#24656
Millie
Flatchatter

    The way this issue/suggestion has been explained to me by a prominent strata lawyer is that the flip-side of this is that 75% of owners can vote at a general meeting to introduce a by-law which will open the doors to Airbnb and their ilk.

    Where I live, this would happen in a flash and it is effectively saying that owners can vote to overturn the zoning on a property so that instead of it being a residential building it becomes a quasi hotel overnight.

    I bought an apartment in a building zoned permanent residential occupation only.  Where can one buy an apartment in NSW and be sure that in a week or a month or a year’s time it won’t turn into a hotel, with all the expense but minus the infrastructure?

    Where’s our community gone?

    The fact that the City of Sydney wants to limit the number of days one can short-term let is recognition in itself that short-term lets are fundamentally different to permanent residency.  And so, who is going to ‘police’ the maximum number of days regime?  Certainly not the City of Sydney!

    Lost for more words.