New Map Shows Extent of Vacation Rentals in Ocean Beach

Members of the sub-committee on short-term vacation rentals of the Ocean Beach Planning Board unveiled a new map that clearly shows the extent of the rentals across the community. The map was put together by Kevin Hastings and was first publicly shown at the OB Town Council meeting on May 24th.

Each marker on the map represents a vacation rental. The different colors represent the different online sites that lease them.

The sub-committee estimates that there are at present a total of 450 short-term vacation rentals in Ocean Beach, after cross-checking rentals in the various online sites. John Ambert, chair of the OB Planning Board, stated during the meeting that with 7600 dwelling units in the community, vacation rentals accounted for 6%  – which is significant.

A former lawyer and current grassroots activist, I have been editing the Rag since Patty Jones and I launched it in Oct 2007. Way back during the Dinosaurs in 1970, I founded the original Ocean Beach People’s Rag - OB’s famous underground newspaper -, and then later during the early Eighties, published The Whole Damn Pie Shop, a progressive alternative to the Reader.

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