Short-term rentals community working group
As part of our ongoing efforts to understand the impact of our short-term rental regulations, our volunteer community working group helps provide ongoing insights on community impacts from short-term rentals.
It is a platform to foster mutual understanding and dialogue between different community perspectives on short-term rentals. Input received will help evolve our short-term rental regulations.
Interested in receiving the latest news on the Community Working Group and our short-term rental regulations? Sign up to receive updates.
As part of our ongoing efforts to understand the impact of our short-term rental regulations, our volunteer community working group helps provide ongoing insights on community impacts from short-term rentals.
It is a platform to foster mutual understanding and dialogue between different community perspectives on short-term rentals. Input received will help evolve our short-term rental regulations.
Interested in receiving the latest news on the Community Working Group and our short-term rental regulations? Sign up to receive updates.
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Announcing our Short-term Rentals Community Working Group
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this link20 Nov 2020Thank 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.
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.
Project timeline
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Applications open
Short-term rentals community working group has finished this stageOctober 13 - 31, 2020
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Applications under review
Short-term rentals community working group has finished this stageNovember 2 - 5, 2020
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Members selected & notified
Short-term rentals community working group has finished this stageNovember 9 - 13, 2020
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Virtual working group meetings
Short-term rentals community working group is currently at this stageNovember 15, 2020 - October 31, 2021
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About our short-term rental regulations
- Short-term rental regulations were enacted by Council on April 18, 2018 and enforcement took full effect on September 1, 2018.
- A person many only obtain one short-term rental business licence for the residence in which they reside.
- Businesses and commercial operators are ineligible to apply for a short-term rental licence.
- We enforce against operators who are not in compliance with regulations.
- Business licenses are suspended as a result of operators not meeting principal residence requirements, failing to have strata or landlord permission to operate, operating illegal, unsafe or nuisance dwellings or failing to provide the requested documentation.
- in 2019, nearly 73 per cent of short-term rental operators in Vancouver obtained a business licence – one of the highest compliance rates in North America
Contact us
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External Facilitator
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Chief Licence Inspector