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Victoria business petitions to stop B.C.’s incoming short-term rental law

New regulations would effectively end the businesses ability to operate
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Angela Mason of Amala Vacation Rental Solutions Ltd. in the ‘Air Lobby’ storefront her business operates on Pandora Avenue. Amala may not be able to continue most of its operations when the new short-term rental regulations come into force. (Mark Page/News Staff)

A Victoria business that provides hosting services for short-term rentals has signed on to be the representative party in a legal petition seeking to invalidate some of the provisions in the incoming provincewide restrictions on the units.

“As it stands right now, if no changes are made, it completely decimates us,” Angela Mason, of Amala Rental Solutions Ltd., said of the impact the new law will have on her business when it goes into effect on May 1.

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