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Home My Public Portal AboutPublic Comment Larry Wichter Darrah Johnston From: Town of Truckee, CA <webmaster@townoftruckee.com> Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2020 12:38 AM 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#: 526839 IP Address: 47.208.183.68 Submission Date: 09/06/2020 12:38 Survey Time: 54 seconds You have a new online form submission. Note: all answers displaying"*****"are marked as sensitive and must be viewed after your login. Name Larry Wichter Email larrywichter@gmail.com Phone (optional) Public Comment I have owned my house in Tahoe Donner since Nov. 1997, using it as a family vacation home until 2013,when I converted the house to a STIR using VRBO,AirBNB. In 2019 1 stopped renting the house and made it my primary residence.The point being, I have seen all sides of this issue. I think the Town of Truckee and it's citizens, need to make a clear decision to all STIR or not. If STRs are to be allowed,then strict rules are needed to deal with the issues raised in the proposal. Requiring STIR to have a local resident is not fair. Requiring 1 hour phone response 24 hours a day,and 3 hour in person response is fair and doable. I have driven up from Bay Area many times to deal with renter issues. It can be done. Plus having a service to respond faster works as well (not a full management company).The real solution here,if STRs are to be allowed,is enforcement. High penalties with strict adherence is needed so that the violators of the rules pay for their lack of proper management and those STIR owners who follow the rules are allowed the privilege to operate. Is the City of Truckee prepared to actually enforce the rules? I vote yes to strick governance of STRs if the City of Truckee does proper enforcement.One final concern I have is about repeated false alarms. If a neighbor of a STIR makes multiple complaints that turn out to be false,such as noise, parking, lights,etc.,then I would have that neighbor black listed so that their nusance complaints are ignored by the City.Without this,too much power is given to a out of control neighbor who has nothing to loose by make false nusance complaints.As for COVID, I suggest we require that guests of a STIR must be from the same cohabitation residence,otherwise we are encouraging mixed groups to share their germs and spread the virus to our town.Once COVID is under control (which likely will be 1 to 2 years),this rule can be rolled back. lf your comment exceeds 2000 characters, please use the attachment function below to attach your comment in a separate document. Attachment 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. 1 Thank you, Town of Truckee This is an automated message generated by the Vision Content Management System'"".Please do not reply directly to this email. 2