First Short Term rentals now Tik Tok !! Is nothing sacred ?
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday that would give TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app used by about 170 million Americans or face a ban
So we’ve spent millions to make the town more attractive to tourists and now we attack a large segment of that industry run by small operators . Brilliant.
City News says May 1st. It's reported that council has said Nov 1st. The provincial minister has firmly said May 1st, no exceptions. Council has told staff to get it to the province by March 31st. Once the province gets hold of the request, there'll be no changing the minister's directive. This boondoggle isn't resolved yet. Rushing in, as council has done, is going to cause some unanticipated misery. Keep on beating the thing, it's still possible to kill that golden goose. Especially with the type of "leadership" that Tofino has.
Let’s opt out of the RMI designation and defund Tourism Tofino. With the assistance of the provincial government and our council Tofino could become the new Zeballos. Affordable housing for all !!
The resort and hotel owners are no doubt delighted. Reports from Victoria have simple hotel rooms this summer booking at $600 per night. I'm sure that the hotel and resort owners are very grateful to those on council who voted to protect their "interests".
On another topic: I've been watching a great docuseries on Netfix: "Narcos". Check it out. It tells the story of Pablo Escobar buying off politicians in Columbia with "gifts" of cocaine, prostitutes, luxury automobiles, and tons of cash.... to get legislation favorable to his cartel passed into law. Very eye opening program, based on a true story.
Seems to be some confusion around exactly what the rules are. I've heard that this will only impact Tibbs and Elk, but have also heard that it impacts any Vacation Rental that is not a principal residence. Anyone know for sure?
For example, if somebody's principal residence is a house in Jensen's Bay, and they own a second house in Gibson Heights where they have a long term tenant in the basement suite, and use the upstairs as a vacation rental, can they still use the Gibson Heights place as a VR under the new rules?
I don't have a horse in this race either way... just curious.
Sounds like it will have some implications for non-owner rentals (apart from Eik and Tibbs), but unclear exactly what yet. A tenant may have to be the "owner" of the rental business, license in their name and be responsible for it, etc. Actually would be great for tenants to get some cash out of it! A brave and tough decision by council that won't have a ton of impact, but moving in the right direction.
The big take away I see is this is the first council who has not taken "Staff" recommendations. That is a huge step forward. Council is supposed to represent the residents and in this case they listened to everyone and not a dominant select group. Will it change anything who knows but its a start. Currently we have no bylaw and a lot of good STR bylaws that are not enforced ever and change is needed . Tofino does need help going forward. Maybe this can be a direction to get the community back as a community and some form of balance that doesn't tip the scale to one favourable group or the other.
Go figger..... When you have the recommendations coming from people who run a legal vacation rental, staff who run legal vacation rentals, and former CAO with a legal vacation rental what do you expect?
and former mayor blatantly operating an illegal nightly rental lodge claiming it was a student dormitory while telling staff it was legal when called out on it. claiming we're all "students of life"..........great politics..
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First Short Term rentals now Tik Tok !! Is nothing sacred ?
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday that would give TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app used by about 170 million Americans or face a ban
So we’ve spent millions to make the town more attractive to tourists and now we attack a large segment of that industry run by small operators . Brilliant.
City News says May 1st. It's reported that council has said Nov 1st. The provincial minister has firmly said May 1st, no exceptions. Council has told staff to get it to the province by March 31st. Once the province gets hold of the request, there'll be no changing the minister's directive.
This boondoggle isn't resolved yet. Rushing in, as council has done, is going to cause some unanticipated misery.
Keep on beating the thing, it's still possible to kill that golden goose. Especially with the type of "leadership" that Tofino has.
Let’s opt out of the RMI designation and defund Tourism Tofino. With the assistance of the provincial government and our council Tofino could become the new Zeballos. Affordable housing for all !!
The resort and hotel owners are no doubt delighted. Reports from Victoria have simple hotel rooms this summer booking at $600 per night.
I'm sure that the hotel and resort owners are very grateful to those on council who voted to protect their "interests".
On another topic: I've been watching a great docuseries on Netfix: "Narcos". Check it out. It tells the story of Pablo Escobar buying off politicians in Columbia with "gifts" of cocaine, prostitutes, luxury automobiles, and tons of cash.... to get legislation favorable to his cartel passed into law. Very eye opening program, based on a true story.
Hisssss…that’s the sound of the Tofino real estate bubble deflating !
Seems to be some confusion around exactly what the rules are. I've heard that this will only impact Tibbs and Elk, but have also heard that it impacts any Vacation Rental that is not a principal residence. Anyone know for sure?
For example, if somebody's principal residence is a house in Jensen's Bay, and they own a second house in Gibson Heights where they have a long term tenant in the basement suite, and use the upstairs as a vacation rental, can they still use the Gibson Heights place as a VR under the new rules?
I don't have a horse in this race either way... just curious.
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/short-term-rentals/principal-residence-requirement#PR%20Requirement
If you vote for clowns expect a circus!
Sounds like it will have some implications for non-owner rentals (apart from Eik and Tibbs), but unclear exactly what yet. A tenant may have to be the "owner" of the rental business, license in their name and be responsible for it, etc. Actually would be great for tenants to get some cash out of it! A brave and tough decision by council that won't have a ton of impact, but moving in the right direction.
The big take away I see is this is the first council who has not taken "Staff" recommendations.
That is a huge step forward. Council is supposed to represent the residents and in this case they listened to everyone and not a dominant select group. Will it change anything who knows but its a start.
Currently we have no bylaw and a lot of good STR bylaws that are not enforced ever and change is needed . Tofino does need help going forward.
Maybe this can be a direction to get the community back as a community and some form of balance that doesn't tip the scale to one favourable group or the other.
Go figger..... When you have the recommendations coming from people who run a legal vacation rental, staff who run legal vacation rentals, and former CAO with a legal vacation rental what do you expect?
and former mayor blatantly operating an illegal nightly rental lodge claiming it was a student dormitory while telling staff it was legal when called out on it. claiming we're all "students of life"..........great politics..
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