Richmond can devise new rules and regulations all it wants, but it has a track record of poorly enforcing it's bylaws.

You only have to look at the complete lack of oversight and enforcement re  buildings and operations on ALR land to see that. 

So what is Richmond proposing now? That mini hotel operators get a business licence and adhere to rules and regulations, and then they can legally operate? Well they are illegally operating now because Richmond chooses not to enforce existing bylaws. So what is the difference? Just another set of bylaws that are walked all over. 

Richmond has no plans to actually regulate anything, and everyone  running a cash only hotel on farmland, or dividing their house into ten units knows it.