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CITY OF LANGLEY TOURIST ACCOMMODATION

PURPOSE Informing how to ‘do’ tourist accommodation in Langley  Rules and regulations  Encourage compliance  Create a level playing field Understand whether tourist accommodation influences housing capacity

ELEMENTS OF LANGLEY’S GROWTH & PROSPERITY Citizens Housing Environment Business/ Recreation Chamber/ Main St Langley Prosperity Utilities/ Arts Infrastructure City Schools Government Port of South Whidbey

TOURIST ACCOMMODATION REVENUE (2015)  Hotel/motel taxes - $4.2 m in 2015  The City received $136,131 for the Tourism Fund • Chamber of Commerce • Langley Whale Center Island Shakespeare SeaTac Shuttle wrap • • Langley Street Dance County-wide Interlocal • • Langley Main Street Agreement • • WICA

TOURIST ACCOMMODATION Hotel (Inn at Langley) Motel (Langley Motel) Bed & Breakfast Inn Bed & Breakfast Rooms (rooms in the home or in an accessory dwelling unit)

NUMBERS OF TOURIST ACCOMMODATION UNITS  36 tourist accommodation operators (known)  A total of 96 rooms/units:  Four hotel/motel operators with 58 units total  Thirty-eight units located in vacation rental type accommodation

TOURIST ACCOMMODATION – MUNICIPAL CODE Hotel/motel B&B Inn B&B Rooms B&B Rooms Commercial Residential Permitted Use Central Business & Neighborhood Business Zones All Residential zones Conditional Use Mixed Residential & all Residential zone Approval Hearing Examiner or Administrative Approval Administrative (depends on scale) Approval

BED & BREAKFAST (ROOMS) Commercial • A room(s) used transient lodging located in a building used primarily as a commercial establishment • The room(s) must be located above the first or street level or behind the street front side of the building Residential • A room(s) used for transient lodging located in a dwelling, or, in an approved accessory dwelling unit on the same property, • The principal dwelling must be owner-occupied • Maximum 2 rooms

BED & BREAKFAST INN  A building or group of buildings for tourist lodging rental  Maximum of six rooms  Breakfast is the only meal served  In a residential zone the B&B Inn is the only commercial business  Full time on site manager

OTHER REQUIREMENTS  Business license  Parking  Signs  Building Permit  Utility permits and connections

EXAMPLE OF COSTS FOR A B&B IN A NEW ADU COSTS APPROVAL  Business license - $125  Administrative approval with notice  Utility Fees (permit, connection &  Design Review participation)  Building permit  Water – $3,982  Sewer - $5,446 + $1,930 for lots created after 1992

STATE REQUIREMENTS  The Washington State Department of Revenue requires:  Any transient rental (guests stay less then 30 days) that is rented 3 or more times a year to be registered  Registration is for the purpose of collecting sales tax and lodging tax from guests.  The Washington State Department of Health requires registration and a license to operate ‘transient accommodation’.

HOUSING In 2016 Langley has a total of 749 dwelling units According to the 2010 census:  47% are owner occupied  35% are renter occupied  9% are occupied seasonally  9% are vacant

NEXT STEPS  Consider code amendments to increase ADU’s.  We will be reaching out to operators to regularize unapproved tourist accommodation and ADU’s

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

THANK YOU PO Box 366 CITY OF LANGLEY 112 Second Street Langley WA 98260 360.221.4246