PROVISIONS OF THE SHORT TERM ORDINANCE PASSED ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
- Passed by Tomlinson, Olvera and Schoeffel with Viczorek and Muller opposed
- Cedes authority to the California Coastal Commission throughout Dana Point, not just in the coastal zone
- Two day rentals allowed in Dana Point
- Provides special protection to HOA’s that can prohibit them
- Ineffective enforcement provisions; penalties are not a deterrent to potential income
- Would have endangered family oriented neighborhood and encouraged outside investors
- Would have impacted long term renters that constitute over 42% of Dana Point residents, and been
- Virtually impossible to undo its provisions once allowed
RESULTS OF PRA DATA FROM PROVISIONAL SHORT TERM RENTAL POLICY IN EFFECT SINCE 2014
- 350 calls for service between 1/1/14 and 10/5/16 with 80 permitted rentals
- 33 police calls at one location
- 77 citations over an 18 month period for illegal STRs
- 49 citations for 235 reported illegal citations
- 624 nuisance violations reported to Beach Road security in 2015 and 365 in first seven months of 2016 for 40 rentals
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- People unaware of the Short Term Rental Ordinance passed by City Council
- Short Term Rental owners were specifically informed of the September 6 meeting
- Muller and Viczorek moved up the date previously announced for the second reading from Sept 21 to Sept 6, even though the City Manager specifically said that it would be best not to hold the meeting so close to the Labor Day holiday
- Residents had only 30 days to qualify a Referendum to force the city council to rescind the ordinance or put it to a vote of the people, including having referendum materials printed
RESULTS OF REFERENDUM
- Approx 2100 signatures of DP registered voters were needed on each of two petitions to qualify the referendum; over 2,100 were collected but unverified by the Registrar at time of submission
- With little time remaining, the successful collection of signatures at local grocery stores was aggressively resisted by STR owners causing store managers to disallow collection there
- A decision was made to hire signature gatherers; over 4,000 signatures on each of two petitions (8,000 signatures) were eventually submitted
- This disastrous STR policy was defeated by residents; city council voted to rescind the ordinance