While some Quinte region municipalities have put in a licensing and enforcement regime or are developing one to regulate short-term accommodations businesses, that won’t be the case in Centre Hastings, at least not for now.
Mayor of Centre Hastings Tom Deline says they’ve had problems with just one large short-term rental operation on Moira Lake and the owner is working to address some of the issues.
“Even if we charged everybody five or six hundred bucks for a licence it would still cost the taxpayers more money to put a system in place to enforce it so hopefully we can just get the point across to people, c’mon guys let’s all work together here.”
Deline guesses that there are between 70 and 150 STAs in Centre Hastings with the vast majority not disrupting neighbourhoods.
A recent survey of Centre Hastings residents which had 133 respondents showed that around 60% of them had not been bothered by bed and breakfasts and other such operations.
