We want our elected officials to support stopping all vacation home/transient rentals in our residentially zoned areas. Stand up for the people.
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September 9, 2016
The city council continues to dodge our emails while our neighborhoods turn into hotel corridors. They think if they ignore us long enough we will just pack up and go away. We are going to keep making their lives difficult until they finally prioritize residents over developer profits.
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I am against Vacation Home rentals. My wife and I have lived with one in our back yard for 4 years. When there are guests, parties are nightly, loud obnoxious people walking into our back yard smoking and walking their pets, then not cleaning up after them. Our community is a patio home with an HOA and specific rules that does not allow us to install a fence to assist with protecting our property. There was a law passed not allowing Vacation Rentals - why change it to satisfy a few.
I want to KNOW who my neighbors are! We have campgrounds and hotels on the Island. Support our businesses!
Stop rentals in residential neighborhoods. Limit rentals to business districts. If we're going to go down this path then even bother with creating zoning laws? Did our Town Board completely forget that we have a huge waterfront hotel, motels and campgrounds which could use their support? If they are bound and determined to make Grand Island a destination, then they are using their efforts the wrong way, in my opinion. And do we really want GI to be the next bustling East Amherst? Hilton Head? OBX? Really?
Homes that are in residential areas and want to short term rent should have to file for different zoning or temporary permits. Our neighbors can't change their home structure significantly without permit and opportunity for public comment, this is the same! I don't live in a home in a residential zoned neighborhood to live next a vacation property.
Businesses belong in property that is zoned for business. Zoning is critical to how a town runs it's business and the laws should be enforced. NO to any form of short term rentals, 30 day minimum.
Tourist Homes are businesses and then need to be in areas zoned for business. It is simple. The only way to protect Residentially zoned areas is to say No.
I sold my duplex on Ward Park road because of all the problems of the transient home next door.
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We want our elected officials to support stopping all vacation home/transient rentals in our residentially zoned areas. Stand up for the people.
Updates
September 9, 2016
The city council continues to dodge our emails while our neighborhoods turn into hotel corridors. They think if they ignore us long enough we will just pack up and go away. We are going to keep making their lives difficult until they finally prioritize residents over developer profits.
32 Comments
We bought our home 37 years ago, it was a great place to raise our 4 children, very peaceful.. NOW we have Tourist Homes 2 doors down from us..We are Not happy.. different people (clans) coming and going a few times a week. I don't feel as safe as I once did. WHAT is happening to our wonderful island??? Keep these homes in the business sections.
I am against Vacation Home rentals. My wife and I have lived with one in our back yard for 4 years. When there are guests, parties are nightly, loud obnoxious people walking into our back yard smoking and walking their pets, then not cleaning up after them. Our community is a patio home with an HOA and specific rules that does not allow us to install a fence to assist with protecting our property. There was a law passed not allowing Vacation Rentals - why change it to satisfy a few.
I want to KNOW who my neighbors are! We have campgrounds and hotels on the Island. Support our businesses!
Stop rentals in residential neighborhoods. Limit rentals to business districts. If we're going to go down this path then even bother with creating zoning laws? Did our Town Board completely forget that we have a huge waterfront hotel, motels and campgrounds which could use their support? If they are bound and determined to make Grand Island a destination, then they are using their efforts the wrong way, in my opinion. And do we really want GI to be the next bustling East Amherst? Hilton Head? OBX? Really?
Homes that are in residential areas and want to short term rent should have to file for different zoning or temporary permits. Our neighbors can't change their home structure significantly without permit and opportunity for public comment, this is the same! I don't live in a home in a residential zoned neighborhood to live next a vacation property.
Businesses belong in property that is zoned for business. Zoning is critical to how a town runs it's business and the laws should be enforced. NO to any form of short term rentals, 30 day minimum.
Tourist Homes are businesses and then need to be in areas zoned for business. It is simple. The only way to protect Residentially zoned areas is to say No.
I sold my duplex on Ward Park road because of all the problems of the transient home next door.
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We bought our home 37 years ago, it was a great place to raise our 4 children, very peaceful.. NOW we have Tourist Homes 2 doors down from us..We are Not happy.. different people (clans) coming and going a few times a week. I don't feel as safe as I once did. WHAT is happening to our wonderful island??? Keep these homes in the business sections.