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Home My Public Portal AboutPublic Comment Geoffrey Greig Darrah Johnston From: Town of Truckee, CA <webmaster@townoftruckee.com> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2020 3:26 PM To: Truckee; Hilary Hobbs Subject: *NEW SUBMISSION* Public Comment Form for Short-Term Vacation Rental Ordinance and Permit Program Public Comment Form for Short-Term Vacation Rental Ordinance and Permit Program Submission#: 512661 IP Address: 47.208.184.131 Submission Date: 08/28/2020 3:26 Survey Time: 49 seconds You have a new online form submission. Note: all answers displaying"*****" are marked as sensitive and must be viewed after your login. Name Geoffrey Greig Email geoffbiz@gmail.com Phone (optional) Public Comment see attachment lf your comment exceeds 2000 characters, please use the attachment function below to attach your comment in a separate document. Attachment G Greig comments Truckee STIR draft ordinance.rtf Please ensure that you enter your email address in the box below and click the SUBMIT button to receive a copy of your submitted responses for Public Comment. Thank you, Town of Truckee This is an automated message generated by the Vision Content Management SystemTM.Please do not reply directly to this email. 1 You have made no differentiation in all your operational standards (5.02.040) and prohibitions (5.02.050) between short-term rentals of entire homes and short-term rentals of an extra bedroom(s) where the owner lives in the residence,which is my situation. That is not the majority of STRs to be sure, but it is an important minority. So many restrictions of STRs in city after city after city exempt properties where the owner lives at the property. The City of South Lake Tahoe has an STIR ordinance that exempted STRs of extra bedrooms in an occupied residence. And while I've heard they are thinking of amending it to include occupied STRs, at least they can look and see what regulations should apply and what should not rather than the blanket"ALL OF THEM!" in your draft ordinance. You state that the ordinance is being developed "to address community nuisance and safety issues associated with short-term rentals, such as noise,trash, and parking." I would wager that these issues do not exist when the property owner is in the house. The local contact to quickly ask questions and deal with problems is right there! We don't even take a potential long-term rental property off the market which is also a well-founded gripe about STRs. How many incidents have there been over the years in the entirety of Truckee due to a resident homeowner renting out a bedroom or two? If the Town cannot name more than a couple,then I don't see why we should be financially punished by these regulations. This is my residence- I control trash, noise, parking in the driveway, etc. whether the people staying in extra bedrooms are paying for the privelege or not(like friends/family). It is ridiculous for me to have to buy a bear box(E) when I'm the one who puts out the trash weekly. It is ridiculous for me to be unable to rent for just one night(G)when I am here in the house for that night. It is ridiculous for me to not have my barbeque on the deck outside my house (D)just because a guest is staying in an extra bedroom and is going out to dinner after skiing. And it is ridiculous for me to have to put in extra smoke alarms (G),fire extinguishers (1), CO monitors (H), or get inspections (L) because someone is paying for the use of a bedroom rather than having a non-paying family member or friend staying with me. And by the way,you'd be enacting all these costly regulations for folks that have not been able to make ANY income on their STIR for more than 5 months- it is still not allowed to rent a bedroom in an occupied house per California COVID-19 orders. Please revise your proposed ordinance to reflect "that one size does not fit all." And if you cannot identify significant previous incidents where extra bedroom STRs have ever caused these types of issues, please exempt them entirely from this ordinance. Thank you.