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