Worried about a proliferation of short-term rentals and their impacts on neighborhoods and housing availability, the town of Port Royal has drawn a line in the sand.
Previously, there was no limit on the number of short-term vacation rentals advertised through platforms such as Airbnb and Vrbo.
But Town Council members unanimously approved a revised short-term rental ordinance Wednesday that restricts the number of short-term rentals to 6% of the total residential units within each of five new districts created across the town of 16,000…