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Home My Public Portal AboutPublic Comment Jack Kashtan Darrah Johnston From: Town of Truckee, CA <webmaster@townoftruckee.com> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2020 5:19 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#: 512783 IP Address: 75.111.74.203 Submission Date: 08/28/2020 5:18 Survey Time: 3 minutes, 35 seconds You have a new online form submission. Note: all answers displaying"*****" are marked as sensitive and must be viewed after your login. Name Jack Kashtan Email jkashtan50@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 comments on STIR ordinance pdf.pdf 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 Comments on the draft STR ordinance 1) The problems associated with STR's are also common with winter ski leases and other vacation and seasonal rentals. Sections 5.02.040 all sections, 5.02.050 B-F, and 5.0.060 all sections should apply at all times for all properties registered as STR's, regardless of the length of stay of the party violating the provisions of this ordinance. 2) 5.02.040C Parking Add "neighboring properties" to the list of places STIR rental cars may not be parked. Snow removal is required for all properties rented between November 1 and April 30. Snow must be stored on the property of the STIR or hauled off. Depositing snow on neighboring properties is prohibited. [To prevent renters from parking in neighbors plowed spaces and other prohibited parking areas. At Donner Lake parking at the sewage lift stations is popular.] 3) 5.02.040.E The garbage container requirements are inadequate. "Cans" should be specified as 30 gallon. The number and size of cans and bear boxes should depend on maximum occupancy. The bear box requirement should take effect April 1 2021. 4) 5.02.040F Interior posting. Should include instructions as to what goes into bear boxes, blue containers and green containers, and a warning that bears are active all year long. [We have a lot of problems with renters putting garbage in the blue and green rolling containers.] 5) 5.02.050 [Prohibited] [add] H. Depositing garbage, recyclables, ashes, cigarette butts, animal excrement, snow, or any other discarded materials on the grounds of neighboring properties or in bear boxes or other containers belonging to neighbors. 6) 5.02.060 E "No duty to enforce" is not acceptable. What's the point of the ordinance if enforcement is discretionary? Investigation of all complaints to determine validity should be required, and appropriate action as outlined in the ordinance should be mandatory for all complaints determined to be valid. Code enforcement staff should be increased if necessary to investigate all complaints. While it may seem that some of the measures I have added are trivial or unnecessary, they are the result of infringements on our peace and our property we have suffered repeatedly over many years. Anyone who lives next to a full time vacation rental can testify that none of the measures I have proposed are trivial in the least.