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I want to end up with a few of the challenges that we are faced with when enforcing this. And the first and biggest being our inability to determine the truth since we rely on selfreported data from hotel owners. We encounter cooked books and second sets of books where theres the books for me and the books for the real use of being recorded. Ive already mentioned the misuse of the temporary conversion exception where hotel owners consider an entitlement. Another challenge is the limit on d. B. I. s authority to initiate enforcement proceedings. We are not considered an interested party. And therefore we cannot initiate complaints. And we do have the ability to assess penalties for recordkeeping violations but not for conversions, which is the main violation of the ordinance. We encounter vacancies in room warehousing, which i can talk more about later, but theres no law that requires hotel owners to rent out their guest rooms. My colleagues are about to leave me so theres not going to ....
Ordinance would not approve the Development Agreement and amend portions of the planning and administrative codes in order to facilitate implementation of the project. The amendments create a consolidated approval process at the Preservation Commission and Planning Commission. They provide for a comprehensive approach in order to preclude the otherwise peace meal process called for existing code provisions. Specifically the amendment enable a master conditional use authorization, master certificate of appropriateness and master permit to alter applications to be filed. And on november 20th and 21st of this year, the historic Preservation Commission and Planning Commission cons ....