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Revised BCPOA Short Term Rental Standard

With direction of the board, the BCPOA Zoning Committee created a draft standard. In October, the board didn’t have a majority supporting the standard, and sent it back to committee for further work. The primary objections were to provisions 1.d. (a grandfather or amnesty clause, felt to be unfair) and 1.b. (an “adjacent” clause, felt to create too much potential for commercialization). The October draft is here:

The committee’s latest markup is here:

The board has deferred action on this version until after the Dec. 12th Planning & Zoning hearing considers the PRC amendment.

Short Term Rental Survey Results

As we stated before, the latest STR survey results were marred by a number of obvious “sock puppets” with nearly-identical responses purporting to be from different parts of the canyon. This makes the numerical results not worth reporting. Apologies to everyone who submitted for the wasted time; it is sad that this is the level of civility that now passes for normal.

However, a few of the questions preserve some directional validity despite the additional “contributions” and the written responses to the survey are an interesting read, so I’ve shared them below.

New Coronavirus Assistance Email List

BCPOA has created an email list dedicated to matching COVID19 assistance requests with volunteers – for example, shopping for people who are high risk and want to stay out of town. You can sign up for the list here: http://bcpoa.net/mailman/listinfo/canyon-assist_bcpoa.net This is an open discussion list so feel free to jump in with information, requests, or offers of help.

BCPOA’s long-running general list is: http://bcpoa.net/mailman/listinfo/canyon_bcpoa.net This list is announce-only, to keep traffic low. We typically use it for announcements of BCPOA events like the General Meeting, pending County zoning actions, the occasional stray dog or cow, and (very rarely) fire information.

Zoning Regulation 14.2 Repeal – Maps

Clarification:

The maps that follow are not definitive; they only indicate parcels that might be subject to 14.2, and the determinations are not necessarily exhaustive.

The BCPOA map identifies small parcels that are not in known subdivisions, but does not check for common ownership as of 1971, which is what counts for the regulation.

The County map shows parcels in common ownership as of today. Ownership today is not the decision criteria for density rights in 14.2, so this is only relevant to the extent that ownership today is indicative of ownership in 1971.

Unfortunately, digital records only go back to the mid-1980s, so it’s difficult to improve on this, except by manually searching the titles for a particular parcel.

BCPOA Map

Here’s a pair of maps of parcels potentially affected by the repeal of 14.2:

BCPOA identified 134 undeveloped parcels under 36 acres, most of which are adjacent, but we have not investigated ownership as of 1971. Therefore these parcels overestimate the impact of 14.2:

BCPOAmap14-2_v2

Above, small parcels that might be affected, if they were in common ownership as of 1971, are colored green (if they now have a structure, according to GIS data) and red (if they are undeveloped).

County Map

Separately, the Planning Department identified small parcels in common ownership. Their methods are described in Section14.2_GIS Analysis.MEMO. This map omits several parcels that we know to be subject to 14.2, so we suspect that it underestimates the extent of the impact. [It turns out that the omitted parcels were obscured by road lines; the county showed a revised map that revealed the missing parcels.]

countyMap14-2

Presumably, the true impact lies somewhere between these two maps – probably closer to the county version.

Further reading: 14.2 Repeal – Background