San Dieguito Water District - one item
Joint City & SDWD - three consent items and one regular item
Council Meeting
Three Presentations
Three Consent Items
Four items on the Regular Agenda
Make appointments to the Youth Commission
Appeal concerning Planning commission appeal of the Walgreens drug store on Encinitas Blvd.
Introduction of an Ordinance to require recycling of construction and demolition materials
Council discussion and direction on whether to include on the Nov. ballot the 2% Transient Occupancy Tax on short term vacation rentals.
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Seems like a late night at City Hall.
ReplyDeleteI sure hope they vote to put the 2% ToT tax on short term rentals. I am sure it will get over 67% in November.
ReplyDeleteYou play you pay. Including landlords making huge profit by slowly turning our town into Mission Beach
The question is whether or not to bring it to a vote again, as it failed in June, thereby leaving Short-term rental paying less than hotels, motels and B&B's.
ReplyDeleteLet them all pay the same. 2% which is a very small cost for nice beaches they get to enjoy. If we don't import sand, we will have ocean up against Seawall armorment. That does not sound like a nice day at the beach for those staying in short term rentals.
ReplyDeleteLast anonymous comment is incorrect. The sand tax only pays for Moonlight beach sand importation and not for bluff areas.
ReplyDeleteThe Council can lick its wounds, but the Voters have spoken.
ReplyDeleteThe only issue left to question for November might be whether or not the 10% TOT on hotels is now still appropriate.
Eight percent seems fair.
ReplyDelete10% to 12% seems more fair.
ReplyDeleteAceti spoke at oral communications and asked them to put it on the ballot again.
ReplyDeleteI think Hotels should only have to pay 8% TOT, as well.
Short term rentals that are not hotels or B&B's, also have to pay a $150 PER YEAR "permit fee," which is like another tax.
According to the law, Council and public employees are not supposed to use taxpayer monies to advocate how to vote in elections. I don't think the pro argument should have been written by the City. The anti-argument was not written. It was not well noticed. The person who said he was going to write the NO argument and rebutal didn't end up doing so.
We don't need so much sand, every year. Because some is good, doesn't mean that more is better.
Surfing conditions would be better with less sand. The City supports the Chamber of Commerce and the Coastal Coalition. As publically subsidized agencies, they should not be sand lobbiests.