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Bill Placing Days-Per-Year Limit on STVR Properties Moving Through Sacramento

By Danny Freeman •


Published June 19, 2019 •
Updated on June 19, 2019 at 7:14 pm

>> GOOD EVENING, THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. >> SHORT-TERM RENTAL SUPPORTERS FACED ANOTHER THIS WEEK. >> BUT THE BATTLE ON THIS CONTROVERSIAL HOUSING ISSUE IS LOCALLY. NBC7’S DANNY FREEMAN JOINS US ON THE BATTLES GOING ON AT THE CAPITOL AND AT SO WE’VE BEEN ASSEMBLY BILL FOR AWHILE NOW. BILL WOULD PUT RESTRICTIONS ON HOW MANY DAYS LIKE COULD RENTALS ALONG SAN DIEGO’S COAST. 1731 PASSED ASSEMBLY LAST MONTH AND PASSED ITS COMMITTEE THIS WEEK, HAS THE SHORT-TERM SUPPORTERS ON THE DEFENSIVE. >> MY FIRST CONDO TWO BLOCKS I GOT THE HOUSE. I’M LEAVING. >> Reporter: BRIAN HAS LIVED IN PACIFIC OVER 30 YEARS SO HE GETS PB. >> WE’RE NOT JUST TALKING NOISE OR THE VISITORS, HAPPENS IN PACIFIC BEACH RIGHT? >> Reporter: BUT HE JUST LOSING THE COMMUNITY. >> IT’S A LONG-TERM TENANT, YOU CAN GO NEXT AND TALK TO THAT IT’S A VISITOR WHO GONE THE NEXT DAY, THEY’RE GONE DAY. >> Reporter: THE OPPONENTS OF SHORT-TERM VACATION RENTALS 1731 ITS WAY THROUGH SACRAMENTO. >> TO ME IT’S A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. >> Reporter: THREE MILES UP LA JOLLABOULEVARD, THIS ADVOCATE THE BILL INEFFECTIVE AT TACKLING AFFORDABLE HOUSING. >> THESE HOMES HAVE NEVER BEEN AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND NEVER WILL BE. >> Reporter: A NEW SHORT-TERM VACATION RENTAL PROPOSAL A SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP IS WORRYING VACATION RENTAL COMPANY THAT GROUP IS MADE OF VARIOUS TOWN MORE AND JONAH HIS INTERESTS ARE IN OUR TRUE SHORT-TERM RENTAL GROUP SHOULD BE PEOPLE SIDES OF THIS ISSUE. >> Reporter: RESPONDING, TOWN COUNCIL PRESIDENT TOLD NBC7 THE GROUP RESIDENTS AND COMMERCIAL ENTITIES. BOTH SIDES ONCE AGAIN FINDING COMMON GROUND. DOES THIS SEEM LIKE A NEVER-ENDING BATTLE? >> IT BEEN. ALIVE, WELL AND KICKING, UNFORTUNATELY. >> NOW, YOU’RE WONDERING WHAT’S LATEST ON THESE TWO WELL, THAT SACRAMENTO BILL NOW TO THE SENATE NATURAL AND WATER COMMITTEE. WE’LL ON THAT. AND THE SAN DIEGO WORKING GROUP WILL HAVE A PUBLIC MEETING TO SPEAK","video_id":"1548935235678_562","video_length":"149416","video_provider":"","short_video_excerpt":"","mpx_download_pid_mobile_low":"","pid_streaming_web_mobile_low":"","mpx_download_pid_mobile_standard":"","pid_streaming_mobile_standard":"","alleypack_schedule_unpublish":"","feed_remote_id":"","feed_thumbnail_url":""}” data-livestream=”false” data-title=”Short Term Rental Debate Heats Up” data-vidcid=”1:13:147062″ data-vidurl=”https://www.nbcsandiego.com/on-air/as-seen-on/short-term-rental-debate-heats-up_san-diego-2/147062/” data-islead=”true” data-catnames=”{"11764":"On Air","18052":"As Seen On"}” data-tagnames=”{"219":"Danny Freeman","33":"KNSD","38":"NBC","37":"NBCUniversal Inc.","107":"President","88":"Reporter","642":"Sacramento","4":"San Diego","36":"VMS"}” data-customdata=”{}” data-autoplay=”true” data-cplay=”true”>

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The long battle for short term rental housing continues locally after a setback from the state’s capital. NBC 7’s Danny Freeman has more.

