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Extracted from Consolidated Report
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Findings 12 findings
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Morro Bay does not have a code enforcement officer.
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Municipal code enforcement in Morro Bay is complaint-driven.
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Complaint processing is distributed across multiple departments of the city government and therefore is a drain on city resources.
F4
Page 51
Code enforcement targets only the violation at a specific location identified in a complaint resulting in the appearance of unfairness and inconsistency.
F5
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Comprehensive tracking of all complaints and code violations by Morro Bay does not exist. 2014-2015 San Luis Obispo County Grand Jury Final Report 39 MORRO BAY MUNICIPAL CODE ENFORCEMENT: BAND-AID OR PROCESS?
F6
Page 52
Effective preventive actions or proactive management plans cannot be developed without comprehensive tracking.
F7
Page 52
City hall staff is unable to quickly and effectively provide responses to questions about the status of code violation complaints.
F8
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There is no termination process for inactive or unused vacation rental licenses.
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Page 64
The county loses revenue when property owners or managers operate unlicensed vacation rentals and do not pay relevant taxes and fees.
F10
Page 64
The county loses revenue when individuals obtain transient occupancy tax certificates and then do not use them since this effectively blocks others from obtaining such certificates and using them.
F11
Page 64
Increased enforcement of vacation rental license compliance and associated tax and fee revenue collection would generate funds to cover the costs of such activity.
F12
Page 64
The Planning Department and the Office of the Auditor, Controller, Treasurer and Tax Collector (Tax Collector) do not coordinate with one another on issues of unlicensed vacation rentals or with licensed vacation rentals which pay little or no transient occupancy taxes. 2014-2015 San Luis Obispo County Grand Jury Final Report 52 WORKING OR NOT: CHALLENGES IN ENFORCIN G COASTAL VACATION RENTAL REGULATIONS
Recommendations 7
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R1Page 52Establish a proactive managed code enforcement process.
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R2Page 52Fund and hire a full-time municipal code enforcement officer.
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R3Page 52Acquire, install and use a municipal code management software package to track all code violation complaints.
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R4Page 52Train staff on use of the new system.
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R5Page 65The Planning Department should enforce the requirement to list transient occupancy tax certificate numbers on advertised vacation rental listings.
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R6Page 65The Planning Department should create and post on its website a list of licensed vacation rentals by address so concerned individuals can confirm whether a given property is a licensed vacation rental.
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R7Page 65The Planning Department should determine and fund a way to monitor whether advertised vacation rentals are properly licensed, thus ensuring collection of related taxes and fees, which can more than cover these costs. 2014-2015 San Luis Obispo County Grand Jury Final Report 53 WORKING OR NOT: CHALLENGES IN ENFORCIN G COASTAL VACATION RENTAL REGULATIONS