To the editor: Your article concerning the coastal San Luis Obispo neighborhood of Cayucos fast becoming a town of vacation rentals describes the issue of residential motels in our residentially zoned neighborhoods.
Many people have believed for years that these companies will destroy our city. In 1991, the California Supreme Court docket dominated in favor of 1 native zoning ordinance that prohibited renting houses to transient occupants for fewer than 30 days.
Actual property brokers promote property with the carrot that the house is usually a worthwhile enterprise. We’ve misplaced companies serving the neighborhood to largely tourist-centered ones that make up a majority of our downtown. Gone are the 4 full-service stations (together with mechanics) and lots of different shops that benefited the neighborhood.
Many people tried to limit the numbers of trip leases 30 years in the past as we noticed our college enrollment decline. Now’s the time (once more) for Cayucos to deal with this drawback.
We’d like extra housing. We should always assist individuals who work right here have a spot to stay. Limit transient leases to business-zoned areas. Property prices are too excessive, and lots of rich individuals who suck up all our housing don’t actually care about our neighborhood.
Jan Lewis, Cayucos
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To the editor: My vital different and I’ve been vacationing in Cayucos for nearly 20 years. The city has not misplaced its neighborly spirit.
This July, we had been staying at a seaside rental when my vital different had a medical emergency. Because the ambulance was taking him to the hospital, the daughter of our rental’s proprietor got here out and insisted on driving me to the hospital in San Luis Obispo. Once we had been completed on the hospital, she and her husband picked us up and drove us again to the place we had been staying.
Such nice folks in an amazing neighborhood.
Patricia Kepple, San Diego
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To the editor: Thanks for bringing the problems of short-term leases within the coastal zone to mild.
It’s not simply Cayucos that’s turning into a coastal “ghost city”; it’s occurring quickly in a lot of California’s coastal cities and cities, together with Santa Barbara.
The California Coastal Fee ought to rethink its resolution to permit short-term leases in residential neighborhoods in coastal areas earlier than we lose extra housing for native employees and neighbors.
Dennis Thompson, Santa Barbara