Marr said in a phone call Wednesday the city has been looking at how short term rentals are impacting housing in other cities like Encinitas. There are also concerns that short term rentals are impacting California’s housing crisis. That moratorium was later extended by the council with an exemption for “owner occupied home sharing short term rentals” and was supposed to expire on Nov.
Last year, city council members instituted a moratorium on short term rentals in the city for 45 days. “I hope that a permitting system can be implemented, so that my parents can have the income when they’re not able to stay in Costa Mesa,” Allison continued.ĭuring the pandemic, short term rental complaints went up in Costa Mesa. Nobody who was under 25 was allowed to simply rent it,” said Dagart Allison, whose parents used to rent out their home for short term use. “We have understood all the issues of the parties and we even saw that there were people trying to book the house for parties and we started to implement a system such as a minimum of seven days stay to keep parties from happening. They also say they’re self regulating to weed out the party goers. Other residents have gone to city council meetings in support of short term rentals, arguing the business provides an alternative form of income– especially amid a pandemic that drove unemployment up. “There was a gun related incident and that really scared a lot of the neighbors who suddenly started asking questions about what is happening to this property in their neighborhood,” Marr said in a Wednesday phone call. The newly adopted ordinance also references “gun related incidents including a drive-by shooting” among the complaints. Martin said the disturbances stopped after the ban on short term rentals and encouraged council members to keep the moratorium. I was so tempted actually to turn on my garden hose and let him have it from our backyard, but I know that would be assault and battery,” she said. “I was calling the police on this animal house every week. “The house behind us directly adjacent to our backyard became a short-term rental and the parties started Thursday, Friday, Saturday into Sunday morning - Wild Animal House crazy parties,” said longtime resident Flo Martin at Tuesday’s meeting. Some residents are frustrated with the short term rental industry, which they say attracts a young, noisey, rowdy and party-loving group that takes up parking in family neighborhoods. Some local cities have adopted ordinances to regulate short term rentals with permits and taxes, others have banned short term rentals completely.Ĭosta Mesa City Council members are hoping the ban on short term rentals will give them time to implement regulations on these types of rentals in response to neighborhood complaints. 19 in a 6-0 vote, with Councilman Erik Peterson absent, and finalized it on Tuesday evening.
The council originally approved the measure Oct. Under the newly adopted rules, operators have until Mato register with the city, and if they still fail to do so by the end of the year they will be delisted from platforms like AirBNB.
Huntington Beach also briefly discussed their short term rental regulations this week, approving a set timeline for when rental operators had to register with the city. Some residents say the rentals decrease their quality of life in the neighborhoods, while others say it’s a good way for homeowners to increase their income. The issue of short-term rentals has been landing on the agendas of city councils all over Orange County in recent years and during the pandemic. “I was actually really surprised by how many of the Airbnbs function in that manner and so we sort of carved those out of the moratorium and said, ‘okay, that that one case seems okay,’ but we still feel like we need to press pause on what’s happening right now,” she said. Costa Mesa Continues Ban on Short Term Rentals City Council Vows to Come Back With Regulations Closeĭuring Tuesday’s meeting, City Councilwoman Andrea Marr said that since the first moratorium went into effect about a year ago, a number of property owners said they operated their rentals while still being on the property, with rules in place to curb disturbances, like partying.