Also if you are in a neighborhood, some HOAs ban AirBNBs. 

You should ban all male investors and agents from your meeting, just no choice.So no lesbians or men, any others you want to lump together?

The others are correct: your only "out" is if there is a City Ordinance banning them (which I believe is illegal but it shifts liability to the City and not you) or if your insurance intends to increase your rates or cancel your coverage.

Insurance actuaries have studied risk and most companies ban all forms of this dog, because real statistics say it is not worth the insurance risk. 

There is a chance he is absolutely banned by law of raising rents to market rate.

Claims data can concretely answer that question pretty easy, hence the "breed ban" seen by many insurance carriers.      

I would love to ban smoking in my units but I don't have the man power to police this and more than half my tenants smoke.

Wow. Just saw the news. Not good for agents and landlords. Will the new interpretation get implemented? Do you think it will get reversed? Thoughts?

The only pro to launching a STR in SB county that comes to mind is that currently, I think we're reasonably safe from STRs being banned completely here, due to the fact that there aren't really enough hotels here to accommodate the 3 million annual visitors that come to the JT National Park.

This article explores this, especially how local government continues to take even after the federal backs off. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/09/09/supreme-court-ended-eviction-ban-not-fight-against-evictions/The cycle generally goes like this:1.