To My Fellow Marco Island Residents

If you own a home in the Residential Single Family (RSF) zone on Marco Island the following scenario is now possible: 

The absentee owners on the right side of your home rent their house out every week, 52 times a year, to different people. The absentee owners of the house on the left side of your home have just started renting out their pool three or four times a week to groups of 10 strangers for pool parties. 

This past weekend you had constant partying in the STR home on right and two all-day pool parties at the home on your left. 

Is this really what our founders wanted when they created our Code of Ordinances and established permitted uses for homes in the RSF Zone? Could any of them have even imagined a Marco Island where homeowners turned their houses and pools into 52 week a year businesses? What will some creative next-door entrepreneur owners rent next:

• Their kitchens for catering?
• Their garages for off-season car storage?
• Their bathrooms for taking showers?

As your City Councilman I will do everything I can to stop this madness. 

The first thing you can do to help me is to vote Yes on the STR Registration Ordinance.