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My parents built a shed in their backyard, and a zoning law required that it "look like" their house.

If that's enforceable, how could a prohibition on short-term rentals not be? What am I missing here?

I think residential zoning regulations violate liberty more often than not - but it's obvious that there's precedent for all manner of loosely defined and overreaching - yet, enforceable - laws in this arena.



A prohibition on short term rentals is permissible. I even said that specifically. It's the other restrictions, like listing on AirBNB, that I said you probably could not do.




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