Statement I sent about Bill 9 & STR
Marilyn J Steinmetz
Anke Kirchner
I don't understand why the zoning was not changed at the time that the obvious Short Term Vacation Rental Condos were built. That is where the problem originated. I believe and understand that in true residential areas there should not be vacation rentals! On the other side, all of South Kihei Road is obviously resort area or at least 95% of it is. Residential areas are not suppose to have commercial businesses like S. Kihei Road does. The zoning should not be one condo zoned hotel resort and the one next to it is Apartment zoned, because it was not zoned properly at the time of the build. A residential area should be an entire street or section of housing, not jump to every other building. A block or two back from South Kihei Road is residential and looks residential, no short term rentals should be allowed in these areas. Do NOT make the owners of these condos pay the price for the original mistake of not getting the zoning changed when these obvious vacation short term rentals were built. Condos like Maui Vista and Kamaole Sands were obviously built for vacation rental resort use. No one puts 3 or 4 Tennis Courts and a pool for each building in work force housing. The zoning was wrong from the start, accept the mistakes that were made and lets get it changed to the correct zoning of the use that these Short Term Vacation Condos were built for at that time. The county can NOT afford to lose the tax money that these rentals supply. It will not help the locals with housing, because they do NOT want to live where they can only have one car and NO Dogs or pets. Besides all the maintenance fees are so high, not many can afford it. The owners need to charge high rent to cover the expenses and that is not going to change. Prices always go up. Don't bankrupt Maui County by doing away with Short Term Rentals and all the tax money they bring into the county of Maui. Besides all the jobs we have already lost and businesses that have gone under, because of the lack of tourism that this issue has caused. Three to five year delay will not help anyone and it won't work to solve housing shortage anyway.
Mahalo for considering these issues I have presented.
Marilyn J. Steinmetz, Full time S. Kihei Resident for 24 years.
Statement I sent about Bill 9 & STR
Marilyn J Steinmetz
Anke Kirchner
I don't understand why the zoning was not changed at the time that the obvious Short Term Vacation Rental Condos were built. That is where the problem originated. I believe and understand that in true residential areas there should not be vacation rentals! On the other side, all of South Kihei Road is obviously resort area or at least 95% of it is. Residential areas are not suppose to have commercial businesses like S. Kihei Road does. The zoning should not be one condo zoned hotel resort and the one next to it is Apartment zoned, because it was not zoned properly at the time of the build. A residential area should be an entire street or section of housing, not jump to every other building. A block or two back from South Kihei Road is residential and looks residential, no short term rentals should be allowed in these areas. Do NOT make the owners of these condos pay the price for the original mistake of not getting the zoning changed when these obvious vacation short term rentals were built. Condos like Maui Vista and Kamaole Sands were obviously built for vacation rental resort use. No one puts 3 or 4 Tennis Courts and a pool for each building in work force housing. The zoning was wrong from the start, accept the mistakes that were made and lets get it changed to the correct zoning of the use that these Short Term Vacation Condos were built for at that time. The county can NOT afford to lose the tax money that these rentals supply. It will not help the locals with housing, because they do NOT want to live where they can only have one car and NO Dogs or pets. Besides all the maintenance fees are so high, not many can afford it. The owners need to charge high rent to cover the expenses and that is not going to change. Prices always go up. Don't bankrupt Maui County by doing away with Short Term Rentals and all the tax money they bring into the county of Maui. Besides all the jobs we have already lost and businesses that have gone under, because of the lack of tourism that this issue has caused. Three to five year delay will not help anyone and it won't work to solve housing shortage anyway.
Mahalo for considering these issues I have presented.
Marilyn J. Steinmetz, Full time S. Kihei Resident for 24 years.