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HURRICANE — For many Southern Utah residents, an annoying neighbor might be one with a crowing rooster, a barking dog or loud music in an adjacent apartment. For others, high-performance recreational vehicles speeding down the road and tour bus-sized motorhomes clogging the street would better fit the description.
Washington County has become a hotspot for short-term rentals in the last decade.
Close to Zion National Park, which hosted more than 5 million tourists last year alone, the popularity of homes being bought and built in the area to be rented for vacations has left many city councils with mostly upset residents.
Fred Resch, assistant planner and code enforcement for Hurricane City, told St. George News that the city started using computer software that tracks short-term rental listings on websites such as Airbnb and Vrbo.
