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Kittitas County commissioners direct short-term rental committee to draft regulations after survey shows 60% support
Summary
After a 60/40 survey result favoring some regulation, the county directed its short-term rental committee to proceed with drafting possible regulations and to consider a joint public meeting with the Planning Commission.
Kittitas County commissioners asked the county—ommittee studying short-term rentals to proceed toward drafting potential regulations after staff presented survey results showing 895 responses and about 60% in favor of some regulatory approach.
Jeremy Johnson, a planner with Kittitas County Community Development Services, told commissioners the survey ran 60 days and that respondents ranked concerns in this order: noise, occupancy compliance, annual permit requirements, safety inspections and tax collection. Johnson said staff also prepared a comparison matrix of 10 counties west of the Cascades; five do not adopt local short-term rental rules and instead rely on state law (identified in the presentation as RCW 64.37), while five jurisdictions have local ordinances ranging from brief use-permit requirements…
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