Editor,
State lawmakers complain about the Federal Government’s overreach in telling states what they may and may not do. Now our Arkansas state legislators are overreaching their boundaries by dictating the laws that our cities make to protect their citizens right to a safe and secure investment in their neighborhoods.
Big government in Little Rock wants to nullify cities’ carefully considered protections for neighborhoods from commercial encroachment. Act SB 197, if passed, would allow any home in any neighborhood anywhere in Arkansas to become an overnight rental.
This is not a mom-and-pop trying to raise a few bucks proposition. Out of town entrepreneurs often buy up homes to turn them into lucrative rental businesses.
The price of houses goes up, reselling your home will be more difficult with a rental next door, our scarce housing stock for hardworking families is diminished, and neighborhoods are denied permanent residents who vote and make our lives richer.
If you don’t speak up now that nice neighbor’s house next door could become a permanent weekend party house. Please contact our state senator and representative now and ask them to vote against Act SB 197 to preserve our property rights.
Senator Bryan King: bryan.king@senate.ar.gov (501) 682-5452
Representative Harlan Breaux: harlan.breaux@arkansashouse.org (479) 981-3170
Gwen Bennett