Vacation rental owners are asking a judge to remove a referendum from the May ballot that, if approved by voters, would make vacation rentals in nearly all of unincorporated Clatsop County illegal.
In a lawsuit filed in Circuit Court this week, Everyone For The North Oregon Coast, which was formed last year to support the rights of vacation rental owners, argues the referendum is unlawful.
Voters could weigh in on a county vacation rental dispute in May.
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