The Pinehurst Hot Mess: Kiss your ban GOODBYE.
Somebody better slip those mean ol’ downtown Yankees their medication a wee bit earlier than usual. Some state senators – including our own Tom McInnis – are seeking to reverse some of their recent mischief.
Those folks, along with the Strickland-Pizzella-Hogeman cabal on the village council, have tied Pinehurst up in knots and turmoil for over a year regarding VRBOs and AirBnBs in our fair village.
The downtown crowd and their council cabal has slandered local rental property owners up-and-down, accusing them of everything from running drug dens to facilitating the local litter problem to even fueling a crime wave. A crime wave. In Pinehurst. *Um, yeah.*
Some restrictions got rammed through the village council – over the vehement objections of the village planning board. It soon became apparent the restrictions screwed over The Country Club of North Carolina. Restrictions supporter John Strickland – also a CCNC member – apparently started feeling some discomfort during his visits to the clubhouse.
The Strickland-Pizzella-Hogeman cabal is in the midst of trying to create an exception to the vacation rental ban that would protect CCNC’s long-standing rental program.
However, this latest bill in the Senate may make all of this local fuss over grandfathering 
and banning and carve-outs a moot point. Senate Bill 667 was filed today in Raleigh by GOP senators Tim Moffitt, Bobby Hanig, and Tom McInnis.
To my educated eyes, the bill appears to slap down restrictions on vacation rentals statewide. It would also appear to knock down the recently-approved Pinehurst restrictions pushed by The Friday Group and their three-member cabal on the council.
Seems pretty crystal clear to me. Here’s some info on WHAT municipal governments CAN do:
Sounds pretty reasonable. It’s too bad we have to look to Raleigh for some reason and sanity on pretty basic issues.
This all seems more like a punishment to all residential communities in North Carolina than a practical list of regulations that would both secure traditional residential living in a community while providing communities with the power and right to zone for commercial residential uses. What this says is NO residential neighborhood in any town or city in North Carolina is protected from the greed of investors and/or pushy, greedy real estate sellers.
North Carolina already embraces policies that will forever limit the quality of development and the quality of living throughout the state. For the most part, individual land owners and developers control the quality and land use categories as well as density of housing per acre, often at the expense of the general population.
What will North Carolina become in the future? What will Moore County look like in the future? Myrtle Beach? Now is the time to think ahead.
I would think our regulators could find a fair percentage of rental units/residential units for towns to abide by.
Look what the Mount Laurel II Decision did in New Jersey for low income housing requirements, and the options for developers and community officials.
All your saying is I have mine screw you.
People have the right to do what they want with there property as long as they do
not infringe on there neighbors and there are plenty of laws on books to protect them,
Oh I get it, Steve. We probably don’t need stop signs, traffic lights, zoning and planning, and master plans either.
Just everyone have it their way.
No one said anything about that all I said is you have right to use your property and follow what laws are on the books. That’s what people like you do is mix apples with oranges to make your BS point . We have so many laws now that no one can possibly follow them all. All we can do is get up work hard and do the best we can to do the write thing. This is a great place to live with great people ( in spite of people like you telling everyone what to do) and its no wonder other people want to visit.
Well this is a “new age” of shedding traditions and standards on almost a daily basis. Men can become women, only need one public bathroom for all, and residential homes can operate as motels in North Carolina. Be damned if I would spend much money for a family home to find absolute strangers “checking in” next door on a weekly basis. I understand that some HOA’s are setting standards and agreements for the homes in their associations. It will be interesting to watch how this all plays out.