"They just said, well, you know what? Fine. We're going to dig our heels in and we're just going to ban everything."
"We're paying thousands for permitting fees. I have a lot of work to do with my septic tank, and we were ready to move forward and work together as a community. And then it would just we got this final blow."
"There's been a lot of tough conversations about their livelihood because they're entrepreneurial as well. And so it hits everybody in kind of a vulnerable place."
"We've paid our fees. We've been paying TOT for the past seven years, "We have thousands of dollars invested here with the county trying to do the right thing.""
Monterey County banned short-term rentals under 30 days in unincorporated residential areas, covering Pebble Beach and Big Sur. The ban stems from a lawsuit by the Monterey County Vacation Rental Association alleging unequal treatment and regulatory overreach. Hosts report paying permit fees, upgrading properties, and investing thousands to comply, and they warn the ban could eliminate hundreds of jobs for cleaners, gardeners, and other workers. The county states the issue was debated for over a decade and that the ordinance aims to balance interests, asserting short-term rentals reduce housing availability by keeping homes vacant.
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