Short-term rentals, also known as STRs, including popular services like Airbnb, VRBO, or Flipkey, have gained significant popularity in Wichita in recent years. However, many small business owners operating these STRs have been doing so illegally.
The Wichita Animal Control Advisory board passed a 14-point recommendation that includes cat licenses, mandatory microchipping and a free ride home for licensed pets on the loose.
How is your group doing? In an attempt to better support our membership, WIN is asking members to take a moment to share with us the impact the pandemic has had on them.
Formally organized in 1993, WIN is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization serving the various individuals, businesses, and neighborhood associations throughout the City of Wichita. From cultivating community gardens in food deserts to supporting a neighborhood’s fight against intrusive construction, WIN strives to be a champion for, and ally to, its members.
Over the years, WIN and members of its Board have won many community awards, including the national 2012 Multi Neighborhood Award for our biannual Neighborhood University. WIN also prides itself on supporting the citizens of the North End Riverview Neighborhood Association as they successfully campaigned against unwanted telecommunications rezoning and on working with the City to strengthen existing vicious dog response plans.
WIN’s current mission statement is to “provide education, resources and an effective voice to and for current and potential members on quality of life issues in Wichita and Sedgwick County.”