The calls are growing louder for city council to tighten the rules governing short-term accommodations (STA’s), including those advertised on websites like Airbnb and Vrbo, after students arrived by the busload at a rented house in the Masonville neighbourhood.
Several neighbours say it’s the last straw.
Video posted on social media showed a long line of young women waiting to enter the house at 167 Sunnyside Dr. for what neighbours said was a sorority event.
Photographs taken by neighbour Marion Warren show school buses stopped in front of the house transporting women to the residential street.
“This weekend was horrific!” said Warren who lives a few doors away. “School bus loads of young females were being dropped off and apparently were being interviewed in this house for a sorority.”
Warren said neighbours have been complaining for years about various groups renting the house for short stays.
There’s also a pool in the backyard,” she explained. “And of …