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Thanks to what an alderman described as an procedural error, short-term stays from services like Airbnb are now illegal in the city of Kenosha — for the next few days, anyway.

Ald. David Bogdala, the sponsor of an ordinance that was intended to address sex offender housing, said the City Council mistakenly voted to approve an earlier version of the ordinance that lacked an exemption for Airbnb and its counterparts.

He said an updated version will go up for a vote at Monday night’s council meeting.

Until a reconsideration vote is held, short-term rentals through services like Airbnb, an online marketplace that enables people to list, find and rent vacation homes for a processing fee, are prohibited in city limits.

The ordinance approved last week prohibits third-party rentals of less than seven days, making short-term stays from services like Airbnb illegal, said Deputy City Attorney Matthew Knight.

Bogdala said this was not his intent. Rather, the ordinance stems from an effort to protect the city from the kind of problems Wheatland has experienced this summer, with the Department of Corrections leasing a home and planning to place a sex offender there.