Aloha to all,
I oppose the bill!!!
We are talking about 200 legal short term rentals out of 54,000 homes on Maui. Are you kidding me!
Half of the legal short term rentals are owned and operated by us local people that live and raise family’s here. We keep the money here in Maui. The hotels are not locally owned and the money doesn’t stay here on Maui. Most of the money doesn’t even stay in the country. So why do you want to support the hotels that use the best land in Maui on the best beach’s ?
We are taking about 200 rentals!
Are you kidding me?
Short term rentals are not the problem for Maui housing. It takes so long to develop land here on Maui it’s crazy. Why does it take 3 months for a building permit? Why does it take 15 plus years to get a water meter?
Is the problem 200 houses or is the real problem the county of Maui?
The only industry we have on Maui is tourism. Without tourism all of Maui will collapse! Most everyone will not have a job and will not be able to support there families. This is a fact! You may not like to hear this but this is a fact. Without the visitors money coming in to Maui our local government can’t run. Our local government will have to raise our property taxes. If you are paying $2,000 a year in property taxes it will go up to $12,000 plus. This is a fact! Look at California.
Let’s look at the real problem here.
Is it 200 short term rentals?
Are you kidding me!!
Thank you for your time.
Aloha
My wife & I own an investment property in Kihei that we vacation rent. She was born and raised on the island and worked very hard to be able to be able to own her own business on her island home. Running this rental is her full time job which allows her the freedom to also be a stay at home mom. The revenue & the profits are spent on this island. We employee workers & pay taxes as well. This is a fully legal and functioning business and shouldn't be at risk of being lost.
The sharing economy has become the "enemy" on the island when actually it brings more good than harm.
• Vacation Rentals are the number one source of revenue for Maui County in Real Property Taxes, and has been for the last three years.
• In fiscal year 2020 about 14 cents of every dollar budgeted in Maui County came from vacation rentals.
• Short term rental homes make up around 220 homes of the 54,479households on Maui. This is 1 in 248 homes.
• Vacation rentals are also the single biggest contributor to the Affordable Housing Fund for the County of Maui. They have generated $12.8 million for the fund since 2018.
This information should be shared more widely with the local community.
Yes, the island has become overcrowded with tourism. Yes, our infrastructure can't handle the daily tourist population. But there are bigger problems than vacation rentals.
There are other issues that should be addressed and regulation put in place that will have a greater positive impact on the Kama'aina population than limited STR & B&B permits. Just a few ideas (which I am sure you have heard before) are tickets/tolls for the road to Hana, Paid parking lots at the beaches, Local only days at certain beaches, heck maybe even close down each beach a certain day out of the month - Let place like Makena get a break from the sunscreen & abuse once a month, mandate electric cars for all new rental cars brought back to the island, tourism education on the planes regarding wildlife, there are so many ways to deal with the tipping point we are at.
I fully support a cap on short term rentals. At this point there are already far more visitors than residents in many areas across Maui.
It has become difficult to drive to the dentist, go to the grocery store, get to work on time, or find parking at the beach. There are residential neighborhoods that already have 30% of the homes used as B&B's or short term rentals. Condos that previously housed the working residents are now short term rentals. This has caused the prices of homes and condos to be inflated and working families to leave Maui. We are short healthcare workers, teachers, police, and many other needed professions due to lack of affordable and comfortable housing. We have overtourism now and short term rentals are only really benefitting the investors. We need a cap on short term rentals and to not renew permits for those in residential areas unless owner lives on property.
As a short term rental owner I oppose limiting the cap on vacation rentals. If you limit the vacation rentals people will have nowhere to go but the overpriced hotels. It won’t stop people from coming to Hawaii. It will force many locals out of business as the needs of someone staying on a hotel are very different than those staying on a condo. As a legitimate renter I pay my GA and TA taxes and keep up my property. If you li
It vacation rental properties there will be a glut of them on the market. Locals will not be able to afford them. Hotels will buy whole complexes to build more hotels. Without our “beds” tourism will suffer. Only the wealthy will come to the island and that will be bad for the local businesses. Monitor the renters more to make sure that we are all legitimately paying our taxes. Don’t penalize those of us who add to the islands.
