{"id":3213,"date":"2019-07-16T04:14:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T08:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2019-07-16T04:14:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T08:14:21","slug":"officials-daily-pool-rentals-violate-toms-river-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2019\/07\/officials-daily-pool-rentals-violate-toms-river-ordinance\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials: Daily Pool Rentals Violate Toms River Ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A bus parked near a home in Toms River where a pool had been rented. (Photo: Facebook)<\/p><\/div>\n

A controversy that began after video posted online showed two busloads of people pulling up to rent a pool for daily use in a residential neighborhood may not be a controversy at all.<\/p>\n

Officials say the renting of pools is illegal in Toms River \u2013 except, of course, in the case where a person rents an entire home and grants access to its pool. A new website \u201cSwimply,\u201d acts as a conduit between pool owners and would-be swimmers. The site allows homeowners to put photos of their pools online and offer them for rent between certain hours and days of the week. Toms River\u2019s municipal ordinances, however, prohibit the lease of pools.<\/p>\n

While pool rentals may sound benign, they can be abused if large crowds inundate a small street, some township residents say. The conversation gained traction after a resident posted a video from her street on Facebook, showing two full-size charter buses parked in front of a residential home whose pool was apparently being rented for the day.<\/p>\n

Purportedly, the practice of pool rentals has become popular in neighboring Lakewood\u2019s Orthodox Jewish community and is more common there, leading to concern that pool rentals, though illegal in Toms River, could proliferate locally. Another photo posted online showed a pool safety sign advising swimmers to call the number of Lakewood Hatzollah<\/a> \u2013 an Orthodox-run ambulance service \u2013 in an emergency instead of 911, which elicited additional concern from some online commenters.<\/p>\n

Toms River bars the rental of pools under its short-term rental ordinance, last revised in 2017 to address Airbnb properties. That ordinance bans the \u201crental of amenities\u201d only.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lease or rental, for any purpose, of any amenity, feature, accessory, or appurtenance to or associated with a dwelling is prohibited,\u201d the ordinance states.<\/p>\n

The same ordinance imposes an additional violation on anyone who advertises, including online, any rental that is not compliant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re aware of it,\u201d Township Administrator Don Guardian said, of Swimply and pool rental violations in town. \u201cYou can\u2019t rent out your pool, your shed, anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guardian said residents should call the township\u2019s Code Enforcement division<\/a> (732-341-1000) to report illegal pool rentals, including if they are being advertised in advance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll send out code enforcement \u2013 give us the date and we\u2019ll be there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On Monday night, Shorebeat searched the Swimply site for pool rentals in Toms River this Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. No pools turned up in Toms River. Locally, there were six available in Lakewood, one in Jackson and one in Brick.<\/p>\n

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A controversy that began after video posted online showed two busloads of people pulling up to rent a pool for daily use in a residential neighborhood may not be a controversy at all. Officials say the renting of pools is illegal in Toms River \u2013 except, of course, in the case where a person rents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[861,11],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","tag-pool-rentals","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-16-at-4.07.23-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}