I also live on Goldhunter Ct. and rarely let my children play in front anymore because of the amount of traffic. In addition, the ABB guests drive too fast and take up lots of the limited parking.
I am truly disappointed with the city's lack of response and attention to this issue.

What ARE Foster City's rules/laws/regulations regarding AirBnB-type businesses being operated in residential areas? If they are allowed, then there should at least be hotel and/or sales taxes collected, and rules limiting max occupancy and parking allowed... And if FC doesn't have any policies yet, then I think we need to wake up to the modern world -- it's not going away and these problems will only get further out of hand!

I also live on Goldhunter Court, and I understand 119 Goldhunter is owned by an absentee landlord who is unavailable and disengaged from the community and the neighbors.

Tenants of 119 Goldhunter frequently have 4 cars 2 deep parked in their driveway, in addition to at least 2 more cars spilling out into the streets.
One negative impact is parking and it is exacerbated because the house sits at the end of a culdesac and we already, by design, have very limited parking.

Our next door neighbor couldn't safely park in her driveway because some of the tenants were partially blocking her driveway (thank you FCPD for coming out to investigate last month).
We observed that some of the transients have out of state license plates.

Additionally, during garbage pickup days, we ( long-time, tax-paying, FC residents) frequently do not have space in front of our curb to set out our 3 Recology bins because transient cars are parked in front of our homes!

If we have a 2-dog limit in FC, isn't there an ordinance of what constitutes a reasonable amount of cars for residents/house, especially when it negatively impacts a community?

What will it take for FC to investigate and issue a cease & desist on this business being run w/o a permit in a residential zone?
A crime?
A 7 on your side expose?
A San Mateo journal article?

What ARE the Foster City rules/regulations relevant to AirBnB-type rentals in FC residential neighborhoods? I also live on Goldhunter Court and agree that the parking congestion created by this "business" in our neighborhood can definitely be an inconvenience at times. While I recognize that these are public streets, it does seem that FC needs to clarify its land use/zoning policies with regard to these AirBnB-type uses and what impacts are allowed and not allowed. And at the very least it seems that AirBnB-type rentals should be paying transient occupancy taxes (hotel taxes) to Foster City just as Foster City's "regular" hotels and motels have to do...

Mike--from interacting with city officials on this issue, my understanding of city's current position on airbnb is: they are allowed so long as 1) the host obtains a business license from the city; and 2) the maximum occupancy is 2. Our 119 tenant 1) has not obtained a license at all and 2) are hosting far more than 2 overnight guests on a daily basis! They claims to the city that those guests are their friends and are staying for free--would anyone actually believe that?! We are all trying to be nice to our neighbors, but I for one do not consider those in/out strangers as my neighbors.

Sounds like the 119 neighbors are in violation of already existing FC laws: 1) no business license and 2) I can attest that they often exceed the 2 guests per night maximum. Who is responsible for enforcement? Seems odd that the response here (posted above) from "City of Foster City" indicates that the issue was "assigned to Foster City Planning Division"... (If the Planning Division really is responsible for enforcement, then add another area where I think they've let the existing residents of FC down... [Pilgrim-Triton project being #1 on the list!])

Foster City - CDD Planning Manager assigned this issue to Foster City - CDD Assistant Planner 2

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