Any legal short term vacation rental operation, that has a GE and TA number, and pays their taxes should be allowed to continue to operate. We depend on tourism and should do our best to help it expand.to it's fullest potential. Short term rentals help surrounding businesses on the island, and give the renter a very essential option to paying the high prices they would at a resort. Our house was flooded last week and we had to stay at a local resort that had vacancy. Our condo, ( Vacation Rental ) , was booked. It was over 900.00 a night. Our vacation rental is in the heart of south Kihei, and rents for less than 200.00 a night. This gives the renter more money in their pockets to spend at restaurants, clothing stores, groceries etc. If you are looking to possibly put a cap on short term rentals, it should be houses that rent a room out for cash, and never pay a penny in tax. Short term rental do nothing but stimulate the islands economy. As long as they are paying their taxes, I say the more legal short term rentals the better .
I support the cap on STRH in Maui County. As a resident in Waiehu, I have never seen rental cars in our residential neighborhood until recent. It was an eye opener and extremely uncomfortable seeing strangers frequent our neighborhood especially having so many children playing. Tourism is in fact a part of our economy, but at what cost to our local families. We need to manage it and this is one way that will help. The tourist population to local population is off balanced, meaning there are more vehicles on the road that are being driven by tourists, many local families are being priced out of our homes leaving more vacancies in residential neighborhoods and more possibility for STRH to appear as a result of those vacancies as many who are purchasing homes in our current market are investors. In addition, for those who remain in our residential neighborhoods, we are threatened with the potential of being surrounded by tourists in our own neighborhoods if we don't put a cap on these STRH. Many of those who rent STRH are adding to the congestion on the roads requiring a rental car rather than being at the hotel or resort areas where shuttles are available and all the amenities and tourism attractions within walking distance. Those who currently rent their homes as STHR could be renting to local families. There needs to be more access to homes for local families.
Tell us how it's fair that you continue to entertain expansion by the hotel industry on Maui yet you're determined to put the screws to local people who want to exercise their property rights within the system and offer a short term vacation rental. It seems obvious you already have your mind made up but AT LEAST don't start pulling permits or reclassifying zones to appease these multinational hotel owners who can't compete on prices or amenities.
Aloha. I am a 14 year resident of Kihei and strongly support a cap on STVRs and BnBs immediately! There are already too many, not to mention the 100s of illegal STVRs operating under your radar. We did not need more girls either… There is currently massive complex going up where Maui Lu was. Traffic, shopping, and just living has become very difficult. As a senior, I work F/T… and still have been displaced over a year due to no affordable housing for me. Please vote for the Maui People and support this cap !!! Mahalo Nui. Marianne Fisher
We support putting a cap or even lowering the number of permits for STRH properties on Maui. Please see attached letter we sent to you in June 2020 following the March 2020 live hearing. Thank you.
If you are going to cap something, cap the hotels and time shares.. One hotel has hundreds of rooms, that is not the same as the little guy renting out his/her home to a short term tenant. ridiculous bill that people think short term rentals are the issue. I have always worked and paid my way, and never complained that I couldn't live in something other than what I could afford, .now its a "gimme" society with the help of governments. A huge apartment complex was just built in Kihei, A Huge complex built across the street from Baby Beach, restraunts and stores are operating at 50% - the state closed down and people who actually wanted to work left, those renters that stayed now live rent free! While all the home owners/landlords did not receive or reduced property taxes, regardless of land use. And you're chasing the tax paying little guy that pays all those taxes, GE/TAT and property taxes? Those that think legit businesses don't pay all those taxes, think again, the state of HI contacts and runs down every single person on VRBO, compares their GE/TAT numbers to their tax records, Its the evaders that are the issue, all the sales taxes on long term rents accounted for? probably Not they're all classified as "home owners" pay no state, federal or Sales taxes... chase them...
I am a short term rental owner and I support the proposed caps. I still think there are lots of illegal rentals which also needs to be addressed.
Aloha
Kathleen
Has this agenda item been made public? Would Maui County rather pay welfare to these people running local businesses? Let’s face it the properties that are short term rentals would never be owned by those crying about the lack of housing. Let these people run their business, they pay taxes, they also bring tourists who in term bring money to the State. Which after all is what Maui County is about… Making money from their residents!!!
Aloha Council and Committee members and mahalo for the opportunity to submit testimony.
My name is Amber Coontz. I’m a resident of Lahaina, a part-time teacher with HIDOE, and a part-time restaurant employee.
I support this "BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO SHORT-TERM RENTAL HOME PERMITS ON MAUI AND LĀNA`I."
I support short-term rental home permit caps for the following reasons.
68% of Maui County residents agree “the island is being run for tourists at the expense of local people,” according to the June 2021, HTA Resident Sentiment Survey Highlights.
