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2020-02-04 CC Agenda - Public Communications related to Item #C4 - Short-Term RentalHarada, Patricia From: Sent: To: Subject: Weaver, Tracy (City Clerk) Tuesday, February 04, 2020 1:13 PM *ALL CITY CLERKS FW: Public Comments - City Council Meeting Feb 4, 2020 - Short Term Rental From: Mona Eisman [mailto:eismanmktg@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2020 11:26 AM To: Boyles,Drew (Mayor); Pirsztuk, Carol (Mayor pro tem); Scot Nicol; Pimentel, Chris (Council member); Igiroux@elsegundo.org; Weaver, Tracy (City Clerk) Cc: Gary Schmunk Subject: Public Comments - City Council Meeting Feb 4, 2020 - Short Term Rental City Council - Public Comments for Meeting on Feb 4th regarding Short Term Rental We are still discussing, reviewing Short Term Rental Ordinance, I wish I could be there, after four years of showing up and speaking on behalf of our community, our neighbors, I am unable to miss work. Please read and consider my public comments in your deliberation on this very important issue to our City. My Concerns and Questions have not changed, they include: 1. How will the City verify and enforce the 6 month Residency? The responsibility should be solely the Property Owner or tenant to provide proof to the city to verify and not the neighbors reporting their coming and goings. Beware of ghost hosts. How will the City enforce, check, verify this rule in the proposed ordinance? 2. What are the obligations, responsibilities of the Host/Property Owner? a. Answer the phone, respond immediately, on-site management to handle all problems? b. Will the Police have the authority to evict Homesharing guests? c. Who will pay for the additional City, Police, Fire, Paramedic resources? d. Who is financially responsible for all the costs and risks associated with the commercial operations and disruptions to our community? Today the Neighbors and the city pay the price, while the Host/Property Owner earns significant income... e. Trash — will the host/property owner be responsible for additional trash or will the neighbors bear the price? f. Who is responsible for security when a neighbors home is used for daily check -ins; Strangers, new people, guests coming and going at all times of the day and night without a responsible party, manager, host, owner present to provide assistance or handle problems. g. Traffic, Ubers and Parking at all times of the day and night — who is responsible, will cars be towed? How will the city enforce the Party House/Big Event clause — will a family gathering be a Party? Will the City consistently, proactively enforce, cite and charge fines to Hosts/Property Owners who actively seek out groups to stay at their properties? Or will excuses, I didn't know, the guests promised they would be quiet explanations be enough to escape fines. When a Property Owner rents out their home, they need to be prepared for the expected, potential problems that will and should create a disruption, noise, traffic and worse yet violence at the property. 4. Will the City require the Homesharing Platforms to provide data and quickly support all police inquiries? I hope that the City engages a professional company to monitor the STRental listings, bookings, reviews in our City. A necessary cost incurred by the City. A note to the Professional Staff who is afraid that banning or limiting STR will drive the practice underground. The growing financial opportunity is based on the ease of searching, booking, paying for vacation rentals on a growing list of Hotel, Home Share and STR platforms. All advertisements and bookings are posted, providing a digital record. Also, in response to the question, that people will say it's 30 days, and then only book for one weekend, all marketing, transactions, representations will be part of the Digital Record. If a Host rents for "30 Days", then that should exclude them from renting again during the time of the fake lease. 5. What is the Fiscal Impact of full time Home Sharing: Host/Property Owner financially gains while the City, the taxpayers and the neighbor pays! Will the City hire additional resources, code enforcement headcount to manage, enforce STR properties? Is it fair for the residents, the taxpayers will pay for the additional costs incurred, consider raising the fees so that STR does represent a negative impact on the City Budget? 6. Why are the RI neighborhoods being converted into de -factor hotel districts, while residents living in apartments and townhouses know their neighbors, are protected from STR? 7. Does the City Council understand the potential investment value due to our proximity to LAX and the Beach? Do we want Corporations, Investor Groups (and Hotel, Hospitality Companies are buying up properties across this nation in Residential neighborhoods) to purchase homes for the sole purpose of STR, operating a hotel? Or do we want to attract families, employees to buy properties and make El Segundo their home? Does El Segundo want to test the most ouen, least restrictive regulations on STR in LA Countv, attracting all the investors, Home sharing platforms to our small residential community? Or is this ordinance part of a city plan to develop, expand the commercial zones in our city? Does this further demonstrate the lack of commitment to the residential community, our schools, the heart of our city. City Council and Planning Commission Members have said many, many times in the four years of meetings we have been attending that they do not want to limit the financial opportunity, impose too many regulations on the property owners in our city. Who represents, speaks for the law