Salt Spring Island Cottages Property Owners Survey Results, 2019
· Salt Spring Island · Miscellaneous · 2019
Original Trust document
· 60 KB
· SHA-256 01bd046fdf09407e…
5,463 characters of machine-extracted text. Extraction is automatic and can be wrong; the original governs.
Topics: Bylaw enforcement · Housing & affordability — our classification, not the Trust's.
Extracted text (beginning)
Affordable Rental Housing Cottages - Bylaw No. 512 - Property Owner Survey 1 / 5 36.36%8 63.64%14 Q1 In addition to a single-family dwelling, do you currently have a seasonal cottage on your property? Answered: 22 Skipped: 0 TOTAL22 Yes No 0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100% ANSWER CHOICESRESPONSES Yes No Affordable Rental Housing Cottages - Bylaw No. 512 - Property Owner Survey 2 / 5 19.05%4 23.81%5 57.14%12 Q2 Do you currently rent out or otherwise use your seasonal cottage for full-time residential use? Answered: 21 Skipped: 1 TOTAL21 Yes No Not Applicable 0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100% ANSWER CHOICESRESPONSES Yes No Not Applicable Affordable Rental Housing Cottages - Bylaw No. 512 - Property Owner Survey 3 / 5 33.33%7 4.76%1 4.76%1 57.14%12 Q3 If you don’t already do so, will the adoption of Bylaw No. 512 encourage you to rent out or otherwise use your existing cottage for full- time residential use? Answered: 21 Skipped: 1 TOTAL21 Yes No Maybe Not Applicable 0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100% ANSWER CHOICESRESPONSES Yes No Maybe Not Applicable Affordable Rental Housing Cottages - Bylaw No. 512 - Property Owner Survey 4 / 5 27.78%5 33.33%6 38.89%7 Q4 If you don’t already have a seasonal cottage on your property, will the adoption of Bylaw No. 512 encourage you to construct a cottage for full- time residential use? Answered: 18 Skipped: 4 TOTAL18 Yes No Maybe 0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100% ANSWER CHOICESRESPONSES Yes No Maybe Affordable Rental Housing Cottages - Bylaw No. 512 - Property Owner Survey 5 / 5 Q5 Is there anything further you would like the LTC to know about Bylaw No. 512, full-time residential use of cottages, or affordable housing on Salt Spring Island more generally?Alternatively, you can contact Island Planner Jason Youmans at ssiinfo@islandstrust.bc.ca or 250-537-9144. Answered: 9 Skipped: 13 #RESPONSESDATE 1Please allow more full-time housing options to be available for islanders by passing this bylaw9/12/2019 7:05 PM 2This bylaw would allow owners who already have a cottage that they are renting out full time, not seasonal, to be in compliance and therefore not helping with new cottages for rent. This puts the property owner on the hook for affordable housing, who is to say what that rent may be. How do you control that? I can see an increase in Property taxes on said properties even if you don't build and rent out a cottage, being penalized so to speak. And who knows if the said properties even have enough water to support a second full time dwelling not to mention now becoming a small water system and the responsibilities and laws around that. Not to mention the high cost of construction and low return in rent. I don't see many people taking on the many challenges involved in this. 9/7/2019 6:17 PM 3We have a cottage we have always rented as if it was for full-time use. At tenant’s discretion.9/3/2019 4:18 PM 4too bad you took your time on this, most do not have the money to do this now when the trust told us this c
First 3,000 characters. Open the original for the whole document.