Hundreds of Topeka homes rented out on a short-term basis as “Airbnbs” could come to be affected by Monday’s Topeka Board of Zoning Appeals’ vote requiring the owners of one such facility to get a permit to continue to operate it, that couple’s property manager said.
Travis Maurath, property manager for Rental Management Solutions, said he found 291 listings Monday of properties in Topeka that were available for short-term rental at the website Airbnb.com.
Maurath told zoning appeals board members that if they were to require Don Phillippi and Candi Bryant to get a conditional use permit to continue to rent out the house they own at 229 S.W. Edgewood Ave. on a short-term basis — which they subsequently did — the owners of those 291 other properties should also have to do that.
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