HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-04-02 PL-CCI-2024-000003 Bill 121 Richard Prohoroff Testimony From: Richard Prohoroff
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Subject: bill 1121 testimony
Date: Tuesday,April 2,2024 8:19:39 AM
Attachments: NEW TESTIMONY AGAINST BILL 121 4-2-24.docx
NEW TESTIMONY AGAINST BILL 121
I'M VERY DISSAPOINTED . Some legislators are so smart that they are going to force numerous
HOSTED vacation rentals to close thinking it will solve their incompetence in creating an
environment that would provide a free market solution to affordable housing. Most of the hosted
vacation are in areas that never will be affordable rentals and the ones that could be are often family
trying to make ends meet. Being on a private road and a private water system what interest is it of
the county to take property rights away from me. Over the years my property has been home to
family and as time marches on rented outside of family and now in old age as a vacation rental my
best means of retirement. I see no provision in this bill for the county to take over our deteriorating
road and hook me up to county water and offer major financial and technical assistance to be able
to farm marginal desert land. Over the last 50 years you council people have done great partnering
with developers and hotels and making sure resort workers have opportunity for housing. Woops!!
No! Why not? No Matter how many Leis you wear at your fundraisers the leis and your wages are
on the backs of workers, voters who deserve better, smarter Solutions. Solutions that secure
property rights not take them away. The cost and difficulty of building a single-family home or even
an addition or remodel is ridiculous here. Interest rates and yearlong plus waiting for permits,
Housing programs with multiple year wait times. Unfarmable ag land acreage that is impossible to
get zoning to build additional housing, The difficulty of getting a water meter are just a few of the
issues that should be on our elected officials' priorities. Richard Prohoroff