{"id":3240,"date":"2022-10-19T21:31:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T04:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2022-10-20T21:40:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T04:40:06","slug":"homeowners-residents-fight-over-the-future-of-tahoe-townships-vacation-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/10\/19\/homeowners-residents-fight-over-the-future-of-tahoe-townships-vacation-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeowners, residents fight over the future of Tahoe Township’s vacation homes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ariana Bindman<\/pre>\n
(PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA) Oct 19, 2022 \u2014 Tahoe families offered impassioned testimonials in Nevada hotel ballrooms, homes in the area continue to sell for over $5 million \u2014 ultimately raising the question of who, exactly, is entitled to living there.<\/p>\n
By now, it\u2019s no secret that the proliferation of short-term rentals \u2014 and luxury developments \u2014 is significantly altering Tahoe\u2019s bucolic landscape. On Oct. 13, Douglas County\u2019s Board of County Commissioners convened at the Hard Rock Hotel in Nevada to consider eliminating Tahoe Township’s Vacation Home Rental (VHR) program, an ordinance that allows locals to rent their houses to tourists visiting the area.<\/p>\n
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The program, which is projected to rake in $4 million in transient occupancy and tourism surcharge taxes each year, along with $800,000 in fees, is quite lucrative for the county, but it has become a contentious issue in the small Douglas County community, which borders the southeastern section of the lake.<\/p>\n
As the region grapples with\u00a0a dire housing crisis<\/a>\u00a0that now sees\u00a0half of its workforce live elsewhere<\/a>, some homeowners revealed at the Oct. 13 meeting that they depend on the VHR program to survive. Their testimonies were so passionate that the board decided to keep the program.<\/p>\n
Even though they\u2019re an economic boon for the county, and a livelihood for some homeowners, vacation home rentals are a nuisance to some longtime residents. According to Douglas County\u2019s website, there are at least five complaints about them each week, and while there are currently 532 active VHR permits in the Tahoe Township region, there are only two full-time code enforcement officers. During the Oct. 13 meeting, as residents took to the floor to discuss the impact VHRs have on the community, the tensions in Tahoe Township became clear.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe everyone has a right to purchase a home in Lake Tahoe. With that said, not everyone can afford to own in Lake Tahoe,\u201d said one resident. \u201cIt\u2019s a national treasure, not a financial expectation,\u201d she continued, arguing that the VHR program doesn\u2019t actually help local homeowners.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we’re seeing a skewed set of comments here, because the handful of people who are here who are making money through VHRs obviously have a huge vested interest in continuing that income stream,\u201d said another resident, a father living in the area. \u201cBut I’d like to speak for those people who want to have communities of actual full-time residents rather than just revolving doors of folks who are short-term renters.\u201d<\/p>\n
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“The program, which is projected to rake in $4 million in transient occupancy and tourism surcharge taxes each year, along with $800,000 in fees, is quite lucrative for the county”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3242,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions\/3242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}