H-13 Correspondence – Gilbert Bates
From: Gilbert Bates [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, March 7, 2022 1:59 PM
To: CityClerk <[email protected]>; Elise Roberts <[email protected]> Cc: Sherri Bates <[email protected]>; '[email protected]' <[email protected]>; Hayley Bates <[email protected]>
Subject: Opposition to STR proposal
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Hello:
We are 35 Year residents of the peninsula and have bad experiences with short term rentals. Twenty five feet from our bedroom window (that backs to the alley) is an STR open deck patio that gets rented regularly to Air BNB guests. During the summer, the short term occupants make the most of our shoreline location and party on the deck well into the late evenings. Consequently I’ve had many arguments with guests who state “its their right to be there” when I ask them to take their parties inside.
Please don’t increase the number of allowed STR properties. Instead I feel you should require the absentee owner to maintain a sign on the front and rear of each STR with a location ID and landlord phone number to call if the noise gets out of hand. A second number should be posted for the appropriate person at LBPD who can register and take action on the complaint if the owner doesn’t.
As a Real Esate devleoper I am required to post signs on our new developements with contact information if dust is seen leaving the property. Dust contol penalties can run into the thousands of dollars. Noise pollution is as serious of an issue as dust is.
Let’s put such a policy into place for Long Beach STR as well.
Gil Bates