Lewes keeps setting the standard for vacation rentals

The short-term rental criterion of 119 days or less will now be followed by the city's short-term rental ad hoc committee. Officials anticipate that the ultimate threshold for what constitutes a short-term rental will be lower, but Commissioner Winnie Kee referenced a case in which plaintiffs successfully sued the Town of Fenwick Island and used the Delaware code's 120-day barrier as justification.