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From: Richard Ingram <br /> To: LPCtestimony <br /> Subject: Bill 121-Comment Letter 2 of 2 <br /> Date: Sunday,April 14, 2024 9:59:58 AM <br /> Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments regarding proposed Bill <br /> 121. <br /> 1 am providing two comment letters to the Commission. The first letter <br /> addressed a specific line item of the bill. This letter, the second of two, <br /> addresses how the current regulations, enacted though the passage of Bill 108 <br /> five years ago, have impacted me and my neighborhood. My hope is that the <br /> Commission might better understand and be able to foresee potential <br /> outcomes regarding further regulation of vacation rentals. <br /> I am an owner of a fully compliant and registered residential vacation rental. I <br /> choose to rent my home part time to guests when I am not on the island. <br /> Just this week I received the following complaint from one of my neighbors: <br /> "Your current tenants have a smoker who I have repeatedly seen walking up <br /> and down (Street Name Removed) smoking a cigarette. This morning she is <br /> sitting in the gutter outside your property smoking. IS THIS NOW A HOMELESS <br /> COMMUNITY. HAVE YOU NO RESPECT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THIS AREA <br /> HOME. IT IS ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER. <br /> THIS HAS TO STOP!" <br /> To provide context to this comment — this observation was made sometime in <br /> the morning before 9:30 AM on my street in a quiet public residential <br /> neighborhood in front of my house. The street has a terrific view, and as <br /> everyone knows who lives in Kona, morning is a blessed time to be out. I do not <br /> allow smoking in my house or on my lot. If you are a guest at my home you <br /> have to choose another spot to smoke. I would believe one would choose the <br /> curb and not the gutter to sit on — but who knows! Certainly, the individual <br /> smoking is not homeless!! <br />