A downtown Appleton vacationer rooming home that was ordered to stop and desist operation as a result of code violations is constant to function till its attraction of the order could be heard, in line with metropolis workers.
The standing of Stateview Commons’ vacationer rooming home on the second flooring of 532 W. Faculty Ave. got here to mild in response to a query from Mayor Jake Woodford through the Jan. 14 Board of Well being assembly.
“This property is working successfully illegally as an Airbnb, as a short lived rooming home,” Woodford stated. “This short-term rooming home doesn’t meet our code necessities for all times security. So, it is vital to make word of that for the general public report.”
Appleton did not renew the 2025-2026 vacationer rooming home license for Keystone Futures LLC, doing enterprise as Stateview Commons. The town later issued a cease-and-desist order to ban Stateview Commons from working as a vacationer rooming home, also referred to as a short-term rental, Airbnb or Vrbo, till corrections have been made and the right approvals have been obtained.
Stateview Commons at 532 W. Faculty Ave. in Appleton now not has a sound license to function as a vacationer rooming home.
Robert Arthur, an lawyer for Keystone, appealed the nonrenewal and cease-and-desist order, ensuing within the scheduling of a Jan. 14 listening to earlier than the Board of Well being.
The listening to, although, was postponed on the request of Arthur, who stated he had “an unavoidable private {and professional} emergency.”
Assistant Metropolis Lawyer Darrin Glad stated he and Well being Officer Charles Sepers “considerably reluctantly” agreed to reschedule the listening to for Feb. 11.
The Appleton Well being Division created an environmental well being technician place in January 2025 to carry vacationer rooming homes into compliance with laws. In March, the property at 532 W. Faculty was decided to violate constructing and hearth codes.
The Well being Division defined to Keystone the modifications, together with the set up of a hearth sprinkler system, which might be required to attain compliance. The vacationer rooming home license for the property expired on June 30.
Regardless of the expiration, the property continued to function as a vacationer rooming home and not using a legitimate well being license, in line with a memorandum by Glad and Sepers.
On July 29, the Well being Division issued an order to stop and desist operation. Keystone appealed and proposed an interim security plan.
Within the attraction, Arthur stated Keystone acquired the property in October 2021, when the second flooring containing 4 dwelling items already had been working as a vacationer rooming home.
“My consumer was utterly stunned to find that the prior proprietor had not obtained correct overview and allowing when the second flooring was modified from residential to short-term rental items in 2019,” Arthur stated. “Keystone bought the constructing as a functioning enterprise, with the expectation that every one present use was correctly permitted. The lack of revenue from the short-term rental items will create a monetary hardship for Keystone.”
The events agreed to a number of postponements of the attraction listening to to discover a mutually acceptable path towards compliance and licensing.
On Sept. 18, Appleton proposed a conditional license settlement that, if executed, would have allowed continued operation as a vacationer rooming home whereas progress towards full compliance was demonstrated. No response was obtained, and no conditional license was issued.
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