New Santa Cruz Law: Is it Fair?
There is a new, hotly debated ordinance up for debate later this summer. Local residents of the Live Oak area in Santa Cruz, Ca are divided on whether they are in support or opposition of the proposed law. This ordinance surfaced after years of neighborhood complaints regarding excessive noise, littering and public intoxication associated with many vacation rentals. Neighbors of problem vacation homes claim that the problem has been escalating as the Internet provides a means for absentee owners to rent directly to vacationers. In some cases the character of some streets and neighborhoods have been changed drastically for the fulltime residents due to the increase in vacation rentals. Since there are already similar laws passed in the close coastal cities of Monterey and Carmel, it is expected that the California Coastal Commission will likely end up ruling in favor of local residents who are in support of limiting vacation rentals and requiring landlords to apply for permits every 5 years. This news comes on the heels of a 4-1 approval of the ordinance by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors who approved the draft vacation rental ordinance and the extension of the moratorium on the establishment of new vacation rentals in the Live Oak Designated Area (LODA). The fact of the matter is that local residents care about the quality of the places they call home, and these weekend partiers are coming in and destroying the community. There should be regulations in place to limit these behaviors and the people who allow them.
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