The city’s controversial short-term rental regulations need more “checks and balances” to “protect residential neighborhoods” from landlords looking to cash in on platforms like Airbnb and VRBO, Zoning Board of Appeal members warned as they brace for an influx of applications from developers looking to rezone their properties.
“There are ramifications citywide and we need to have conditions come from the city so that we have a standard boilerplate that’s going to protect residential neighborhoods,” Chairwoman Christine Araujo said. “From the city’s perspective what we need is checks and balances on this to make sure that it doesn’t become something else.”
The board on Tuesday faced its first application to convert an existing residence into executive suites since the city’s zoning commission tightened regulations around the use last month. The regulatory change sought to limit landlords’ ability to exploit what many saw as a loophole in the city’s short-term rental ordinance, allowing them to take apartments off of the year-round rental market in favor of the more-lucrative short-term rentals.
Richard Beliveau of Volnay Capital is seeking to tear down a single-family home at 125 Addison St. in East Boston and replace it with a building with nine executive suites.
These “conversions from existing houses into short-term rentals and executive suites” are the exact projects the city has tried to clamp down on with recent regulations, said a spokeswoman from the mayor’s Department of Neighborhood Services.
“This isn’t intended to be built for an Airbnb-type operation,” Beliveau’s attorney, Richard Lynes told the board. Instead, the apartments would be geared toward “executives, attorneys, doctors, students who need short-term housing” somewhere in the three- to six-month range.
But without “boilerplate conditions” from the city, Araujo said there’s nothing to stop executive suites from becoming a euphemism for the kinds of short-term rentals the city has worked to vanquish. The board voted to refer the application to the city’s law department.
“I understand the need for executive suites and I think it’s a long-standing use,” Araujo said. “What are the conditions that we can place on this to make it work?”
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