CBC News
The City of Richmond, B.C., is considering how to legalize short-term rentals.
A staff report tabled Tuesday recommends regulating the operations because it says that would be more practical than banning them outright.
“We’re faced with choices. We can either ignore the problem, attempt to prohibit it, which would be really difficult or we could do what we did with secondary suites,” Mayor Malcolm Brodie told On The Coast host Stephen Quinn.
“We said we would allow them under certain circumstances. We’ll control, we’ll regulate and monitor the situation to make sure there’s some semblance of order.” …