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.
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We live at the base . We have lived between two STRs for years. It’s pretty seasonal and so we rarely have problems, but one neighbor rents his house to hunters who run the house like a lodge (including parking a trailer that they cook lives in) every fall for a few months. Other neighbor is a corporation out of Canada and if we have problems, they are not interested in addressing them. Again, problems are rare and do not effect our peace, however a lot of this would be mitigated with regulation that require a host on site for all STRs. It’s how they do it in Hawaii and other states. It’s how they are keeping homes from being bought by hotels/corporate Airbnb folks. And I think this is the new regulation in Bozeman or something like it. I could be wrong.
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Michelle, if you are in the Base Area then that is where STRs are explicitly allowed. The larger problem is the rapid growth over the last couple of years of non-owner-occupied STRs (NOOSTR) in the main part of the Canyon, the AE district. I agree that there should be a host/owner on site. Bozeman has ruled that no more NOOSTR (investor) STRs will be permitted. Because the existing NOOSTRs had played by the established rules the City Commission wisely chose to grandfather those STRs and in such a way that they will gradually disappear. We should be talking about regulations that allow actual resident/owners to reap part-time benefit from STRs without opening the floodgates to outside investors (like your Canadian “neighbors”).