CVB president Stacey Dickson predicts big revenue when those cottage owners get a business license and generate money for marketing.
" We're going to really capitalize on the lake as a recreational resource," Dickson said. "It's a game changer for Hall County as a destination."
Lakeside property owner Steve Guello has no problem with the idea, but there is a problem with Corps of Engineers regulations if the business license applies to the lakeside property.
"They're going to pull your dock permit because you can't have a business or a commercial property and have a dock permit," Guello said.
Guello said the county needs to find a way to issue the license without making the property commercial.
Right now the county code requires a minimum 30-day rental. Commission Chairman Tom Oliver says he wants more information before the Commission acts on a code change to permit the reduced vacation cottage district rentals.
"If we have a chance to market Hall County as a vacation cottage destination then we've got to have a system that allows us to do it," Oliver said.
The code amendment reducing the rental time period came up for first reading at last Thursday's commission meeting.
"They're going to pull your dock permit because you can't have a business or a commercial property and have a dock permit," lakeside property owner Steve Guello said.
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