Category: STVR News

Vacation rental lottery must be on the level Re “Summer’s coming but San Diego isn’t ready to start regulating short-term rentals as planned” (Jan. 27): The city has turned a blind eye to a substantial proliferation of short-term vacation rentals in Mission Beach since 2010. Having allowed as many as 1,900 of the community’s 3,620 …

Read more “Opinion: San Diego short-term vacation rental policy delay another disappointment for residents – The San Diego Union-Tribune”

At Tybee Island’s City Council meeting on Thursday, councilwoman Nancy DeVetter discussed cleaning up the city’s voter rolls. This discussion was the result of a group of people expressing concern that some may be voting illegally.Mack Kitchens, who ran for Tybee City Council in the past, said he realized there might be a problem with …

Read more “Push to clean up Tybee Island voter rolls gets mixed reactions – WJCL News”

Fireworks erupted during the Pacific Beach Town Council’s July meeting with a testy exchange between the board and San Diego City Council member Jennifer Campbell’s Pacific Beach representative over a proposal for permitting and regulating short-term vacation rentals in the city. At issue was what local representatives called their lack of input in a recent …

Read more “PB Town Council calls new proposal for short-term rentals 'an insult to us' – pbmonthly.net”

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (WTOC) – Short-term vacation rentals are hot topic across our area as many local cities rely heavily on tourism. Tourism is a billion dollar a year business here on the island, with many of those tourists staying in short-term vacation rentals. However, some locals feel STVR’s may be growing too popular …

Read more “Hilton Head community shares concerns over growing number of short-term vacation rentals – WTOC”

Today, February 9, the Ocean Beach Planning Board is sending Mayor Gloria and every member of the San Diego City Council a letter with the Board’s proposed changes to any short-term vacation rental ordinance – the subject of an upcoming discussion at Council. The ordinance being discussed by Council is the proposed “compromise” concocted by …

Read more “Ocean Beach Planning Board Proposes Changes to Campbell's Short-Term Vacation Rental Ordinance – OB Rag”

North Kona and South Kohala are home to about 80% of short-term vacation rentals on the island and 87% of complaints about STVRs registered countywide with the Planning Department. That’s according to analysis presented Thursday to the Leeward Planning Commission, as commissioners were given an update about STVRs registered to date in advance of upcoming …

Read more “North Kona, South Kohala vacation rental hotspots – West Hawaii Today”

A Ventura County Superior Court judge has ruled short-term vacation rentals are allowed in single-family residential zones in Ventura’s beachside community.  The decision, delivered via a minute order Dec. 26, quashes an argument residents in other communities have similarly made: that short-term vacation rentals operate as businesses and should not be allowed in residential areas. “True as it may …

Read more “Ventura vacation rentals OK in residential zones, judge rules – vcstar.com”