A recent Summit Daily headline stated a few Summit County homeowners filed a new lawsuit in state court regarding short-term rental taxation.

Why are we still dealing with this issue? Didn’t you just lose a similar suit? There are numerous reasons the case was dismissed in federal court. According to the article, 100 homeowners are represented in the suit. The Summit County Assessor states there are 9,542 homes in unincorporated Summit County. By my math that has 1.04 percent of the population involved in the suit. What a waste of taxpayer money. Just shopping a frivolous issue around the courts until a sympathetic judge, who just happens to own a short-term rental, gets the case? Running a commercial enterprise in a residential area is not a fundamental right.     

Some owners won’t be able to make their mortgages now? People make bad investments all the time. When was it the government’s responsibility to cover some homebuyers risky investment because they smelled easy money?

Meanwhile the rest of us are dealing with hotels in our residential neighborhoods, an influx of sleazy, fast-buck Freddies; increasing traffic; a inescapable roar of “progress;” litter; late-night, hot-tub parties; u-turns on state highways; inadequate snow tires; bachelorette parties; and greed. Are we determined to become the ugly step child of the burbs east of Colorado Springs?  
Why can’t you guys accept you lost and move on? My neighborhood, my community, are not zones sacrificed to the desire of a few money changers. Some of us live here because we work hard, and desire quality of life, not to rake in every dime we can fleece out of some guests pocket.

Personally, I think these one percenters should face more regulations, and pay more fees. Have the courtesy to see and respect the rest of us, the other 99%.