When B.C. said last October that it was going to bring in some of the toughest restrictions on short-term vacation rentals in North America, the owners of a prominent Okanagan resort complex had a moment of panic.
The Predator Ridge Resort, built on a former ranch near Vernon, opened in 1991 building condos and houses that were aimed at sales to permanent residents. Nine years later, it started including short-term vacation-destined units, some of them large homes, some cottages, some units in a hotel-like building called The Lodge.
The City of Vernon had enacted a special zoning for the property that included these short-term rentals as a permitted use.
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