So far behind that nobody actually lives here

A lot of cities suffer from this kind of local inferiority complex combined with cluelessness (to put it charitably) among the political leadership.  New Orleans is an especially bad example.

Researcher Jeffrey Goodman has looked into short-term rental ordinances across the U.S. He says when it comes to city regulation, there are typically three waves. First, there’s the original ordinance on the books, usually from the 1950s, that doesn’t work to accommodate any short-term rental arrangement, because it doesn’t include any enforcement mechanism. Next, cities usually try to work with the rental platforms.

“They were like ‘we’re hip, we’re cool,’” says Goodman of what he has observed of city governments’ attitude toward working with the companies in recent years. “And they worked with these companies not realizing that it’s regulatory capture. Not realizing that having the companies have a lot of influence in writing their own ordinance led to bad outcomes, and a lot of cities felt played.”

The third wave, according to Goodman, is currently unfolding in places like Anaheim and San Francisco, with cities requiring more of the companies and the latter responding with litigation.

New Orleans officials like to brag about their "first of a kind" short term rental regulations.  In truth, they're really just behind the curve again. What happens when we get to the "third wave" described above?  That will depend on who is running things at that time and what their attitude might be.