Metro Vancouver Hotel & Short Term Rental Market Discussion

[seamusmcduff]

Edit: this was in response to chowhou

It's not at all the same argument. I don't understand how you think living next to a hotel is equivalent to living in a hotel. The level of separation is completely different. Sharing walls/roofs/ceilings/hallways with a hotel (airbnbs) is completely different than sharing a street with a hotel building. There are legitimate privacy and noise concerns with having individual units in a building being converted to airbnb, that simply don't apply to living next to a hotel.

If someone is renting out the unit above you as an airbnb and people are partying every night, the impacts of that are far greater than if people are partying in an entirely different building next to where you live. Hotel users use a property differently than a resident would, which is fine, but the uses need to be separated to take that into consideration.

I don't even have an issue with a building having both hotel and residential uses I'm the same building, as long as it's planned that way (eg. Having top floors residential and bottom floors hotel or vice-versa, and having adequate noise mitigation between the two uses)