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A bill that could limit the availability of short-term rentals moved one step closer to becoming law, worrying some proponents of the richly-debated industry.

Assembly Bill 1731 limits the amount of days a vacation rental platform — think Airbnb or VRBO — could make a property available for short term rentals to 30 days out of the year. One exception is if the owner of the property lives there full time.

AB 1731 passed the Assembly in May and just passed its first senate committee Wednesday. As it inches its way along in Sacramento, supporters of STVR’s in San Diego are paying attention.

“Every committee it clears, it worries us a bit more,” said Jonah Mechanic, President of Share San Diego and STVR property manager.

> GLAD HE WASN’T MORE HURT FOR INTERVENING LIKE THAT. >> CRITICS OF SHORT-TERM RENTALS SCORED A BIG WIN IN SACRAMENTO THIS WEEK. A SAN DIEGO COUNTY SPECIFIC BILL THAT WOULD RESTRICT VACATION RENTAL PLATFORMS LIKE AIRBNB AND VRBO PASSED THE CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY. BUT THIS IS FAR FROM OVER. DANNY FREEMAN JOINS US WITH THIS ONGOING DEBATE. >> Reporter: THAT’S RIGHT. TO PUT IT INTO PERSPECTIVE, WHAT’S AT STAKE HERE THE CITY OF SAN DIEGO ALONE HAS MADE NEARLY $83 MILLION IN SHORT-TERM VACATION RENTAL TAX REVENUE SINCE THE START OF 2015, BUT FOR MANY THIS ISN’T ABOUT MONEY OR STAT E POLITICS. IT’S SIMPLY ABO UT THE NEIGHBORHOOD. >> JOHN HAPPER PROBABLY KNOWS TWO-THIRDS OF HIS NEIGHBORS B Y NAME. >> PAUL A ND JACKIE, MARIE, BIL L DOWN T HE STREET. PAGE , SEAN. >> Reporter: WHICH IS WHAT COMES FROM LIVING IN HIS CROWN POI NT HOME F OR 20 YEARS. >> WE WANT TO TRY TO KEEP THIS A NEIGHBORHOOD. >> THOUGH HE SAYS SOME SHORT TIMERS HAVEN’T BEEN THE BES T NEIGHBORS. >> WE’VE HAD PEOPLE PULL UP, Y OU KNOW, A FULL BUSLOAD O F GUYS THAT FALL OUT OF THE B US CARRYING CASES OF BEE R AND THEN GO IN THE HOUSE AND TURN UP T HE MUSIC, START, YOU KNOW, GOI NG CRAZY. >> SO AFTER YEARS OF FRUSTRATI NG SHORT-TERM RENTA L DEBATES WIT H LITTLE RESULTS, NEWS AB-173 1 PASSED THE ASSEMBLY IS ENCOURAGING. >> SOMETHING OUT OF SACRAMENTO, IF THAT CAN HELP, Y OU KNOW, WE’RE ALL FOR IT. >> AB-1731 WOULD HIGH TEMPERATURE THE AMOUNT OF DAYS A VACATION RENTAL PLATFORM, SAY AIRBNB OR VRBO, COULD MAKE A PROPERTY AVAILABLE FOR SHORT-TERM RENTALS. LET TAKE THIS CLASSY BEACH CONDO LISTS IN MISSION BEACH. UNDER THE NEW LOT AIRBNB COULD ADVERTISE THIS SPOT FOR 30 DAYS A YEAR. >> IT’S A DEEPLY FLAWED AND COMPLICATED BILL. >> Reporter: THE VACATION PROPERTY MANAGER SAYS PROPERTY OPENERS WILL JUST PUT THEIR 30 DAYS ON AIRBNB AND 30 DAYS ON VRBO AND MAY RESORT TO UP REGULATED S REGULATED SITES. YOU’RE TAKING THE GOOD RENTALS AWAY AND SHIFTING THEM OVER TO THE CRAIGSLISTS OF THE WORLD. >> THOSE WHO RENT PLAN TO LIVE THERE FULL TIME DOWN THE ROAD. >> THEY WANT TO BE OUR LONG-TERM NEIGHBORS AND ONE DAY THEY WILL BE. >> WE DON’T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT, AND PEOPLE THAT DO COME AND STAY LONGER, AND, YOU KNOW, BOTHER EVERYBODY WITH ALL THE NOISE AND THE OTHER THINGS THAT GO OWN. >> NOW THE ONE EXCEPTION TO THE 30-DAY RULE WOULD BE IF THE OWNER OF THE","video_id":"1527635523798_748","video_length":"157190","video_provider":"","short_video_excerpt":"","mpx_download_pid_mobile_low":"","pid_streaming_web_mobile_low":"","mpx_download_pid_mobile_standard":"","pid_streaming_mobile_standard":"","alleypack_schedule_unpublish":"","feed_remote_id":"","feed_thumbnail_url":""}” data-livestream=”false” data-title=”Bill Passes to Limit Airbnb Rentals Across SD Coast” data-vidcid=”1:13:159188″ data-vidurl=”https://www.nbcsandiego.com/on-air/as-seen-on/bill-to-limit-airbnb-rentals-across-sd-coast_san-diego/159188/” data-islead=”false” data-catnames=”{"11764":"On Air","18052":"As Seen On"}” data-tagnames=”{"8449":"AirBnB","8":"California","219":"Danny Freeman","97":"DGO NBCUniversal","96":"Inc.","33":"KNSD","38":"NBC","37":"NBCUniversal Inc.","196":"news","88":"Reporter","642":"Sacramento","232":"San Diego County","5":"United States","36":"VMS","25165":"VRBO"}” data-customdata=”{}” data-autoplay=”false” data-cplay=”true”>

