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Tell Council Members to Oppose Proposed Tourism Cap Ordinance
July 7, 2021
Dear Businesses & Residents,
Just as local businesses work to make a post-pandemic recovery, the West Hollywood City Council is considering a destructive hotel ordinance that harms workers, businesses, city services and devastates our local economy, making a full recovery out of reach for hotels, restaurants, and other businesses that depend on tourism.
We need your help today to stop this out-of-step proposal, pushed by special interests before it’s too late.
Why This Matters to West Hollywood Businesses
The proposal would place strict restrictions on WeHo’s hotel industry, reducing hotel capacity, business income, and city government revenues that fund vital services. The ordinance would cap local tourism capacity by arbitrarily restricting work assignments for hotel employees in the middle of a hiring shortage.
The proposed law would make it nearly impossible for West Hollywood hotels to welcome back guests at pre-pandemic levels, forcing guests and tourist spending into nearby cities such as Los Angeles and Beverly Hills where this cap is not in place, having a devastating ripple effect throughout West Hollywood businesses – including already struggling restaurants, bars, and retail businesses
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To make matters worse, the Council has rejected the calls by the interim city manager, the Chamber, and the West Hollywood Travel & Tourism Board for an economic analysis of the impact the proposed ordinance would have on local businesses and our economy.
As you know, tourism is an essential part of our local city economy. Making hotels less competitive and more expensive will cost all of our businesses revenues. Harming hotels and other businesses that depend on tourism harms all businesses in West Hollywood.
But you can help. We need your voice to tell the City Council to reject the tourism cap and support West Hollywood’s recovery. Here are three things you can do right now:
1.
Sign our open letter
to the council opposing the tourism cap.
2.
Save Our Services (S.O.S.) WeHo, the coalition of businesses, residents, workers, and consumers calling on the City Council to reject this dangerous proposal.
3.
Call and
the council voicing your opposition.
4.
RSVP at
and we’ll save you a seat to be heard at the next council meeting on July 19 during public comment, when the special interest giveaway will be heard.
For questions or more information on how to get involved, contact
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