Enforcement due to Transit Vacation Rentals to increase
200 people gather at Iao therater to discuss the vacation rental situation. Almost nobody had anything bad to say about TVRs. Only county Planning Director Jeff Hunt had a discouraging word, and even he was trying to be conciliatory. It is really sad that the county with three past mayor’s that this administration has chosen to be so unreasonable. It would have been in everyone best intererst to have a reasonable time line to draft fair regulations. But the county has chosen to threaten to fine and jail time for any existing vacation rentals.
All but a few of the island’s estimated 1,100 short-term vacation rental businesses are facing extinction Jan 1. Hunt was asked to explain why the county could suspend enforcement of the zoning law for years, then turn around and enforce it rigorously.
Hunt pointed to the number – 1,100. When enforcement was suspended pending passage of a bill that would have regularized TVRs. With that shift the new council filed a bill that had been under review for years. It would have made it possible for many (but not all) existing TVRs to get legal.
By scrapping the bill, most of the 1,100 operating businesses were left either with no way to get legal or no way to get legal by the end of this year. After three past mayor’s that pretty much allowed vacation rentals this is kind of a radical change to agreesive behaviour.
That brought out the crowd, because many fear they will lose their incomes or even their properties with a deadline of Jan. 1. The Maui Vacation Rental Association is preparing a lawsuit to block the county from proceeding with enforcement, but it has not gone to court yet.
The situation is giving Maui’s visitor industry a global black eye, said panel member Vanessa Ghantous, executive vice president for operations at McCoy Customer Travel. I have been hearing that many visitor’s will not be coming back to Maui. The option other than condos or hotels fit the life style of many travelers. Funny around the world vacation rentals are just standard issue so what is Maui saying to the world.
People who made plans to stay in TVRs as much as a year ago are being told their reservations cannot be honored. Hotels are either full or too expensive, said Ghantous, and Internet commentary is full of complaints about Maui.
“If people have a good time, they tell one person. If they have a bad time, they tell 10. Word is definitely spreading.” David Dantes, president of MVRA, said the county had strung operators along and then suddenly hung them out to dry, with a very short time to react.
He said the operators have learned that the zoning enforcement division is going to change its rule so that merely finding an advertisement for a TVR would be evidence that it is operating without a permit.
Dave DeLeon, who works for the Realtors Association of Maui, said the visitor market has changed over the decades, in favor of small rentals, and “the county needs to change or lose that market.”
“The county has made a complete mess of a worthy component of the visitor industry,” he said. The market is driven by lots of people with lots of money who want to come here,” he said. Stay tune for further developments. To view Maui Wailea real estate check this link
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