Maui County and the State of Hawaii do not have adequate staffing or funding to effectively enforce short-term rental accommodation regulations for existing legal and illegal vacation rental units/properties. Illegal rentals operate with impunity in residential and commercial areas. Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser, 06/30/21, https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/05/17/hawaii-news/state-tax-crackdown-garners-millions-in-unpaid-vacation-rental-taxes/
According to Hawaii's Department of Taxation, many LEGAL short-term rentals are not paying TAT/GET due to a lack of effective tax collection enforcement and a lack of coordination between state and county agencies resulting in millions of dollars in unpaid tax revenue. Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser, 06/30/21, https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/05/17/hawaii-news/state-tax-crackdown-garners-millions-in-unpaid-vacation-rental-taxes/
Maui has a severe shortage of affordable housing for residents. Short-term rentals decrease long-term housing supply for residents resulting in chronic shortages of teachers, nurses, doctors, and hospitality/tourism workers in Maui County (and statewide).
Short-term rentals artificially inflate housing and rental costs for residents. Maui’s median household income is approximately $75,000 per year. The median home price is approximately $800,000 and one-bedroom apartment rentals start at $1,800 per month.
HTA Annual Visitor Research Reports from 2018 and 2019 show that visitors who stay in resorts and hotels spend more money on food, activities, and accommodation than visitors who stay in short-term vacation rentals and timeshares. Resorts and hotels also create more full-time employment opportunities for residents than short-term rentals.
In addition to the short-term rental home permit cap, Maui County should establish tax rebates and other financial incentives for owners of long-term rentals for full-time residents.
Rather than shutting down legal permitted vacation rentals that employ local residents and comply with extensive county rules and regulations, perhaps effort should be placed in shutting down illegal vacation rentals who do not pay taxes and diminish long term rental opportunities for local residents. I support keeping existing vacation rentals and extending their permits at times of renewal, if they continue to maintain the high standards of their permit requirements. I also support denying future vacation rental applications without affecting the current inventory.
Aloha to all,
I oppose the bill!!!
We are talking about 200 legal short term rentals out of 54,000 homes on Maui. Are you kidding me!
Half of the legal short term rentals are owned and operated by us local people that live and raise family’s here. We keep the money here in Maui. The hotels are not locally owned and the money doesn’t stay here on Maui. Most of the money doesn’t even stay in the country. So why do you want to support the hotels that use the best land in Maui on the best beach’s ?
We are taking about 200 rentals!
Are you kidding me?
Short term rentals are not the problem for Maui housing. It takes so long to develop land here on Maui it’s crazy. Why does it take 3 months for a building permit? Why does it take 15 plus years to get a water meter?
Is the problem 200 houses or is the real problem the county of Maui?
The only industry we have on Maui is tourism. Without tourism all of Maui will collapse! Most everyone will not have a job and will not be able to support there families. This is a fact! You may not like to hear this but this is a fact. Without the visitors money coming in to Maui our local government can’t run. Our local government will have to raise our property taxes. If you are paying $2,000 a year in property taxes it will go up to $12,000 plus. This is a fact! Look at California.
Let’s look at the real problem here.
Is it 200 short term rentals?
Are you kidding me!!
Thank you for your time.
Aloha
Subject: STR/B&B Permits
Aloha,
My wife & I own an investment property in Kihei that we vacation rent. She was born and raised on the island and worked very hard to be able to be able to own her own business on her island home. Running this rental is her full time job which allows her the freedom to also be a stay at home mom. The revenue & the profits are spent on this island. We employee workers & pay taxes as well. This is a fully legal and functioning business and shouldn't be at risk of being lost.
The sharing economy has become the "enemy" on the island when actually it brings more good than harm.
• Vacation Rentals are the number one source of revenue for Maui County in Real Property Taxes, and has been for the last three years.
• In fiscal year 2020 about 14 cents of every dollar budgeted in Maui County came from vacation rentals.
• Short term rental homes make up around 220 homes of the 54,479households on Maui. This is 1 in 248 homes.
• Vacation rentals are also the single biggest contributor to the Affordable Housing Fund for the County of Maui. They have generated $12.8 million for the fund since 2018.
This information should be shared more widely with the local community.
Yes, the island has become overcrowded with tourism. Yes, our infrastructure can't handle the daily tourist population. But there are bigger problems than vacation rentals.
