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Advocacy Update
With the closing of the legislative session there have been a few updates to the most important of bills we are engaged in.
AB 518 (Ward D) Low-impact camping areas.
This bill would specify that, for purposes of that act, a special occupancy park does not include a low-impact camping area, as specified, that is located in a county that has enacted an ordinance, as specified, authorizing low-impact camping. The bill would define a “low impact camping area” to mean any area of private property that provides for the transient occupancy rental of a temporary sleeping accommodation, as defined, for recreational purposes that is not a commercial lodging facility and meets specified requirements. The bill would require the county in which the low-impact camping area is located to enforce some of those requirements relating to waste disposal and quiet hours, as specified.
Position: Oppose
Issue(s): 1. Requesting amendments to include state or county permit numbers on listing when marketed through OTA.
2. Requesting that RVs be stricken from the bill.
Status: Passed House moving to Senate
SB 346 (Durazo D) Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator.
This bill would authorize a local agency, defined to mean a city, county, or city and county, to enact an ordinance to require a short-term rental facilitator, as defined, to report, in the form and manner prescribed by the local agency, the assessor parcel number of each short-term rental, as defined, during the reporting period, as well as any additional information necessary to identify the property as may be required by the local agency. The bill would authorize the local agency to impose an administrative fine or penalty for failure to file the report, and would authorize the local agency to initiate an audit of a short-term rental facilitator, as described. The bill would require a short-term rental facilitator, in a jurisdiction that has adopted an ordinance, to include in the listing of a short-term rental any applicable local license number associated with the short-term rental and any transient occupancy tax certification issued by a local agency.
Position: Support if Amend
Issue(s): Requested amendment to include RV parks, campgrounds, outdoor resorts.
Status: Passed in Senate - ordered for a third reading.
AB 813 (Solache D) Mobilehome parks: termination of tenancy.
The Mobilehome Residency Law governs the terms of conditions of residency in mobilehome parks and authorizes the management of a mobilehome park to terminate a tenancy for, among other reasons, conduct by the homeowner or resident upon the park premises that constitutes a substantial annoyance to other homeowners or residents.
This bill would instead authorize the management to terminate a tenancy for conduct by the homeowner or resident upon the park premises that constitutes a substantial annoyance to other homeowners, residents, park staff, or park employees.
Position: Support if Amend
Issue(s): Requested amendment to include Special Occupancy Parks.
Status: Stalled. Moved to a 2 year bill
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