Short-Term Rentals To Be Looked At By Point Beach Council

POINT PLEASANT BEACH, NJ – Residents of Point Pleasant Beach voiced their concerns to the borough council about the growing number of short-term rentals during the most recent council meeting.

John Dixon, a formel council member, who resides on Niblick Street, spoke during the public portion of the meeting about how the vast majority of the houses surrounding him were house being used for short-term rentals, bringing in people who are only in town for a good time and don’t care about the city or the people that live in it.

“We’re being flooded with these Airbnbs and vacation rentals by owners. It’s changed the whole atmosphere,” Dixon said during the meeting.

“These Airbnbs are not one-week rentals, two-week rentals a lot of them are three days at a time, four days at a time, and it’s a constant revolving door of people coming into the neighborhood. They’re here to have a good time, they’re loud, and they don’t care how the neighbors feel about it.”

Mayor Paul Kanitra agreed with Dixon’s sentiment, saying that the borough is looking into dealing with these short-term rentals. If there is enough call for it, then an ordinance limiting short-term rentals will be considered.

“We (the council) asked the (Police) Chief before the summer to make sure that we were tracking calls to different houses if they were short-term rentals or full-time homes because that was one of the things that we wanted to look at was are the short term rental houses disproportionately having problems versus full-times houses,” Kanitra said.