There are other issues that should be addressed and regulation put in place that will have a greater positive impact on the Kama'aina population than limited STR & B&B permits. Just a few ideas (which I am sure you have heard before) are tickets/tolls for the road to Hana, Paid parking lots at the beaches, Local only days at certain beaches, heck maybe even close down each beach a certain day out of the month - Let place like Makena get a break from the sunscreen & abuse once a month, mandate electric cars for all new rental cars brought back to the island, tourism education on the planes regarding wildlife, there are so many ways to deal with the tipping point we are at.
Mahalo,
Florian Goldhammer
I fully support a cap on short term rentals. At this point there are already far more visitors than residents in many areas across Maui.
It has become difficult to drive to the dentist, go to the grocery store, get to work on time, or find parking at the beach. There are residential neighborhoods that already have 30% of the homes used as B&B's or short term rentals. Condos that previously housed the working residents are now short term rentals. This has caused the prices of homes and condos to be inflated and working families to leave Maui. We are short healthcare workers, teachers, police, and many other needed professions due to lack of affordable and comfortable housing. We have overtourism now and short term rentals are only really benefitting the investors. We need a cap on short term rentals and to not renew permits for those in residential areas unless owner lives on property.
As a short term rental owner I oppose limiting the cap on vacation rentals. If you limit the vacation rentals people will have nowhere to go but the overpriced hotels. It won’t stop people from coming to Hawaii. It will force many locals out of business as the needs of someone staying on a hotel are very different than those staying on a condo. As a legitimate renter I pay my GA and TA taxes and keep up my property. If you li
It vacation rental properties there will be a glut of them on the market. Locals will not be able to afford them. Hotels will buy whole complexes to build more hotels. Without our “beds” tourism will suffer. Only the wealthy will come to the island and that will be bad for the local businesses. Monitor the renters more to make sure that we are all legitimately paying our taxes. Don’t penalize those of us who add to the islands.
Aloha,
Please see attached testimony.
Any legal short term vacation rental operation, that has a GE and TA number, and pays their taxes should be allowed to continue to operate. We depend on tourism and should do our best to help it expand.to it's fullest potential. Short term rentals help surrounding businesses on the island, and give the renter a very essential option to paying the high prices they would at a resort. Our house was flooded last week and we had to stay at a local resort that had vacancy. Our condo, ( Vacation Rental ) , was booked. It was over 900.00 a night. Our vacation rental is in the heart of south Kihei, and rents for less than 200.00 a night. This gives the renter more money in their pockets to spend at restaurants, clothing stores, groceries etc. If you are looking to possibly put a cap on short term rentals, it should be houses that rent a room out for cash, and never pay a penny in tax. Short term rental do nothing but stimulate the islands economy. As long as they are paying their taxes, I say the more legal short term rentals the better .
I support the cap on STRH in Maui County. As a resident in Waiehu, I have never seen rental cars in our residential neighborhood until recent. It was an eye opener and extremely uncomfortable seeing strangers frequent our neighborhood especially having so many children playing. Tourism is in fact a part of our economy, but at what cost to our local families. We need to manage it and this is one way that will help. The tourist population to local population is off balanced, meaning there are more vehicles on the road that are being driven by tourists, many local families are being priced out of our homes leaving more vacancies in residential neighborhoods and more possibility for STRH to appear as a result of those vacancies as many who are purchasing homes in our current market are investors. In addition, for those who remain in our residential neighborhoods, we are threatened with the potential of being surrounded by tourists in our own neighborhoods if we don't put a cap on these STRH. Many of those who rent STRH are adding to the congestion on the roads requiring a rental car rather than being at the hotel or resort areas where shuttles are available and all the amenities and tourism attractions within walking distance. Those who currently rent their homes as STHR could be renting to local families. There needs to be more access to homes for local families.
Tell us how it's fair that you continue to entertain expansion by the hotel industry on Maui yet you're determined to put the screws to local people who want to exercise their property rights within the system and offer a short term vacation rental. It seems obvious you already have your mind made up but AT LEAST don't start pulling permits or reclassifying zones to appease these multinational hotel owners who can't compete on prices or amenities.
Aloha. I am a 14 year resident of Kihei and strongly support a cap on STVRs and BnBs immediately! There are already too many, not to mention the 100s of illegal STVRs operating under your radar. We did not need more girls either… There is currently massive complex going up where Maui Lu was. Traffic, shopping, and just living has become very difficult. As a senior, I work F/T… and still have been displaced over a year due to no affordable housing for me. Please vote for the Maui People and support this cap !!! Mahalo Nui. Marianne Fisher
We support putting a cap or even lowering the number of permits for STRH properties on Maui. Please see attached letter we sent to you in June 2020 following the March 2020 live hearing. Thank you.
