York Citizens for Responsible Short-Term Rental (STR) Regulation
Neighborhood Concerns
York Citizens for Responsible Short-Term Rental Regulation is a group of concerned York residents who want to implement a simple, sensible and enforceable short-term rental policy that appropriately balances the rights of all York homeowners. We support local tourism and want our citizens to have the option to utilize their homes as short-term rentals. At the same time, we want to relieve the unfair property tax consequences created by some short-term rentals, minimize safety risks to tourists and residents, and manage the rapid growth of short-term rental properties in our community.
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From the author: "Short-term rentals as they were originally marketed, [the idea] was, you have a spare bedroom, you can rent that out to people and make some extra money. It’s a better use of space when otherwise that room would just go empty. Someone coming into the community as a traveler can get a sense of the landscape because they know someone already. They’re staying with them. The person who lives there can benefit more directly from tourism, and I still think that’s a great idea. But the way that short-term rentals have transformed over time—using the three [cities] that I studied Flagstaff, Arizona; St. George, Utah; Bozeman, Montana; as examples—it’s upwards of 90 percent of short-term rentals that are the entire home. Most of those are offered up for more than half a year. It’s not someone who’s just in an economically precarious situation, it’s someone who doesn’t live in a place seeing an investment opportunity and buying that up with the express purpose of housing tourists. I see those very differently. And I think the first one should be protected. I think that’s a great source of income potential, and you can monitor over time [if] maybe that gets abused in some places. But I think that’s very different when you’re renting out a room and you actually actively live in a place versus renting an entire place."