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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
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41/58
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41/61
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Sunrise Tuesday .............. 6:09 a.m.
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+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
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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.
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