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Home My Public Portal AboutPublic Comment Daniel Tester Darrah Johnston From: Town of Truckee, CA <webmaster@townoftruckee.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 3:56 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#: 530564 IP Address: 209.33.83.93 Submission Date: 09/08/2020 3:56 Survey Time: 3 minutes, 36 seconds You have a new online form submission. Note: all answers displaying"*****" are marked as sensitive and must be viewed after your login. Name Daniel Tester Email dant@gpeak.com Phone (optional) 5303082657 Public Comment see attached document lf your comment exceeds 2000 characters, please use the attachment function below to attach your comment in a separate document. Attachment Truckee Proposed STIR Ordinance Comments-Dan Tester.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 My name is Dan Tester. I am a 17-year Truckee resident and a Principal with Granite Peak Management, a property& hospitality management company based in Alpine Meadows. Specifically to Truckee, we manage several HOAs, a condominium hotel (Donner Lake Village) and through our short-term rental brand (Tahoe Vacation Rentals) individual dwellings inside Town limits. I have some general comments about the proposed Ordinance and questions/comments about specific items In general, the Town of Truckee is wise to adopt a Short-Term Rental Ordinance that is like the reasonable and fair Ordinance recently adopted by Placer County. Other municipalities in our greater region have unnecessarily adopted much more onerous and draconian regulations. A well supported and resourced Ordinance should help root out some of the "bad actors",who are a minority of the STRS in Truckee. Issues of trash, noise, parking and other nuisance behaviors are NOT limited strictly to short term renters. Data produced by the Mountain Housing Council in March of 2019 indicates only 13%of Town of Truckee housing stock is used for STRs. Most of these nuisance issues can be reasonably attributed to day visitors, hotel guests, STRs, second homeowners and locals alike. Specific Comments/Questions: • Exemptions-shouldn't there be an exemption for Hotels, Motels,Timeshare Resorts, Condominium Hotels, existing Resorts, etc.? The Placer County Ordinance specifically calls these out as exempt. • Exemptions-Regarding Registration Certificate requirements and exemptions, we currently remit TOT for our Donner Lake Village Rental Program units under one TOT certificate. These 38 units are part of an HOA, but Granite Peak Management operates this facility as a Condominium Hotel. As a Condo Hotel, we are already subject to the life &safety items and undergo yearly Truckee Fire department inspections. We staff the property daily with Guest Services, Housekeeping and Maintenance staff. We market and sell our units "homogenously" by unit type as opposed to by individual unit. It is in essence a Hotel and purpose built for this type of activity. Units on an official on-site Condo Hotel Rental Program (such as Donner Lake Village) should be exempted from this ordinance • Fee StruCtu re-There should be a lesser fee structure for professionally managed properties. Professionally managed properties experience less nuisance issues. • Bear Resistant Trash Enclosure-This is not an STR issue,this a community issue. All dwellings in the Town of Truckee should be required to have a Bear Resistant Trash Enclosures.