Landing Development Corp. v. City of Myrtle Beach

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• the availability of services to short-term tenants, which is an attribute of a motel, does not convert individually owned condominium units into a \motel\ as defined in the zoning ordinances
• “To allow the city to repudiate its former interpretation of permissible rentals and the statements of its zoning director, based upon a re-assessment of the meaning of an undefined term in the ordinance!,] would be unconscionable.”
• short-term rentals were permitted even though the ordinance required “permanent occupancy” because “no time limit is fixed in the zoning ordinance as to the length of rental property or any minimal rental period for permissible use within any zoning district.”
• short-term rentals were permitted even though the ordinance required \permanent occupancy\ because \no time limit is fixed in the zoning ordinance as to the length of rental property or any minimal rental period for permissible use within any zoning district.\

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