The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a temporary moratorium on new permits for vacation rental properties to address a backlog of more than 200 applications and develop a comprehensive regulation package for vacation rentals. (Photo courtesy Sonoma Airbnb)

Sonoma County will not approve new vacation rental applications for roughly the next six weeks after the county Board of Supervisors approved a temporary moratorium Tuesday on processing new permits.

The moratorium, going into effect immediately as an urgency ordinance, will last for 45 days and allow county permitting officials to address a backlog of more than 200 applications and develop a comprehensive ordinance regulating vacation rentals, which are reserved via platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo.

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Eli covers public health, transportation and state politics for the Bay City News Foundation, serves as the main editor of the Public Health and COVID-19 Information Hub and assists with Local News Matters' social media strategy. He has also previously covered local politics in San Diego County as well as college and professional sports across the Bay Area.

Katy St. Clair got her start in journalism by working in the classifieds department at the East Bay Express during the height of alt weeklies, then sweet talked her way into becoming staff writer, submissions editor, and music editor. She has been a columnist in the East Bay Express, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner. Starting in 2015, she begrudgingly scaled the inverted pyramid at dailies such as the Vallejo Times-Herald, The Vacaville Reporter, and the Daily Republic. She has her own independent news site and blog that covers the delightfully dysfunctional town of Vallejo, California, where she also collaborates with the investigative team at Open Vallejo. A passionate advocate for people with developmental disabilities, she serves on both the Board of the Arc of Solano and the Arc of California. She lives in Vallejo.