By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – The days of uncollected or overdue food and beverage taxes along with weaknesses in the administration of vacation rentals are over as the city of Yachats, under new management gets busy with the business of putting its house in order. After learning at the December meeting of the city’s […]
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Although it has rental licenses available east of Highway 101, Lincoln County says it won’t issue them until all appeals end
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Jay Kay and Heidi Olsen of Poulsbo, Wash. would just like to use their 1½-year-old house between Yachats and Waldport as a vacation rental when they’re not visiting the Oregon coast themselves. They are one of 16 property owners on a Lincoln County waiting list for six licenses potentially available in […]
Judge will rule that Lincoln County can use business licenses to regulate vacation rentals, but expects appeal
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Lincoln County’s hotly contested ordinances regulating vacation rentals do not fall under Oregon’s land-use laws and the county can oversee them with its business licensing program, a circuit court judge said this week. Lincoln County pro-tem judge Joseph Allison said during a hearing Monday that he has drafted most of his […]
Years-long legal fight over Lincoln County’s vacation rental regulations finally gets court hearing next week
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews After more than a year of legal wrangling, some decisions may be coming this summer on the legality of Lincoln County’s short-term rental regulations in unincorporated areas. A Lincoln County circuit judge has scheduled two days of hearings next week to hear oral arguments by attorneys for 20 vacation rental […]
Renters in small Waldport apartment complex search for places to live after new owner says they will become vacation rentals
By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews WALDPORT – One apartment is occupied by a single mother with a 9-year-old. Another apartment is home to a disabled couple. A married couple with three children lived in the third. They all rely on some sort of rent assistance to live in the modest four-unit apartment building on Southwest Corona […]
Lincoln County commissioners, seven city councils will vote Thursday how to lift ban on motel, vacation rental and campground use
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com All motels, vacation rentals, RV parks and campgrounds in Lincoln County closed since March 23, could reopen in two weeks under a proposal to be considered Thursday by county commissioners and seven city councils. The county and cities raced to close recreational lodging and camping after the first weekend of Oregon’s Spring […]
Lincoln County moves deeper into vacation rental issues, including possibility of a license limit
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County commissioners are looking into stricter regulation of vacation rentals – including the possibility of limiting the number of licenses. Commissioners authorized their staff last week to spend the next four months digging deeper into “best practices” of regulating vacation rentals, mapping the location of existing licensed rentals, trying […]
Yachats council discusses vacation rentals, keeping cap but looking more favorably on transfers
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council took its second step Wednesday in a months-long process of examining its vacation rental regulations, possibly warming up to ideas on ways to allow more licenses and transfer them. A two-year pilot program that caps the number of vacation rental licenses at 125 and regulates their use ends […]