The party continues to rage, but the city needs more time to come up with a long-term answer.

Burlington has pledged to deal with a notorious Lakeshore Road party house but said a licensing regimen for short-term rentals is still a longways off. The calls for greater regulation of services like Airbnb have grown within the city as some residences are run more like banquet halls, drawing enormous crowds and loud parties.

Mary Alice St. James, representing the Burlington Active Community Teamwork (ACT) community association, played a recording at a council meeting of a raucous sounding recent party at a notorious Airbnb on Lakeshore.

“Just as the ACT community has been ignored for 18 debilitating months, they’ve been very stressed due to a rogue Airbnb. This is despite having council’s mandate from the Oct. 8 planning and development meeting. Burlington does require immediate action — this is obvious,” said St. James.

Councillors have expressed strong support for greater regulation, recently pledging both long-term and immediate action on the issue.

Short-term accommodations acting as party houses for everything from high school graduations to wedding receptions have become a growing concern in municipalities across the country. Bylaws have been used in other jurisdictions that treat the homes more like convention halls, requiring plans for things like fire safety.

Heather MacDonald, Burlington’s executive director of community planning regulation, said rolling out licensing for these accommodations is fairly complicated.

“It’s not a straight forward issue to tackle," said MacDonald. "We will be able to learn from the experiences of other municipalities, and many of them are still working through the process of bringing in a licensing regimen.”

Oakville and Mississauga have implemented regulations on short-term rentals. Toronto is currently awaiting a provincial tribunal to determine if they can go ahead with regulations.

With no specific rules in Burlington, local officials can only respond to the issue with things like noise violations. Some residents claim their calls about that have been mostly ignored.