{"id":12070,"date":"2019-03-05T14:45:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12070"},"modified":"2019-03-05T17:13:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:13:15","slug":"update-from-reader-on-illegal-adu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12070","title":{"rendered":"Update from Reader on Illegal AirBnB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/youth-hostel-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/youth-hostel-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/youth-hostel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/youth-hostel-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/youth-hostel.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A reader has also been curious about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12061\">the illegal AirBnB that I profiled yesterday<\/a> and contacted the Montgomery County office of the Maryland Department of Assessment and Taxation asking that the property be reclassified as commercial. <em>(Note: this is a state, not a county office.)<\/em> Here is the reply they received:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We have researched and found that the property is zoned R-60 for residential use and does&nbsp;not&nbsp;have any type of special use agreement with the Montgomery County Department of Permitting Services, Zoning and Site Plan Division .&nbsp; Therefore we will not reclassify the account as commercial property.&nbsp; Our records also show that the property is not owner occupied, so there is no further action to be taken by the State of Maryland.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The owner doesn&#8217;t live there but continues to run a commercial youth hostel out of the house. The lack of commercial classification on the property seems woefully unfair to hotels engaged in the same business&#8211;renting out spaces in non-owner occupied structures. It is also quite different from an owner renting out a room or two in their own home, as AirBnB was originally conceived and presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, it has been over a year since a county resident made a complaint about this illegal ADU and it&#8217;s still going strong. The use is not remotely consistent with the zoning code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader has also been curious about the illegal AirBnB that I profiled yesterday and contacted the Montgomery County office of the Maryland Department of Assessment and Taxation asking that the property be reclassified as commercial. (Note: this is a state, not a county office.) Here is the reply they received: We have researched and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12070\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update from Reader on Illegal AirBnB<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1054],"tags":[2269],"class_list":["post-12070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","tag-accessory-dwelling-units"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-38G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12070"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12077,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12070\/revisions\/12077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}