{"id":11327,"date":"2024-06-24T17:18:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11327"},"modified":"2024-06-24T18:05:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:05:51","slug":"white-v-village-of-sister-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11327","title":{"rendered":"White v. Village of Sister Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/will-law.org\/white-v-village-of-sister-bay\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Case Name: <\/strong>White v. Village of Sister Bay<\/span><\/p>\n

Type of Case: <\/strong>Preserving Democracy Project\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Court:<\/strong> Door County Circuit Court<\/span><\/p>\n

Filed On:\u00a0<\/strong>June 20th, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n

Current Status: <\/strong>Our temporary injunction was granted and there is a hearing set for June 26th.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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DOOR COUNTY VILLAGE CUTTING SHORT TERM RENTING OPTIONS AHEAD OF THE SUMMER<\/h2>\n
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June 20, 2024<\/strong> | WILL and Attorney Bjorn Johnson have filed a lawsuit against the Village of Sister Bay on behalf of their clients for unlawfully refusing to issue a permit to rent their property.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Lawsuit: Wisconsin law gives homeowners the right to rent their home on a short-term basis. Wis. Stat. \u00a7 66.1014. Property owners also have a right under Wisconsin law to continue a non-conforming use after a change to local zoning laws, preventing municipalities from retroactively applying zoning changes to existing properties. Yet Sister Bay has taken the position that, by applying for a short-term-rental license, properties lose any vested non-conforming features of their property.<\/p>\n

Village Ordinance \u00a7 18.56(F) also gives property owners a right to appeal the denial of a short-term-rental license to the Village Board of Trustees. Defendants violated that plain legal right by: (1) failing to create an \u201cAppeal Form\u201d or adopt an \u201cappeal fee,\u201d which, per the ordinance, are required to appeal; (2) refusing to provide the Whites with any appeal form or inform them of the amount of the fee when they asked for it; and (3) rejecting their attempt to appeal for failing to pay a fee that doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

Background: WILL and Attorney Bjorn Johnson have filed a lawsuit against the Village of Sister Bay on behalf of their clients Captains Cottage LLC, a short-term rental in the Village for unlawfully refusing to issue Captains Cottage a permit to rent the property.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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