Victoria city council Thursday tightened its bylaw casing "brief lodging" in order to renovate an attack on inhabited properties being criminally borrowed to vacationers.

Andrew Dolan, the city's bylaw enforcement officer, said the new description of transient housing will facilitate bylaw officers to restart an enforcement crusade that stumbled in January when lawyers said the city's description of brief lodging was indistinct.

The practice of homes and condominiums being worn as rentals when they're not zoned for that point is "a huge increase industry in B.C. and not now a Victoria problem," Dolan said.

He also alleged the municipality gets complaints from the hotel business which sees the multimillion-dollar holiday rental commerce nibble absent at bookings, and as of condo owners who acquire a comfort residence to live in only to locate the unit crossways the hall is borrowed out as a lodge room.