Thanks, everyone, for quick feedback and some good ideas. The Bowling Green Planning and Zoning Commission offers two different Conditional Use Permits. One is for Short Term Rental, meaning that no owner or representative is present when guests are there. The other is for Bed and Breakfast, including real BnB's that serve breakfast and Airbnb's that don't. Our application is for the second type, Bed and Breakfast without the breakfast. My neighborhood association was in an uproar about an application for a Short Term Rental permit. They are associating mine with that one and some who just don't want any BnB of any kind are mounting a campaign of disinformation to keep the neighbors alarmed about our Airbnb.
I can answer almost all of their arguments, but here is the killer: We don't want our property value to go down. A variant of that is "We didn't spend a lot of money to move into the kind of neighborhood that has a business operating in it. What next? A beauty shop in the home? Automotive repair? etc." That's why I called it a snobbery problem.
Does anyone have any data or know of any data that suggests that property values don't go down just because an Airbnb operates quietly in the neighborhood?