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Losing our city to short-term rentals

by LYNN FLEMING/Guest Opinion
| February 28, 2026 1:00 AM

Watching and presenting to the Senate Business and Commerce Committee in Boise Capitol on Thursday was an exercise that saw citizens and voters get the shaft. 

The senators voted in favor of short-term rentals (STRs), allowing the takeover of our streets and homes with a free pass, silencing our Idaho cities. They stalled the existing, much-reduced Senate Bill 1263 to track where short-term rentals exist, license their use as they do for my home-based business, and ignore local life-safety measures we see in new or renovated homes. 

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