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Originally Posted by Normal
No straws, just science and math
More guests equals more wear and tear. No question.
By the way, 20 people? Hilarious Understatement
Try 300,000 people in 2024! Are you suggesting that that mass of people doesn’t affect anything? You would be 100% incorrect.
Why are you against the abusers of the system paying for their abuse? There should be no beneficial free ride for those who continually abuse what we all pay for!
I’m sure the computer system knows who they are. Just run a query and bill accordingly. Abusers steal from the rest of us.
We all win if amenities are cheaper and usage costs are evenly distributed.
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Usage costs are evenly distributed now and, as I wrote above, the cost of amenities does not currently impact your amenity fee.
20 people was YOUR cutoff to define “abuse” and to begin adding an additional charge. IF the 300,000 number is accurate, how many of those represent guests in excess of your limit of 20? My guess is very, very few. I know my guests account for 12 of those and there a heck of a lot of grandchildren in that number as well.
If each of those passes was for a one week stay (remember, you are tackling the short-term renter problem) then that would be equivalent to fewer than 6,000 permanent residents. Compared to a population of nearly 150,000 that is about 4%. So ALL guest passes add about 4% BUT, not all those are the “abuser” so divide 4% accordingly to get a very small impact.
And again, the number of guests does not affect the largest budget lines. A fraction of 4% might affect a small portion of the budget but has no affect on the amount of your amenity fee anyway.