Talk is cheap, but we will see if Whitmire can backup his talk with action, other than putting more patrols in the area that is whinnying the loudest.
City leaders are trying to come up with a way to help residents who are fed up with wild parties at short-term rental properties across Houston.
It’s a problem that KHOU 11 News has been reporting on for weeks.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire said he contacted Police Chief Troy Finner to put a group together to help combat the issue. Whitmire also said he’s going to reach out to county constables and the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Source
Similar problems can be found that are not the result of short-term rentals; rental houses in neighborhoods can create the same issues, and homeowners who like to party can create the same problems. I bet that in many cases, police are being called to the same location tens if not hundreds of times. I have talked to a person who likes to party and likes loud music, and the police are called. Like he said, they don’t give us a ticket, and it takes them hours to get here, so who cares?
Where there are a lot of people, there are likely a lot of cars. Many of those cars will be illegally parked. The law allows them to be towed or towed.
If the music can be heard outside the property lines of where the noise is coming from, make it a violation where the owner or the leaseholder can be fined, and make it a substantial fine.
I hope that the Mayor will come up with a solution because that is a problem that affects many neighborhoods.
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