In the final weeks before Tuesday s Cathedral City special election on Measure B, an initiative that will decide the future of short-term rentals in the city, a campaign committee supported by Airbnb has donated $75,000 to bolster Measure B opposition.
Voters in this western Coachella Valley city are casting ballots after months of heated debate between short-term rental owners, who say it is their right to rent out their properties, and their neighbors, who contend these properties disrupt neighborhoods and diminish residents quality of life.
A yes vote on Measure B will uphold City Council s 2020 decision to phase out short-term rentals by 2023. A “no” vote will revert to a prior set of regulations on short-term rentals in the city.
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Three years ago, the head of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission gathered a group of staffers
for a meeting to discuss city and state gift laws, which determine how much free food, entertainment and other gratuities a politician can legally accept.
Heather Holt, the agency’s executive director, had potentially disturbing news a member of the City Council had “threatened to cut the Ethics Commission’s budget if they did not give more permissive advice” on certain gift rules, according to a March 2018 email written by a commission staffer who has identified herself as a whistleblower.
“Heather then asked if ‘anyone was willing to lose their job over this,’” wrote Alexandria Latragna, then the agency’s ethics program manager. The Times reviewed a copy of Latragna’s email, which was partially redacted.