2022-11-15 CC Agenda - Public Communication related to Item D8 - Home Sharing2022-11-15 CC AGENDA PACKET
RELATED TO ITEM C8 - HOME SHARING
Sandoval, Lili
From: Weaver, Tracy (City Clerk)
Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12:36 PM
To: *ALL CITY CLERKS
Subject: FW: Contact the Planning Commission
This email was added for the Commission meeting, we will need to add for the November 15th meeting, as this item will
be on the agenda.
Thank you,
Tracy Weaver I City Clerk
City of El Segundo
350 Main Street El Segundo CA 90245
310.524.2305 1 tweaver@elepundo.org I www.eisegundo.or�
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From: kristin van heuven <kristinvanheuven@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 6:02 PM
To: rbaldino@elsegundoccb.org
Cc: ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS <ALLELECTEDOFFICIALS@elsegundo.org>
Subject: Contact the Planning Commission
Hi Ryan -
I understand this Thursday October 27th the planning commision will be considering whether to allow permanent home
sharing in El Segundo and formulate a recommendation to city council. I spoke to you a bit about this at Bill and Carol
Watkin's meet and greet, sharing that my husband and I have been home sharing through Airbnb since 2016. We have
since registered with a permit number, business license, and pay our TOT every month for the duration of this pilot
program. It has been a very smooth process.
We spoke about how Airbnb can actually streamline the process with the city, should the city work with them, thus
allowing Airbnb to collect the TOT and also set the listings of whole homes to 30+ days and not short term. As I
understand it, this automation would eliminate the need to pay a company such as Granicus for compliance monitoring
and enforcement, thus allowing the TOT collection to be more profitable for the city. Malibu and Santa Monica both
work with Airbnb to collect TOT, below is the link to the Malibu site for more information.
httos://www.malibucity.org/322/Transient-Occupancy-Tax-TOT
We sincerely hope the Planning Commission recommendations to City Council are to continue home sharing in El
Segundo, and that City Council continue the program. As I understand it, there have been virtually no complaints since
the pilot program was implemented last October.
Unfortunately we will be out of town on Thursday so will not be able to make it to the meeting.
Respectfully,
Kristin and Chris Van Heuven