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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2016 Housing shortage tied to vacation rentals the marNet, then that per cent has to serve all the peo ple Zho Zant to live here,´ City 0anaJer Brant .ucera said at a City Council ZorN session this month. “That is essentially one of the maMor issues drivinJ affordability and availability.´ )laZs detected in Cannon Beach’s shortterm rental reJulations By LYRA FONTAINE The Daily Astorian New inspections sought CA1121 B(AC+ ² Cannon Beach’s approach to vacation rentals has been held out as a model for other cities , includinJ *earhart, Zhich is ZrestlinJ over neZ rules . But problems surfacinJ in Cannon Beach indicate À aZs to the shortterm rental sys tem, Zhich includes a lottery, limitation on shortterm rental properties, infreTuent inspec tions and limited enforcement. In addition, too many vacation rentals could be inhibitinJ the city’s lonJterm housinJ stocN and even further diminish inJ ZorN force and affordable housinJ. ³If percent of the hous inJ marNet is essentially off A shorter inspection cycle and other chanJes may come to Cannon Beach’s shortterm rental proJram, Zhich encom passes about dZellinJs, or more than percent of the city’s , housinJ units. City staff recommended more frequent inspections than the current ¿ veyear cycle to minimize the number of code violations and alloZ infractions to be ¿ [ed sooner. “:e’re ¿ ndinJ that the ¿ ve year loop is enouJh time for a lot of little chanJes to come in and add up to a problem,´ city planner 0arN Barnes said, rec ommendinJ that inspections shift to a shorter interval until the city is uptodate on viola tions. “There’s a hiJher stan ‘If 60 percent of the housing market is essentially off the market, then that 40 percent has to serve all the people who want to live here.’ Brant Kucera city manager dard of safety associated Zith transient rentals.´ The city uncovers viola tions in periodical “batches,´ mostly from ¿ veyear inspec tions or audits. The audit uncovered a larJe number of violations, Zhich could include uneven stairs, missinJ rail inJs, smoNe detectors or car bon mono[ide monitors need inJ repair, or locNs not ZorNinJ. “These are safety thinJs that people can Jet hurt on and cit ies can Jet sued on,´ Barnes said. “It Must taNes so lonJ to actually chase these doZn. I’d ACCUWEATHER ® FORECAST FOR ASTORIA Astoria 5-Day Forecast Tonight Oregon Weather Shown is tomorrow’s weather. Temperatures are tonight’s lows and tomorrow’s highs Partly cloudy 41° Tuesday The Dalles 41/65 Astoria 41/58 Portland 41/61 Corvallis 36/62 Eugene 33/60 Pendleton 37/64 Salem 37/61 Albany 35/60 Wednesday Burns 24/61 Medford 34/63 Some sun Klamath Falls 21/55 Plenty of clouds with a little rain Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 58° 43° 61° Thursday 44° Friday Sunshine and patchy clouds Variable clouds with a couple of showers 59° 59° 45° 45° Almanac Sun and Moon Astoria through Sunday. Temperatures High ........................................... 56° Low ............................................ 45° Normal high ............................... 57° Normal low ................................. 42° Precipitation Yesterday ................................ 0.32" Month to date .......................... 1.94" Normal month to date ............. 4.35" Year to date ........................... 36.32" Normal year to date .............. 29.44" Sunset tonight .................. 8:16 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday .............. 6:09 a.m. Moonrise today ............... 11:39 p.m. Moonset today ................. 8:34 a.m. Regional Cities City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newport North Bend Hi 54 50 57 57 55 50 59 54 57 Last New First Full Apr 29 May 6 May 13 May 21 Hi 61 57 56 60 55 55 63 54 56 Tues. Lo W 30 pc 34 pc 46 pc 43 pc 45 pc 33 pc 44 pc 44 pc 47 pc National Cities City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Vancouver Yakima Hi 60 61 61 59 60 55 63 58 65 Today Lo W 34 pc 37 pc 41 pc 37 pc 37 pc 41 pc 39 pc 37 pc 35 pc Hi 60 64 61 62 61 55 63 58 68 Tues. Lo W 38 pc 40 pc 46 pc 45 pc 43 pc 45 pc 40 pc 44 pc 41 pc Tonight's Sky: Low in the east around midnight, the waning gibbous moon will be near Mars, Saturn and Antares. Source: Jim Todd, OMSI Tomorrow’s Tides Astoria / Port Docks Time High 3:56 a.m. 8.6 ft. 5:33 p.m. 7.0 ft. Time 10:54 a.m. 10:53 p.m. Low 0.0 ft. 2.9 ft. Tomorrow’s National Weather Today City Hi Lo W Atlanta 81 63 s Boston 62 42 c Chicago 80 53 c Denver 73 39 pc Des Moines 79 54 c Detroit 72 54 t El Paso 85 58 s Fairbanks 63 38 c Honolulu 86 71 sh Indianapolis 81 62 pc Kansas City 77 62 c Las Vegas 67 52 sh Los Angeles 69 52 s Memphis 84 68 s Miami 84 71 s Nashville 86 63 s New Orleans 84 70 pc New York 71 54 pc Oklahoma City 84 66 pc Philadelphia 80 62 s St. Louis 85 68 c Salt Lake City 57 45 t San Francisco 64 51 s Seattle 59 44 pc Washington, DC 83 66 s Tues. Hi Lo W 84 65 s 45 37 r 57 43 c 57 34 sh 80 52 pc 67 39 pc 75 51 s 64 39 pc 85 72 pc 78 56 c 81 62 c 76 57 s 72 53 s 86 69 t 82 71 s 88 66 c 83 72 t 69 45 t 81 58 t 81 52 t 86 67 c 55 42 sh 64 