Niagara Gazette – Councilwoman at center of uproar over Airbnb website

May 8, 2016
Niagara Falls City Councilwoman Kristen Grandinetti has been offering two rooms in her Orchard Parkway home on the website Airbnb for about a year. Last week, her account became the subject of a local uproar not unlike the digital platform’s reception nationally and abroad. Grandinetti subsequently received a letter from Acting Building Commissioner Louis Fontana that mandated her compliance with local residential codes for operating a “bed and breakfast.”…
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