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Dillon Beach residents say vacation home owners have been exploiting loopholes in Marin County’s coronavirus restrictions to continue short-term rentals.
The sheriff’s office has told residents that it is not actively enforcing the rental restrictions because of limited resources, leaving residents such as Carole Holley feeling left out to dry.
“What we’re seeing out there is people are coming in on Friday at 4 p.m. and leaving Sunday at 11 a.m. and then someone comes in on Sunday at 4 p.m.,” Holley said. “These rentals are going back to back. All these people are coming into our community and we’re sheltering in place.”
This is not the only rural community in the US with this problem.
There are many regulations, advisories, etc. in all municipalities and states in the US. Most of them, unfortunately, have no teeth. In some cases even gentle reminders have been met with hateful speech and even violence so there is some understandable hesitation.
I understand the frustration with wealthy urbanites flocking to small communities and overrunning their resources but we have traveled locally quite a bit since our shelter in place was lifted. We drive to a vacation home with a week of groceries, we don’t leave the property at all and then we drive home, stopping only for gas. I actually feel guilty for not spending any money in a local grocery store or bait shop. Cleaners may be placing themselves at limited risk by coming into contact with surfaces but transmission is clearly being led by person to person contact.
Well, this thread is about hosts finding loopholes to continue to str when it has been disallowed in their area, not about people travelling responsibly.
