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JimmyT
Your suggestion is spot on. We have more and more sex workers setting up shop and this would cover their activities as well those sneaky little individual Airbnbs which are creeping in:
The New South Wales was case law also suggested section 49(3) should not be read literally and does permit some scope to regulate leasing. However, it does suggest that transactions be prohibited on the basis of some reasonable criteria, as opposed to being prohibited outright. For example, an outright ban on short-term letting might be invalid, while a by-law prohibiting a transaction lacking requisite development consent or requiring compliance with behaviour/amenity standards might not.
Our development approval is crystal clear on what is permitted. All other types of letting obviously fall outside the the requirements of the DA. (Only problem is: those who control our building are the old short-term letting cohort and they block everything put to them.)