{"id":438,"date":"2017-07-04T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=438"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:49","slug":"weekly-rentals-violate-zoning-restriction-to-single-family-residences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2017\/07\/04\/weekly-rentals-violate-zoning-restriction-to-single-family-residences\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly rentals violate zoning restriction to &#8220;single-family residences&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Massachusetts Land Court has held that property used for weekly rentals violate the town zoning ordinance that limits the property to single-family residences.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massmunilaw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Hull-AirBB-Land-Court-Decision-5.25.17.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lytle v. Swiec,<\/a>&nbsp;2017 WL 2257702 (Mass. Land Ct. 2017). The case may have implications for AirBnb and other such short-term rental operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/hullma.virtualtownhall.net\/Public_Documents\/HullMA_BComm\/PlanningBoard\/Hull%20Zoning%20Bylaw.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Zoning By-Law of the Town of Hull,\u00a0<\/a>\u00a731-1.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/leaseholds\/\" rel=\"tag\">Leaseholds<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/real-estate-transactions\/\" rel=\"tag\">Real Estate Transactions<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/zoning\/\" rel=\"tag\">Zoning<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Land Court has held that property used for weekly rentals violate the town zoning ordinance that limits the property to single-family residences.&nbsp;Lytle v. Swiec,&nbsp;2017 WL 2257702 (Mass. Land Ct. 2017). The case may have implications for AirBnb and other such short-term rental operations. See\u00a0Zoning By-Law of the Town of Hull,\u00a0\u00a731-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,10,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leaseholds","category-real-estate-transactions","category-zoning"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}