“A lot of people are extremely upset,” Carroll said. She said the neighborhood should have been consulted about a change in use that she said will remove people invested in the Old City community. The city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections is responsible for enforcing the limit on rental days - a challenge for a resource-strapped regulatory agency already struggling to keep up with demands for building inspectors and safety enforcement officers.Ĭheryl Carroll lives in a condo adjacent to the soon-to-be lodge. Like many other cities, Philadelphia has found its 90-day restriction difficult to enforce. The startup’s model made it relatively seamless for property owners to treat residences as a kind of indie hotel open for bookings. cities have taken as local officials struggle to keep up with a fast-growing market most didn’t see coming before Airbnb hit the scene in 2008 and ignited a trend. Philadelphia followed the legal route many other U.S. But in many other parts of the city, neighbors complain that lodging units are operating illegally for more than 90 days in zoning districts that don’t allow for hotel uses. In the case of 509 Vine St., the property is zoned CMX-3, an extremely permissive zoning category that allows for visitor accommodations. Those that do must be treated as “visitor accommodations,” like any other more heavily regulated hotel.
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Philadelphia legalized short-term rentals under a 2015 law that gave property owners the green light to rent out residences, with the caveat that rentals of full residential units can’t exceed 90 days per year.
Inappropriate is one way to describe a situation some city employees and lawyers see as a legal gray area. “There’s been a lot of interest in using multifamily dwelling structures for short-term lodging, which is not appropriate under the code,” said Ron Patterson, longtime zoning and land-use attorney in Philadelphia. Most of these occupy prime real estate in Center City and the tourist-friendly neighborhoods immediately adjacent, but as the trend spreads farther afield so do new questions of legality, observers say. This is the latest in a string of similar conversions by companies such as StayAlfred, Sonder Corp, and Lyric Hospitality, which the Philadelphia Inquirer estimates have set aside upwards of 1,300 units in Philadelphia for short-term rental use. Residents said that the building had suffered several fires and that Sablosky had reportedly attempted to sell the property in the past.Ī call to Stonehenge Advisors, where Sablosky works, was not immediately returned on Wednesday. 1, with most tenants asked to vacate the premises by October.
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