Empire’s short-term rental saga continues

Empire will be continuing the great short-term rental debate at its regular meeting Tuesday after continued sparring over the topic at the workshop meeting Thursday.

The village will make a motion at the regular meeting on whether to continue moving forward with a short-term registration or regulation ordinance that would be motioned to seek an attorney’s opinion from Mika Meyers Law Firm based out of Grand Rapids, if passed.

Over the past month, Empire’s short-term rental committee of March Dye, Meg Walton, Carrie Ford, and Bob Chase tried to come to an agreement on an ordinance, and general data about short-term rentals in Empire.