Councillors have overruled a decision by the town’s licensing committee and imposed a year-long ban on three short-term rentals that were operating illegally.
“People (need to) understand that if they break the law, there’s a cost to that,” Coun. Norm Arsenault said in an interview Monday.
Arsenault spearheaded the harsher penalties on the illegal rentals after the licensing committee allowed two of the rentals to reapply for a denied licence on Nov. 1, 2021, and let the other one reapply in January 2022.
A staff report recommended that the applications be denied for a year and councillors agreed during a committee of the whole meeting last week.