Starting Tuesday short-term rental property owners will be able to apply for a tier four occupancy license.<\/p>\n
Applications will be limited to a 45-day period that will end on August 15th.<\/p>\n
Existing license holders are eligible to apply to be added to the whole home short-term rental list, also known as Tier 4 list. If they are approved, they will have to cancel their existing lower-tier license.<\/p>\n
The city closed applications more than two years ago because it had reached capacity.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s probably due to the fact that so many people have been placed out of the market so places opened up,\u201d Marty Zimmerman said.<\/p>\n
Zimmerman said the scale of short-term vacation rentals has grown so much, it has priced some locals out of the housing market, especially at beachfront locations like Mission Beach.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe place behind me is the place we had to sell because taxes became so ridiculous and the new owner said, yeah, we\u2019re going to double the rents,\u201d Zimmerman said.<\/p>\n
When he sold this apartment complex, 20 people had to find a new place to live, including some who lived there for nearly 40 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were in tears, literally like where am I going to go?… and I go, I wish I could help you, I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t have the money to keep the place running,\u201d Zimmerman said.<\/p>\n
Zimmerman said he remembers when short-term vacation rentals used to be seasonal, but said in the last few years that has changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cost of doing business in San Diego is so high, that you have to either raise the rents, or you sell,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Gary Katz helped draft some of the short-term residential occupancy ordinances with various groups.<\/p>\n
He said the STRO Ordinance was intended to encourage accountability for vacation rentals and set a cap on the amount of rentals.<\/p>\n
According to city data, Mission Beach has the largest percentage of Short-term rentals at 30 percent, compared to the rest of San Diego County.<\/p>\n
Katz said having a huge amount of short-term vacation rental properties in one neighborhood erodes the sense of community.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes it less of a neighborhood and more of a hotel and I think a lot of the properties here are treated as hotels, and the people that vacation here, treat the area as if it was their playground to use and abuse,\u201d Katz said.<\/p>\n
Katz said when the city initiated the short-term vacation rental licenses, there were a number of violations of the ordinance that went unenforced.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this is a budgetary issue, if the city is really concerned about budget, enforce it. If you have laws on the book and property owners that are violating a clear ordinance, enforce that, charge the maximum amount of fines, and it will help with compliance and it will help the budget,\u201d Katz said.<\/p>\n
Jay Goldberg is a short-term rental compliance watchdog.<\/p>\n
He used the city\u2019s short-term rental license database and the country\u2019s property parcel data to keep track of the number of units at each property that have licenses.<\/p>\n
He said short-term rentals have a significant impact on the availability of housing for locals.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s attractive to investors to overbid for it because the income for Airbnb is so much higher than for a local renter,\u201d Jay Goldberg said.<\/p>\n
Goldberg said 50 percent of short-term rentals in San Diego are one to two bed rooms that could be used for locals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to see them cap the number of units in a building that can be used as short-term rentals, if it\u2019s one owner that owns the whole building,\u201d Goldberg said.<\/p>\n
Goldberg said the city should hold corporations that own short-term rentals accountable when they fail to comply with the ordinance.<\/p>\n
In a statement to NBC 7 Councilmember Jennifer Campbell wrote in part, \u201cI am committed to continuing to foster a positive and respectful relationship between San Diego residents and visitors as we enter this next phase of licensing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting Tuesday short-term rental property owners will be able to apply for a tier four occupancy license. Applications…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7065,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-26396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114770793154498027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}