01-02-2018, 05:00 PM
Big Island tourism is way up, County would rather have the economic benefit than admit that current tourist accomodations are inadequate to the demand.
Enforcement is "complaint-driven". Given a copy of the Airbnb TAT data, it would be trivial to generate a complaint for every single one. I'm betting State would tell County to drop it, because rail.
Problem is, County would find ways to retaliate against the complainant, because obviously they're the problem, not the actual rule/law violations (which were generating perfectly good revenue).
Enforcement is "complaint-driven". Given a copy of the Airbnb TAT data, it would be trivial to generate a complaint for every single one. I'm betting State would tell County to drop it, because rail.
Problem is, County would find ways to retaliate against the complainant, because obviously they're the problem, not the actual rule/law violations (which were generating perfectly good revenue).