Short-term rentals community working group

We held our fourth Working Group meeting in June to discuss the steps we take to ensure all short-term rentals operators in Vancouver comply with our regulations.

We encourage you to review our meeting summary and check our our short-term rentals webpage, where we have more details on our pathway to compliance.

Our final Working Group meeting will be held later this Fall. We hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable summer!

We held our third Working Group meeting on April 12 and discussed support for stratas with short-term rentals.

Staff shared updates on the City’s Prohibited Buildings Registry, which restricts the auto-issuance of short-term rental licences for all SRO and Rental 100 buildings across the City and more than 45 strata plans. Any strata whose bylaws do not permit short-term rentals in the building may contact the short-term rentals office via their property management company to have their building added to the list. Please review the Meeting Summary for more details.

Please note that Rebecca Apostl and Aihua Ji are no longer participating in the Working Group.

Earlier this year, we lost a member of our working group, Ulrike Rodriques. Her family has shared information here: http://remember.ulrike.ca. Ulrike’s passion for her community and short-term rental regulations was well known and we are saddened to lose her voice.

We are pleased to share that Kristie Starr joined the working group in January.

Our second meeting was held remotely on February 1, which included a discussion regarding areas of confusion with our short-term rentals program, and suggestions to make the program more clear. Details can be found in the Meeting Summary.

Thank you to everyone who applied to join our Working Group. We had a lot community interest and received many applications.

We are pleased to announce 14 volunteers have agreed to participate in the group for the next year:

• Rebecca Aposti
• Patrick Audley
• Karen Dar Woon
• Noam Dolgin
• Rob Ferguson
• Kenny Hammond
• Aihua Ji
• Kelly Riopelle
• Ulrike Rodrigues
• Rafe Sacks
• Rob Takeuchi
• Mo Vaziri
• Hanna Wolff
• Eldon Wong

Members will meet virtually approximately five times over the next year with the first meeting to take place on November 30, 2020. Meeting minutes will be posted here so we encourage you to check back regularly for more updates or sign up for our newsletter.

Selection of Members

For the success of the Community Working Group, we felt it was important to have an independent and objective external mediator review all applications, select members and facilitate meetings. Details on the selection process can be found in our Terms of Reference and FAQs.