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I don't know how to answer your question because I don't know what it means to say something "should be OK".

If you're asking if I would prefer to live in an Oak Park where hotels were legal as opposed to where hotels were illegal, of course. If you're asking me if I would be on board with storming into an established community and rewriting their zoning codes over their objections, probably not, although there may be exceptions. If you're asking me if I would sleep well at night while operating a hotel in Oak Park, then I would probably want to meet the surrounding neighbors and decide for myself how much the activity would disturb them, look at the size of the easement, what the noise floor is like, and so on. If you're asking me if I as a homeowner would be annoyed at a neighboring hotel, it's possible, but I'm annoyed at a lot of things, most of which I seek no special right to change.

Those are four answers to your hypothetical, but I don't know whether one of them, or any of them, are the kind of answer you're looking for.



Sure. I think I was fixating on "length of tenancy" as an illegitimate focus for zoning regulation (the implication I took from your comment). But we're pretty far from the original topic of the thread now.




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