03-03-2019, 07:16 AM
Yesterday Big Island Video News (where would we be without David Corrigan!) posted another hearing...
http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2019/0...tal-rules/
This one in Hilo, concerning the proposed administrative rules, crafted by the Hawaii County Planning Department to regulate short term vacation rentals (STVR) on the Big Island.
Of course most of the comments are from vacation rental people and are complaints and other negative comments about the new rules. But, the most interesting to me are comments by Mary Finley which starts at 1:29:42.
Mary points out that in many places our substandard infrastructure is not set up to handle the increase in commercial activity. But more importantly how VRs are making long term rentals harder to find for local people, and as such doing more harm than the good being reaped by the few that participate in this kind of business.
People here dis county/state all the time for not being pro business, but the idea that we can let an unregulated industry overrun our long term housing inventory is more than a little issue, and far more important then all the profits being reaped by the VR industry. And face it, the VR industry is predominantly ran by more recent island transplants, and the folks hurt by the diminished long term rental inventory are locals born and raised here.
And before anyone like dis Mary, keep in mind that she, as the Housing and Energy Program Administrator at Hawaii County Economic Opportunity Council, has done more to deal with housing, and how it effects the local population than all of us put together.
http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2019/0...tal-rules/
This one in Hilo, concerning the proposed administrative rules, crafted by the Hawaii County Planning Department to regulate short term vacation rentals (STVR) on the Big Island.
Of course most of the comments are from vacation rental people and are complaints and other negative comments about the new rules. But, the most interesting to me are comments by Mary Finley which starts at 1:29:42.
Mary points out that in many places our substandard infrastructure is not set up to handle the increase in commercial activity. But more importantly how VRs are making long term rentals harder to find for local people, and as such doing more harm than the good being reaped by the few that participate in this kind of business.
People here dis county/state all the time for not being pro business, but the idea that we can let an unregulated industry overrun our long term housing inventory is more than a little issue, and far more important then all the profits being reaped by the VR industry. And face it, the VR industry is predominantly ran by more recent island transplants, and the folks hurt by the diminished long term rental inventory are locals born and raised here.
And before anyone like dis Mary, keep in mind that she, as the Housing and Energy Program Administrator at Hawaii County Economic Opportunity Council, has done more to deal with housing, and how it effects the local population than all of us put together.