Oceanside, CA–Even as the California Assembly ponders a measure banning timeshares and condo hotels designed to prevent psychological barriers from impeding access to the Pacific Ocean, the Oceanside City Council voted Wednesday night to allow timeshares and condo hotels. Under a measure introduced in late February, seeksing to bar both timeshares and condo hotels in coastal areas, the bill would prohibit a unit in an overnight visitor-serving commercial facility from being sold for individual ownership or being used for part-time private occupancy if it is within the coastal zone. Timeshares are divisions of units, usually into 50 weekly interests with individuals buying one or two weeks for vacation purposes. A condo hotel is also purchased for use over a limited time, usually in 30- to 90-day increments, and allows the owner use of hotel services. Levine suggests that along with the physical barrier of the building, there would be an effective psychological barrier impeding access to the waterfront if the fractional timeshares and condo hotels were allowed to take hold. Oceanside City Council approved a measure Wednesday night that would limit timeshares and condo units to 25 percent of a hotel project, paving the way for the planned 289-room waterfront resort by SD Malkin Properties. The resort was designed to have 48 fractional timeshares, along with the main hotel and a 47-room boutique hotel near the Oceanside Pier. The Oceanside Chamber of Commerce worries efforts to stop the timeshare component in SD Malkins planned waterfront resort — Westin is the proposed hotel operator — could threaten the entire project.
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