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Show Planners Recommend Time Share Ordinance Planning Commissioners agreed last Wednesday to . recommend the City Council's adoption of an ordinance now in effect in Palm Springs, Calif, calling for a four-month moratorium on new condominium time share projects. City Planner Bill Ligety said the moratorium will give the City time to adequately address the problems of time share sales operations and to eventually draft an ordinance covering the practice. Ligety addes the moratorium, if adopted by the City Council, will not effect already approved projects but only new time share proposals. According to the City Planner, the city currently has no ordinance governing time share units which could lead to single family homes in residential neighborhoods being sold on a multiple ownership basis. "I'm not opposed to time share in commercial or high density zones" said Ligety, "but I don't think they belong in residential neighborhoods". Ligety would like to see an eventual time share ordinance include a definition of time share units, a list of zones where they will be permitted, and some guidelines governing multiple ownership sales practices. City Manager Arlene Loble said she thought the moratorium may be a bit "excessive". Loble' thought the problem cold possibly be addressed by defining time share units as nightly rentals and prohibiting them in residential zones. |