Save Colorado Residential Communities

A Residential Neighborhood

Vote “YES” ✓ to Prohibit STRs

Protect our Residential Neighborhood, Today and Tomorrow.

Rosewood Hills Community has been given a valuable opportunity to determine by the vote our community's culture, values, and ownership experience. Don't let out of town, state or country STR/AirBnB investor owners, LLC Corporations, Wall Street investors, big corporations like Hilton-Marriott or BlackRock, confuse the issues about Rosewood Hills recently proposed STR Amendment.

Pro STR says “Lands Rights” and “They're taking away our rights.”

Lands rights is based in U.S. zoning laws for almost of 120 years in our history. There was a great reasoning behind these laws. Mixing residential with commercial, industrial, and agricultural, have had negative impact to quality of life by introducing hazards that are threatening to residential populations. Hotels/Motels are typically zoned commercial.

Pro STR says “Your HOA is Not Fair or Overreach.”

Please refer back to your HOA letter of decision for the process in order that put fourth this opportunity for owners vote. This was driven by owners for owners to address concerns and request for some action and the opportunity to vote on this issue of concern.

Pro STR says “Prohibiting Short Term Rentals is extreme.”

That is not our perception based on well documented STR history and negative impact STRs have had in our Residential zoned housing market and communities. This has resulted in a significant movement to correct the negative impact by banning STRs in order to get back to the intended residential buyer use and or have seen strictly mandate legal owner hosted “only” with other intensive restrictive rules in order to have realtime, direct on site management, due to excessive residential violations and nuisances.

Pro STR says “Why not Grand Fathering laws or conditions?”

This topic may be considered before or after a law, ordinance or Amendment has been adopted in the best interests of parties.

Pro STR says “You will get more money for your house when you sell.”

The truth, in this case they speak on both side of the aisle. Online STR data draws attention away from STRs contributing to lower housing inventory, creating shortage, resulting in high house prices. The facts are corporations and investors own more residential zoned real estate than ever before in history. It is estimated that they occupy 30-40% of our residential housing market and growing. We as residential home owners and future Americans buyers should not be competing for housing against these domestic and foreign investment institutions.

Pro STR says “We improve neighborhoods.”

False. They may improve a house for their high volume Hotel “guest” renters but at same time they have increased noise, light, traffic, operating hours nuisances / violations and have blocked another community member and future neighbor from owning a home. Why don’t these investors go to blighted areas and gentrify / improve those communities?

Homes not Hotels

Communities not Corporations

Residents not short term Renters

Reasons Why Short-Term Rentals / AirBnB are Harmful to Residential Zoned Communities

Housing Shortages Resulting in Affordability Issues: Short-term investor/owners reduce the housing inventory availability for our local residential buyers / renters, making it harder for residents to find housing opportunities / options. Resulting, many times in forced moves from their community. This force is a loss of valuable community members and families, deeply devastating our neighborhoods.
Noise, Nuisance, Violations and Crime: High head counts and turnover of STR “guests” with unregulated operating hours leads to excessive noise, light population, Increased traffic, parking issues, disrupting and violating residential zoned neighborhoods rights. This kind of rental activity has even resulted in crimes commit at these STRs. This is why this type of rental activity is normally designated for commercial zoning.
Safety Concerns for Residential Neigborhoods: Short-term rentals are not subject to the same safety, fire and health regulations as hotels, potentially putting Neighbors, Neighborhoods, “guests” and wildlife at high risk.
Impact on Local Services & Commercial Lodging: These STRs cause high volume, transient population strains local services and infrastructure, including waste management, parking, and emergency services. In addition, Local Commercial Lodging ( job creators ) operated with 24hr on management are unable to be priced competitively with these unregulated STR lodgings.
Loss of what Made our Town and Town Character: The influx of STR tourists into our Neighborhoods, leads to the commercialization of our residential zoned neighborhoods, eroding housing, character, and culture of local communities.

In Conclusion

We hope that you, as Rosewood Hills Owner / Residents, Seasonal Owners / Residents, Property / Lot Owners / Future Residents, will consider the following information, speak to your neighbors and do some of your own research. Be very aware with big STR / AirBnB money dominate and manipulate social media and the algorithms. When researching this topic use terms like "Vacation rentals," "Short term rentals," and then "AirBnB." You will find your best resources based on cities that have banned or strictly required on site legal owner hosted only and in commercial zoning to stop the abuse and devastation to local residential housing markets.

Important Note:

Woodland Park recently put in place ordinance for un hosted STR must be in Commercially Zoned Areas Only.
Manitou, Crystal park only allows 6 month and up rentals only.
Denver Colorado 2016 must be primary residency hosted-licensed only.
Steam Boat Springs, Co Banned and strictly restricted
Durango, Co Banned and strictly restricted
And many more in Colorado and Nationally.

SAVE Colorado Residential Communities, Not for profit but for Preservation of Colorado Residential Community Housing for Residents.

disclaimer: savecrc.com is our organizations opinion and view. You are to do your own research to find your own opinion on this topic.