I meant to select I support the STR cap!! mahalo, pamela campbell
If you are going to cap something, cap the hotels and time shares.. One hotel has hundreds of rooms, that is not the same as the little guy renting out his/her home to a short term tenant. ridiculous bill that people think short term rentals are the issue. I have always worked and paid my way, and never complained that I couldn't live in something other than what I could afford, .now its a "gimme" society with the help of governments. A huge apartment complex was just built in Kihei, A Huge complex built across the street from Baby Beach, restraunts and stores are operating at 50% - the state closed down and people who actually wanted to work left, those renters that stayed now live rent free! While all the home owners/landlords did not receive or reduced property taxes, regardless of land use. And you're chasing the tax paying little guy that pays all those taxes, GE/TAT and property taxes? Those that think legit businesses don't pay all those taxes, think again, the state of HI contacts and runs down every single person on VRBO, compares their GE/TAT numbers to their tax records, Its the evaders that are the issue, all the sales taxes on long term rents accounted for? probably Not they're all classified as "home owners" pay no state, federal or Sales taxes... chase them...
We oppose limiting short term private use condos in the county. We own 2 condos and it is a significant source of our retirement income
This needs to happen. We are being driven out of our home, our native land, for profit of vacation rentals!
I support limiting the amount of visitors to theHawaiin Islands.
I am a short term rental owner and I support the proposed caps. I still think there are lots of illegal rentals which also needs to be addressed.
Aloha
Kathleen
Has this agenda item been made public? Would Maui County rather pay welfare to these people running local businesses? Let’s face it the properties that are short term rentals would never be owned by those crying about the lack of housing. Let these people run their business, they pay taxes, they also bring tourists who in term bring money to the State. Which after all is what Maui County is about… Making money from their residents!!!
Aloha Council and Committee members and mahalo for the opportunity to submit testimony.
My name is Amber Coontz. I’m a resident of Lahaina, a part-time teacher with HIDOE, and a part-time restaurant employee.
I support this "BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO SHORT-TERM RENTAL HOME PERMITS ON MAUI AND LĀNA`I."
I support short-term rental home permit caps for the following reasons.
68% of Maui County residents agree “the island is being run for tourists at the expense of local people,” according to the June 2021, HTA Resident Sentiment Survey Highlights.
Maui County and the State of Hawaii do not have adequate staffing or funding to effectively enforce short-term rental accommodation regulations for existing legal and illegal vacation rental units/properties. Illegal rentals operate with impunity in residential and commercial areas. Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser, 06/30/21, https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/05/17/hawaii-news/state-tax-crackdown-garners-millions-in-unpaid-vacation-rental-taxes/
According to Hawaii's Department of Taxation, many LEGAL short-term rentals are not paying TAT/GET due to a lack of effective tax collection enforcement and a lack of coordination between state and county agencies resulting in millions of dollars in unpaid tax revenue. Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser, 06/30/21, https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/05/17/hawaii-news/state-tax-crackdown-garners-millions-in-unpaid-vacation-rental-taxes/
Maui has a severe shortage of affordable housing for residents. Short-term rentals decrease long-term housing supply for residents resulting in chronic shortages of teachers, nurses, doctors, and hospitality/tourism workers in Maui County (and statewide).
Short-term rentals artificially inflate housing and rental costs for residents. Maui’s median household income is approximately $75,000 per year. The median home price is approximately $800,000 and one-bedroom apartment rentals start at $1,800 per month.
HTA Annual Visitor Research Reports from 2018 and 2019 show that visitors who stay in resorts and hotels spend more money on food, activities, and accommodation than visitors who stay in short-term vacation rentals and timeshares. Resorts and hotels also create more full-time employment opportunities for residents than short-term rentals.
In addition to the short-term rental home permit cap, Maui County should establish tax rebates and other financial incentives for owners of long-term rentals for full-time residents.
Mahalo for the opportunity to submit testimony.
I support a moratorium/strict cap on short term rental homes.ENOUGH ALREADY!!!
Rather than shutting down legal permitted vacation rentals that employ local residents and comply with extensive county rules and regulations, perhaps effort should be placed in shutting down illegal vacation rentals who do not pay taxes and diminish long term rental opportunities for local residents. I support keeping existing vacation rentals and extending their permits at times of renewal, if they continue to maintain the high standards of their permit requirements. I also support denying future vacation rental applications without affecting the current inventory.