Post by High Priestess on Jul 2, 2016 0:18:10 GMT
The city of Laguna Beach, CA is having talks about short term rental regulations. See here:
lagunabeachcity.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=&clip_id=508&meta_id=37811
fast forward to 2 hours in point 21
lagunabeachcity.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=&clip_id=552&meta_id=40369
fast forward to 2 hours onto point 9.
Documents here:
lagunabeachcity.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=&clip_id=508&meta_id=37812
I watched part of the first video. THis city is doing things quite differently from other cities. They are starting out with a moratorium on all short term rentals. Then they hired a code enforcement officer and budgeted $90k just to have their code enforcement officer work on (eg shut down ) the 200 existing STR AIrbnb listings in their city. Then, when they do permit STRs in their city, they will only permit them in commercial zones. Which pretty much means that no Airbnb hosts would be able to do STRs -- as most people - duh -- don't live in commercial districts. STRs would be prohibited in residential zones.
As well, I think Laguna Beach is in for a wake-up call. They plan to have in their regulations to require listing platforms like Airbnb to issue quarterly reports to the city giving information about hosts -- their address, how many nights they booked each month, and how much income they made. They want to fine hosting platforms which don't do this. Airbnb is not going to do that, and they won't pay the fines. Instead, they will sue Laguna Beach just like they have sued San Francisco. Hopefully withe the SF case a precedent will be set which helps cities see that they cannot force the listing platform to provide them private information on its customers, remove listings or operate its business in any particular way that they would like.
lagunabeachcity.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=&clip_id=508&meta_id=37811
fast forward to 2 hours in point 21
lagunabeachcity.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=&clip_id=552&meta_id=40369
fast forward to 2 hours onto point 9.
Documents here:
lagunabeachcity.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=&clip_id=508&meta_id=37812
I watched part of the first video. THis city is doing things quite differently from other cities. They are starting out with a moratorium on all short term rentals. Then they hired a code enforcement officer and budgeted $90k just to have their code enforcement officer work on (eg shut down ) the 200 existing STR AIrbnb listings in their city. Then, when they do permit STRs in their city, they will only permit them in commercial zones. Which pretty much means that no Airbnb hosts would be able to do STRs -- as most people - duh -- don't live in commercial districts. STRs would be prohibited in residential zones.
As well, I think Laguna Beach is in for a wake-up call. They plan to have in their regulations to require listing platforms like Airbnb to issue quarterly reports to the city giving information about hosts -- their address, how many nights they booked each month, and how much income they made. They want to fine hosting platforms which don't do this. Airbnb is not going to do that, and they won't pay the fines. Instead, they will sue Laguna Beach just like they have sued San Francisco. Hopefully withe the SF case a precedent will be set which helps cities see that they cannot force the listing platform to provide them private information on its customers, remove listings or operate its business in any particular way that they would like.