Yavapai Speaks host La Rapakki talks with Mayor Cal Sheehee and Mayor Sedona Scott Jablow about the city’s short-term rental issues.
The original law allowed people to rent rooms in their own homes, but now they are out of hand where big businesses and investors buy homes and put them in bed and breakfasts. Not only does this disrupt neighbours cohesion, but it is also too high for long-term rental prices to make it impossible for service workers, teachers, healthcare workers and first responders to live in the city. I’ve done it. The affordability of a home is completely out of reach for most people.
Mayor Jablow says he feels like Sedona has become one big hotel, not the neighborhood he once had. Mayor Sheehee points out that unlike other cities, Lake Havasu doesn’t have a nearby bedroom community.
Both mayors feel that the key is local control.
