Zoning, Land Use
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Case Details
Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a township's ban on short-term, web-based rentals (like Airbnb or VRBO), clarifying that zoning ordinances defining "family" as a "single housekeeping unit" prohibit such transient uses in residential districts.
Additional Notes
A unanimous Supreme Court reversed the Commonwealth Court and held that the “purely transient use of a house is not a permitted use in a residential zoning district limiting use to single-family homes by a ‘single housekeeping unit,'” where the property owner admitted he purchased the property to use exclusively for short-term rentals.