As a Santa Monica resident, I would love that. When I got married my (large, greek) family visited for 2 weeks. I lived in an apartment at the time, and it wa

As a Santa Monica resident, I would love that. When I got married my (large, greek) family visited for 2 weeks. I lived in an apartment at the time, and it was wonderful that could all rent a large house to stay in. Even today that would be useful for when groups visit over the holidays & what not, but it's imply not an option. One concern residents have is they don't want to suddenly find there's a "party house" in the neighborhood. In their defense, this was happening. (Google [House of Rock LLC] if you're curious.) However banning AirBnB isn't the right way to address that, nor does it really solve that problem. Unfortunately, I don't ever see the law changing. There's two unlikely segments coming together to support the law: 1) The hotels. An "normal" hotel here charges ~$400/night. High end easily goes for over $600/night. And don't even ask about rates in peak season. 2) The anti-development crowd. There's a very vocal segment that wants no new development & low, affordable rents. (If you're thinking "uh, supply & demand", that gets dismissed in discussions as a Republican trick.) They also tend to not like people new to the city. They saw AirBnB taking the limited rental stock off the market (which was happening). OP's proposal would address that, but at this point, you're not going to change this group's mindset.