It seems Monterey is not so happy with short-term housing like Airbnb.
Somehow, Car Week happened long before Airbnb existed. It'll survive.
Jordan Rimpela said:It seems Monterey is not so happy with short-term housing like Airbnb.
The article mentions why Monterey, and many other cities and politicians, don't like AirBnB. And I will shut my mouth here so as not to flounder.
z31maniac said:Jordan Rimpela said:It seems Monterey is not so happy with short-term housing like Airbnb.
The article mentions why Monterey, and many other cities and politicians, don't like AirBnB. And I will shut my mouth here so as not to flounder.
Quoted for truth. Big +1 To Mr. Maniac.
But you have to admit that it's partly a problem of their own making. Monterey is a tourist town, yet they won't allow any more hotels. What else was going to happen?
The regulation of short-term rentals dates back to the early 1990s when voters passed an amendment that prohibited any additional hotels from being built, said Elizabeth Caraker, the housing and community development manager for the city, during an earlier interview. That’s when absentee homeowners began renting out their houses to visitors for fewer than 30 days to fill the vacuum.
They're trying to grow tourism but they're also trying to keep the place exclusive and rich. The way the ski towns like Telluride deal with this is by building a tourist town just outside the money enclave. Telluride Mountain Village ain't cheap, but it's a place to build 10,000 square foot mansions, hotels and parking lots without letting the little people run rampant in the main town.
Besides, even if you can't stay in Monterey, Pacific Grove/Seaside/Sand City are all basically the same city. We stayed in a Pacific Grove hotel last week when we were there, but we do a short-term house rental in PG when we're at the Miata Laguna Seca event. It's by far the most economical way to deal with a staff of 7-8 people. I don't know how it's booked, I think through a central agency.
So there's demand. If the city wants the revenue and some control, then they need to come up with a way to meet it or someone's going to find a way. iTunes did far more to curb music piracy than the Napster/MP3.com lawsuits ever did by offering a legit alternative.
Great, so people will rent their driveweays for year-long leases so people can park RVs on them. That'll show the snobs!
Loss of tax revenue? It's pretty easy for a local government to enact a modest tax for short term rentals, and legislate that rentals be registered for tax enforcement.
The 'housing crisis' sounds like a crisis of their own making that predates short-term rentals.
This is why 'Race Wars' took place at an abandoned military airstrip. 
I look at DC downtown during the summer with everybody arriving on a coach.
I occasionally see articles about Eurotrash defiling everything from the Trevi fountain to Concentration Camps and have to wonder.
To be honest as super cool as these shows are the car should be the star not some overpriced Garden of Daphne locale that adds nothing to the experience for me.
Funnily I know someone who ran away to Telluride to work in a restaurant that has one of those classy names from the 80s so she could escape a bad relationship in DC. Yeah one tourist trap to another. She's miserable obviously.
In reply to nderwater :
Wouldn't be California without the phrase 'housing crisis.'
I do not know if I ever went to the City of Monterey !
Mostly stay a little north of there or at the track ,
But Monterey has a lot more going on than just the car week , and I am sure that people air B+B their houses all summer ,
Many cities are doing the same thing....
If i was rich and bothered by the unwashed masses and couldn't shoo them away with my outsize influence in local affairs i would have no recourse but to cry into my money. 
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