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| Board backs ban on vacation rentals in GB residential areas Posted: 17 Feb 2011 07:19 PM PST A split Grover Beach Planning Commission will recommend the City Council ban vacation rentals in residential areas — a majority of the city. After listening to numerous pleas from residents to keep vacation rentals out of their neighborhoods, the commission voted 3-2 Tuesday to recommend the ban. Commissioners Chris Long and John Laferriere dissented. "I certainly had my eyes open listening tonight," said Commissioner Janet Roberson. Roberson said her job as a planning commissioner was to make Grover Beach a better place to live, and she didn't believe permitting vacation rentals in residential areas did that. "Who would benefit from a vacation rental?" Roberson asked. "Not the people in Grover Beach." Grover doesn't have an ordinance regulating vacation rentals, and residents recently started lodging complaints with city officials about myriad homes in their neighborhoods they believe are being used as illegal vacation rentals. "If only I knew ... I wouldn't have moved here," said Tom Carter, who lives in the 500 block of Newport Avenue next to a home that's used as a vacation rental. Carter and his wife, Janine, bought what they thought would be their retirement home four years ago and have endured nightmares with the transient neighbors ever since. The couple have considered moving because of what they have experienced. Carter said the individuals who rent the home next to his are usually loud, create parking problems and leave their trash behind when they go home. "It's all weekend and it's late," Carter told the commission. "It gets a little bit old. I want to live here for a long time. Nothing has been done and something has to be taken care of here." Numerous other city residents agreed. Tricia Witt lives in the 300 block of North 14th Street and said a vacation rental on her block also has created similar nightmares for herself and her neighbors. "It's not just the weekends," Witt said. "It's during the week. It's for a month at a time. It continues on and on. At what point do we say enough is enough?" According to city staff, there are 14 vacation rentals in Grover Beach that pay bed tax to the city, although staff and others said there's no way to know for sure how many such rentals exist. "It's hard to get a handle on how many are out there," said Community Development Director Bruce Buckingham. Buckingham said a recent search by city staff of Craigslist showed 19 advertisements for vacation rentals in Grover Beach. Longtime Grover resident and local Realtor Jack Hardy suggested the commission develop a new zoning area, such as North Fourth Street, where vacation rentals could be operated. "It's a good answer to a problem," Hardy said. "Those properties would then be vacation rental properties, and you wouldn't be endangering the peace and quiet of homeowners (across the city)." Commissioner Evans liked the idea of developing a specific zone for vacation rentals but believes the city doesn't have anywhere for such an area since most of Grover is zoned residential. "I don't know where you'd do it in this town," he said. Along with adopting the resolution that could ban vacation rentals in the city's residential areas, if approved by the council, the commission also passed an ordinance regulating the rentals. Buckingham expects the City Council to hold a public hearing in late March on the commission's recommendations for vacation rentals in the city. Pismo Beach doesn't permit vacation rentals in residential areas of the city and parts of Shell Beach. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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