To the editor: Your article concerning the coastal San Luis Obispo group 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 Courtroom dominated in favor of 1 native zoning ordinance that prohibited renting properties 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 group to largely tourist-centered ones that make up a majority of our downtown. Gone are the 4 full-service stations (together with mechanics) and plenty of different shops that benefited the group.
Many people tried to limit the numbers of trip leases 30 years in the past as we noticed our faculty enrollment decline. Now’s the time (once more) for Cayucos to deal with this downside.
We’d like extra housing. We should always assist individuals who work right here have a spot to dwell. Limit transient leases to business-zoned areas. Property prices are too excessive, and plenty of rich individuals who suck up all our housing don’t actually care about our group.
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 group.
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 gentle.
It’s not simply Cayucos that’s changing into a coastal “ghost city”; it’s taking place quickly in lots of California’s coastal cities and cities, together with Santa Barbara.
The California Coastal Fee ought to rethink its determination 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
