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CITY OF LANGLEY TOURIST ACCOMMODATION PURPOSE Informing how to do - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
CITY OF LANGLEY TOURIST ACCOMMODATION PURPOSE Informing how to do - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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
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ELEMENTS OF LANGLEY’S GROWTH & PROSPERITY
Langley Prosperity
Citizens
Environment
Business/ Chamber/ Main St
Utilities/ Infrastructure
City Government
Port of South Whidbey
Schools Arts
Recreation Housing
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TOURIST ACCOMMODATION REVENUE (2015)
Hotel/motel taxes - $4.2 m in 2015 The City received $136,131 for the Tourism Fund
- Chamber of Commerce
- Island Shakespeare
- Langley Street Dance
- Langley Main Street
- WICA
- Langley Whale Center
- SeaTac Shuttle wrap
- County-wide Interlocal
Agreement
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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)
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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
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TOURIST ACCOMMODATION – MUNICIPAL CODE
Hotel/motel B&B Inn B&B Rooms Commercial B&B Rooms Residential Permitted Use Central Business & Neighborhood Business Zones All Residential zones Conditional Use Mixed Residential & all Residential zone Approval Hearing Examiner or Administrative Approval (depends on scale) Administrative Approval
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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
- r 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
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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
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OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Business license Parking Signs Building Permit Utility permits and connections
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EXAMPLE OF COSTS FOR A B&B IN A NEW ADU
COSTS
Business license - $125 Utility Fees (permit, connection &
participation)
Water – $3,982 Sewer - $5,446 + $1,930 for lots
created after 1992 APPROVAL
Administrative approval with notice Design Review Building permit
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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’.
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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
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NEXT STEPS
Consider code amendments to
increase ADU’s.
We will be reaching out to
- perators to regularize
unapproved tourist accommodation and ADU’s
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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CITY OF LANGLEY
PO Box 366 112 Second Street Langley WA 98260 360.221.4246