Airbnb lobbyists in Nashville who undid some of the regulations council members put in place in 2016.
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