54 s 60 46 pc 86 59 c +omeoZners Zho rent out their home for periods of less than days must be in the shortterm rental pro Jram, Zhich consists of three subproJrams. Transient rentals, limited to permits, include about transient rentals Jrandfathered into the proJram, and lot tery transient rentals that e[pire after ¿ ve years. The lottery transient rental subproJram is Housing impact The City Council also dis cussed the lacN of affordable housinJ available in Cannon Beach, and possibly placinJ further limits on shortterm rentals. “It’s easy to Mump to the con clusion that there’s the source of the affordable housinJ prob lem,´ Barnes said of the city’s shortterm rentals. “I don’t NnoZ if that’s necessarily true because I don’t NnoZ if all of those dZellinJ units Zould convert to lonJterm rentals or permanent occupancy.´ +oZever, the percent of shortterm rentals “has an effect´ on housinJ availability, Barnes said. “That’s a not insiJ ni¿ cant fraction of our homes that are in this proJram noZ.´ 6everal councilors said shortterm rentals maNe up at least percent of the city’s second homes. .ucera said there are more housinJ units than households, Zhich are about , suJJest inJ that a larJe portion of hous inJ units, about percent, are second homes or not currently occupied by residents. New limits? 5entinJ homes to vaca tioners can be more lucrative than rentinJ them out lonJ term, City Councilor 0iNe Bene¿ eld said, and the oZner retains access to the home. “:ith the marNetinJ that Ze’ve done for Cannon Beach, rents for a ZeeNend are Jreater than a person Zho lives here can afford for a month,´ Bene ¿ eld said. “6o if you rent tZo ZeeNends tZice a month, you’ll never maNe it available for resi dents. I thinN that’s a problem.´ +e added, “I don’t NnoZ hoZ Ze can overcome that.´ 0ayor 6am 6teidel said that percent of the city’s hous inJ stocN is a “Jood number´ of shortterm rentals for the city. Councilor *eorJe 9et ter said attempts to offset peo ple usinJ homes as shortterm rentals are “¿ JhtinJ aJainst the Zind.´ “I don’t thinN that Ze can e[pect to turn this toZn into a residential community Zhere Ze don’t have people cominJ here for second homes,´ 9etter said. “It’s the nature of Zhere Ze live.´ Ammon Bundy questions leJal authority of feds to prosecute him Associated Press Under the Sky Today Lo W 30 c 23 c 41 pc 33 pc 44 pc 21 c 34 pc 40 pc 41 pc Inspector needed +irinJ an inhouse build inJ of¿ cial Zould maNe the violation correction process smoother, he said. If a violation is uncov ered, the city does not alloZ the homeoZner to rent it out until the problem is corrected, .ucera said. “Almost all of them Zant to correct them and Jet bacN into business, ´ he said. +oZever, the current con tracted buildinJ of¿ cial is only able to inspect homes for hours per ZeeN. .ucera said he hopes to hire a buildinJ of¿ cial, Zho Zould also enforce code, by -uly . 6taff proposed that the employee ZorN hours a ZeeN and three times a ZeeN. Sites avoid rules Ontario 42/69 Bend 23/57 liNe to thinN there is a more ef¿ cient Zay of doinJ that.´ JroZinJ, Barnes said, Zith names on the list. The proJram also includes about vacation home rent als that have a day limit. Permits are not capped for these rentals. +oZever, Barnes said peo ple not in the permit proJram are rentinJ out their homes on Zebsites and are liNely not pay inJ room ta[es. “I don’t NnoZ if that’s a biJ number but the point is I really don’t NnoZ, ´ he said. (nforcinJ shortterm rental reJulations on sites liNe Airbnb can be dif¿ cult. It’s also challenJinJ to mon itor noise, parNinJ and other issues that stem from short term renters in second homes, several city councilors said. The city’s shortterm rental code states that the purpose of reJulations are “to protect the character of the city’s resi dential neiJhborhoods´ and to maNe sure shortterm rentals “Zill be compatible Zith sur roundinJ residential areas and Zill not materially alter the neiJhborhoods in Zhich they are located.´ Barnes recalled a DesiJn 5evieZ Board meetinJ last year Zhen a resident said she Zas the only homeoZner on her blocN Zho lived there full time. P25T/A1D ² /aZyers for Ammon Bundy plan to arJue that the federal Jovern ment lacNs Murisdiction to pros ecute him for the taNeover of a national Zildlife refuJe in 2reJon. In court papers ¿ led )riday, attorney Lissa Casey says a forthcominJ motion to dismiss the case Zill challenJe the fed eral Jovernment’s authority to assert oZnership over the 0al heur 1ational :ildlife 5efuJe. 6he says Bundy intends to arJue the Jovernment relin quished the land that became the refuJe Zhen it Zas pre viously deeded and home steaded. Moreover, it lost the riJht to oZn the land once 2re Jon Jot statehood. Bundy and his folloZers seized the refuJe -an. and held it for days in a pro test over federal land policy and the imprisonment of tZo ranchers. +e has pleaded not Juilty to conspiracy and ¿ rearms charJes. PUBLIC MEETINGS Fronts Cold Warm Stationary Showers T-Storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Forecast high/low temperatures are given for selected cities. 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