abiding, good neighbors in our community? Why has it been our responsibility, our time, our expense to defend ourselves, work so hard, for so long to get support, help in the face of continued, disruption, noise, lack of security and safety, while the bad actor, offending party has continued to earn significant revenues, disregarding city laws, staff, police, the entire community. How will the City handle the many new Investor, full time STR Property owners with resources and financial motivation, significant income at stake differently after the passing of this ordinance? These property owners or hosts are not responsible members of our community, they are driven by their individual financial opportunity, not any concern for the city or local laws. This is not about one Party House, this is about the larger vision for our city? Do we want to attract residents, families, with children to support our schools? Do we want to provide long term rental housing opportunities for the employees who work in the many new companies we are working so hard to attract to our City? Or do we want to open our RI neighborhoods to commercial hotel development? What is the city plan when more and more El Segundo property owners build ADU's solely for the purpose of earning full time STR income? I know many do not agree with the Sacramento ADU law, but we must remember the intent was to provide desperately needed long term housing, not add hotel rooms in our residential neighborhoods. The STR Ordinance and discussions about ADU's are intersecting parts of the City Vision, Plan and these two important issues facing every city, they challenge our elected leaders, planning staffs, neighbors to think about the future opportunity to grow our residential communities. If the City Council passes this STR Ordinance, what will the City Council response be to residents who find themselves living on a street with 2, 3, 5 homes that have become STR, full-time hotels. This happened to a friend of mine, they are considering two options either renting their home as STR (joining them) or selling and moving. Staying, living in their home with their family is no longer a livable option. Reminder, there is a responsible business model being enacted and enforced across the country and near us in LA and Santa Monica that is Limited Days Home sharing that provides additional income opportunity, ensures onsite management, limits disruption, while preserving our community and neighborhoods. I hope that you seriously consider the many, many dangerous, very difficult realities facing cities and communities across the country and the growing trend of new regulations restricting Short Term Rental and carefully consider, think about what is best for El Segundo; the people who live here, not only those maximizing their financial opportunity at the expense of their neighbors and the city. Thank you, Mona Eisman 415 Concord Street El Segundo, CA 90245 Eisman Marketing Group EismanMarketinq.com Eismanmktg@gmail.com Mobile: 310 629 6431 Harada. Patricia From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Attachments: Request for continuance attached McClain, Gregg Tuesday, February 04, 2020 2:03 PM *ALL CITY CLERKS Lee, Sam; Mitnick, Scott; Voss, Barbara; Schonborn, Eduardo FW: EI Segundo 2020-02-04 - EI Segundo extension letter.pdf From: Benjamin Lee [mailto:ben.clee@airbnb.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2020 1:55 PM To: McClain, Gregg Cc: John Choi; Kevin Brunke Subject: Re: EI Segundo Hi Gregg, Attached please find our letter. Happy to edit as you deem fit, particularly with respect to the timing portion. Thanks, Ben On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 9:53 AM McClain, Gregg <amcclainQ.elseaundo.ora.> wrote: Ben, Would you, on behalf of AirBnB, be able to send me a letter asking for our Short Term Rental ordinance to be continued to allow time to work out mutually agreeable language in the ordinance? If so, please send to me as soon as convenient. If that should come from AirBnB, please forward this request. Thank you. Gregg McClain Planning Manager 1 airbnb February 4, 2020 Honorable Members of the EI Segundo City Council EI Segundo City Hall 350 Main Street EI Segundo, CA 90245 Re: Continuation of Public Hearing Dear Mayor Boyles and Honorable Councilmembers, We appreciate the thoughtful effort that council has taken to craft balanced short-term rental rules that acknowledge the benefits that short-term rentals bring to the pocketbooks of EI Segundo residents, while addressing quality of life concerns and neighborhood impacts. In particular, we commend your City Staff, who have been accessible, maintained an open line of communication with our public policy team and have always represented the interests of EI Segundo's residents. In recent weeks, we've been in a productive dialogue with staff regarding policies that, if implemented, will ensure that our mutual goals of achieving a high level of compliance and protecting EI Segundo's residential neighborhoods are met. We believe we are close to striking an agreement on a framework that accomplishes these goals and therefore respectfully request that councilmembers continue the short-term rental public hearing for 30 more days to the council's first meeting in March. We look forward to strengthening our relationship with the City of EI Segundo and look forward to the City passing short-term rental rules that will serve as a model for other South Bay cities. Sincerely, 1001,15) John Choi Policy Manager, Airbnb Cc Eduardo Schonborn, Principal Planner Mark Hensley, City Attorney Scott Mitnick, City Manager Benjamin Lee Counsel, Policy alrbnb