Transient lodging study

Neighbors First for Bywater board member supports the deferral and expects prior positions to carry forward unchanged.

Ten-year STR activist urged the commission to stick to the study and ban future commercial lodging in Marigny, Tremé, and Bywater, and to share any new data before the vote.

Vieux Carre entertainment district director warned against opening the French Quarter to commercial STRs and pledged to mobilize affected residents.

Hotel and tourism representatives support neighborhood associations and reducing — not increasing — transient lodging in the French Quarter.

Argued commercial short-term rental permits confer no vested property rights and cannot be grandfathered, and urged simple elimination of the CSTR category rather than a three-tiered system.

The Jane Place organizer described whole-home short-term rentals reopening in Mid-City and rising homelessness, urging careful housing policy.