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understand are there any nationwide best practices for short-term <br /> rentals....and...so I looked at fourteen different <br /> cities...and...collected information about the different components <br /> of a rental ordinance so if you were to sit down you say we need to <br /> regulate this cause there's...this is going everywhere...this is most <br /> of the tourist cities on the mainland have that problem now and <br /> that so Ms. Eoff when she went out...originally...she actually <br /> wasn't the first one to draft it was the Mayor's office and I know <br /> this because I first talked to the Mayor's office and they put me in <br /> touch with her so...Roy Takemoto from the Mayor's office drafted <br /> this bill originally it when he presented it at the Rotary club back <br /> in November...and...he then worked with Dru Kanuha and Ms. <br /> Eoff to introduce it...so but anyways...starting back from this <br /> particular bill looking at the fourteen different cities...the...what <br /> are the components that would be in any ordinance...that anybody <br /> could introduce...and...basically what you find if you look at this <br /> is that half of the fourteen communities most of them...that are in <br /> tourist areas...what they tend to do is they limit the number of <br /> short-term rentals by geography...it kind of makes sense if you <br /> think about because...you want to avoid short-term rentals <br /> spreading into residential areas were they compete with <br /> homeowners...and where capitalist flowing in you know...people <br /> are buying up lots and then you have commercial activity <br /> competing with private mortgages you know essentially...cash <br /> buyers competing with you know with private mortgages...so half <br /> of the cities limit either by census track or by zoning...and what <br /> Ms. Eoff is alleged here is that she has a unique benefit...I think <br /> what Mr. Guzman alleges is that she has a unique benefit from the <br /> fact that her unit which is in the Kona Islander Inn...you know <br /> happens to be in a commercial zone which is you know not <br /> regulated and I mean where it's in the bill and the bill language is <br /> as commercial zones you know...I not going to be regulated and <br /> the other areas the residential would be regulated but this is exactly <br /> what half of the cities on the mainland do...and it makes total <br /> sense you know I mean...you wouldn't regulate commercial zones <br /> because you want to push the commercial activity into those zones <br /> you know that's what they're zoned for and so I think there <br /> really...Mr. Guzman is waving a red flag but I don't see anything <br /> there...just stepping back and looking at this from other <br /> communities...give you an example...Charleston limits the <br /> number of rental units to one per lot in a residential neighborhood <br /> but nine in non-residential...so they also restricted in commercial <br /> areas but much...they allow much more...Austin limits non-owner <br /> occupied short-term rentals to three percent of the housing units in <br /> residential districts only there...so again...Ms. Eoff s unit is not in <br /> a residential unit so she'd be okay in Austin...she'd be okay in <br /> 2 <br />