Mechanic criticizes the bill’s effectiveness, and says it does little to solve the region’s affordable housing crisis like its authors claim it will.

“These homes never have been affordable housing, and no matter what they never will be affordable housing,” he said.

Mechanic also worries property owners will just put their rentals 30 days on Airbnb, 30 days on VRBO, and 30 days on another STVR platform, then resort to unregulated sites.

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“It is a deeply flawed, and very complicated bill and quite honestly, ineffective,” Mechanic told NBC 7 in May. “What you’re doing is your taking the good rentals away from the Airbnb’s and Homeaways of the world who pay taxes and follow the rules, and you’re shifting them over to Craigslist.”

Brian Curry is among the long list of San Diegans cheering for AB 1731’s passage. He’s lived in Pacific Beach for more than 30 years and fears the STVR industry is depleting neighborhoods like his of their community feel.

“We’re not just talking about the noise next door or the party next door that happens in Pacific Beach anyway, it’s Pacific Beach,” Curry said. “If it’s a long term tenant, you can go next door you can talk to that tenant. If it’s a visitor who’s gone the next day, they’re gone the next day.”

Curry calls AB 1731 a step in the right direction.

The bill is headed the Senate’s Natural Resources and Water Committee.

New STVR regulation recommendations by the San Diego Community Working Group, made up of several local town council members, is also worrying the STVR property owners

The proposal calls for limiting STVR’s to a host’s primary residence, and suggests there should be proximity limits so that rentals aren’t too close to each other.

You can see the full proposal here. 

Mechanic says the recommendations don’t address STVR business owners’ interests, and argues a true working group would have seats at the table for everyone.

A working group spokesperson said the group represents residents and neighborhoods, not commercial entities.

The working group will address its proposal at a public meeting on July 13th.

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