[emdubs]

Yep. The issue is most markets is due to regulation. If hotels can't meet the price and availability needs in a market then the issue is the regulation. For temporary events that is understandable, but continued restraint on hotels makes no sense.

[behringer]

Which burdensome hotel regulations would you like to see removed?

[sonnyblarney]

Zoning.

[behringer]

You wouldn't mind if your next door neighbor was a seedy roach motel or a 10 story holiday inn? Somehow I doubt it.

[sonnyblarney]

10 story holiday inns are very professionally run, they have security etc.

Why do you think a hotel would be worse quality than residential?

I live in a mixed neighbourhood and many of my neighbours are already roach motels.

Franky, in all my travels I've never come across the proverbial roach motel, or anything totally run down.

My concern would not be the business or people - just parking. As long as there isn't a big parking lot, there's no reason why I couldn't be next to a short term residential unit, I don't think many people would have any problems at all.

[behringer]

So you want to regulate parking lots but not commercial and residential zoning? Makes sense.

[sonnyblarney]

I didn't say 'commercial' I said 'hotels'.

There's nary a difference between a hotel of a certain type, and residences. There are people living there.

'Parking lots' are massively different than any other kinds of space.

As long as the hotel fits the local aesthetic, i.e. only 5 stories high if the other buildings are, 1 story high if the others are ... then there's nothing wrong with them at all.