April 14 2025 CDS Study Session Briefings

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Survey on Short Term Rentals 359 If you mess with short term rentals you will devestate 2/4/2025 11:22 AM the economy. Everyone eating and shopping is up for the weekend. 360 Taking away short-term rentals will significantly 2/4/2025 11:20 AM decrease the desirability and value of homes in Suncadia,which is a community directed to vacation/short term use. Any rules restricting short-term rentals in Kittitas County more broadly should account for the different community in Suncadia. 361 Short term rentals only hurt the community.Allows 2/4/2025 10:46 AM people and corporations from outside the community to buy up property and drive up rent prices for community members. Needs to be highly regulated and limited. 362 I'm strongly against hurting anyone's ability to make 2/4/2025 10:45 AM a living via hard work and entrepreneurship. I also am all for increasing the commerce in our community, and the amount of people who these rentals bring here is good for all our businesses and. Restricting these short term rentals seems to be an unamerican stance. 363 I'm not sure how the county would 2/4/2025 10:43 AM equitably enforce a cap on the number of STRs in a neighborhood. General noise ordinances are good and should be enforce but not targeting the STRs for special noise treatment,except the fine should go to the owner to encourage responsible renting in the future. Generally I think both second homes and STRs are a suck on local resources and drive up prices. Permitting and fees would help create parity with hotels and ensure professionalism. I assume they pay lodging taxes already. Consider a tax on second homes. 364 1 believe that if there 2/4/2025 10:33 AM aren't more regulations then housing prices will continue to go up and our community will deteriorate. 365 Not in PLS also why is current board all male??And current preside how many terms does he 2/4/2025 9:55 AM get??Seems too many 366 Good tax source from stay taxes and other fees. 2/4/2025 9:38 AM 367 I've owned my property for 40 years taxes have gone up 2/4/2025 9:06 AM insurance has gone up dues have gone up we should have the opportunity to recoup these costs. People want a moment away by renting a cabin or home this gives them a moment to recoup. Not everyone has this but for a moment they can. 368 When everyone started buying STRs during the pandemic in our 2/4/2025 8:57 AM neighborhood, our home values went way up. Few people lived in our neighborhood full time before anyway, so having more STRs doesn't impact the community feel because it was just empty houses before. 369 2/4/2025 8:56 AM AirDNA.co indicates Ellensburg has 132 short-term rentals. Notably,this does not indicate whether it only includes City limits, or the whole zip code(any STIR with an Ellensburg address). It also does not differentiate(without paying for data)how many are"whole home"versus room rentals. Even if these were all in city limits, it would mean only roughly 1.5%of ALL Ellensburg housing stock(as of 2018 OFM estimates) would be used for this purpose-and many additional units have come online in the past 7 years in the Urban Growth Area. Units primarily used for short-term rentals are detached single-family homes, which even as a college town still make up a disproportionate share of Ellensburg's housing supply(-50%). Large lot single-family dwellings with large footprint homes are not affordable housing, so any such STR's cannot be eating into truly affordable housing supply. These figures also make no differentiation for whether units are rented year- round, or seasonally. Select communities in Kittitas County likely have a far greater portion of housing units dedicated to STR's(Suncadia etc.); AirDNA also indicates a whopping 832 STR's in Cie Elum. The County should reflect on whether the nature of destination resort communities outside of incorporated towns-NOT true cities or Places in a traditional sense of human development, nor historically established Kittitas County towns -should be regulated into retroactively providing affordability via local market regulation of a private landowner use of residential property. In general, STIR regulations are often a solution in search of a problem outside of resort communities.Any countywide requirement to register/regulate STR's should be evidence-based (Is this actually a problem;where; when; and how do we know beyond personal impressions or anecdotes?), and narrowly constricted to the geographic distribution of the problem (fix the issue where it occurs). The County should also strongly consider who 92/96