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为什么在圣何塞租游泳池是违法的?
Resident Crystal Campisi wants San Jose to make private pool rentals legal, and has spoken to officials about amending city code. Photo by Lorraine Gabbert.
当地居民克里斯特尔·坎皮西希望圣何塞将私人泳池租赁合法化，并与官员们讨论了修改城市法规的问题。Lorraine Gabbert摄。
Splashing and laughter coming from a neighbor’s swimming pool leaves residents wishing they had their own on a sizzling day. There’s a pool rental service for that, but not in San Jose.
邻居家游泳池里传来的水花和笑声让居民们希望在炎热的天气里也能有自己的游泳池。有泳池租赁服务，但不是在圣何塞。
Swimply—like Airbnb for swimming pools—developed an app to connect homeowners with those seeking a backyard oasis. The idea has spread like wildfire, with more than 25,000 listings in 125-plus markets across the U.S., Canada and Australia, but not in San Jose where private pool rentals are illegal.
就像游泳池领域的爱彼迎(Airbnb)开发了一款应用程序，将房主与那些寻求后院绿洲的人联系起来。这个想法像野火一样迅速传播开来，在美国、加拿大和澳大利亚的125多个市场中，有超过2.5万套泳池挂牌出售，但在圣何塞(San Jose)除外，因为那里的私人泳池租赁是非法的。
Swimply founder and CEO Bunim Laskin, 25, started the company in 2018 and launched the app in 2019. The idea came to Laskin five years earlier when he and his 11 siblings were stuck at home. He offered to pay 25% of a neighbor’s pool maintenance expenses if his family could use their pool. From there, he knocked on doors and other neighbors agreed to let him rent out their pools, and a business was born.
今年25岁的Swimply创始人兼首席执行官布尼姆·拉斯金于2018年创办了这家公司，并于2019年推出了这款应用。拉斯金五年前就有了这个想法，当时他和11个兄弟姐妹被困在家里。他提出，如果邻居的家人可以使用他们家的泳池，他愿意支付25%的泳池维护费用。从那里开始，他挨家挨户地敲门，其他邻居同意让他出租他们的泳池，一项生意就这样诞生了。
Currently, the company brings in eight figures a month of revenue, Laskin said. Investors, including AirBnb and Lime, are smitten with the idea as well, helping Laskin raise $51.2 million.
拉斯金说，目前，该公司每月的收入达到8位数。包括AirBnb和Lime在内的投资者也对这个想法很感兴趣，帮助拉斯金筹集了5120万美元。
“More than ever people are looking for ways to be alive and enjoy time with their families and friends,” Laskin told San Josè Spotlight. “Swimply is a pretty amazing incremental revenue they can earn on the side with some owners earning over $10,000 a month.”
拉斯金告诉San Josè Spotlight:“人们比以往任何时候都更想活着，享受与家人和朋友在一起的时光。”“他们可以通过Swimply获得相当惊人的额外收入，一些业主的月收入超过1万美元。”
Swimply, which takes a 15% commission, also covers homeowners with up to $1 million in liability insurance and $10,000 in property damage insurance, and requires renters to sign waivers, he said.
他说，Swimply收取15%的佣金，还为房主提供不超过100万美元的责任保险和1万美元的财产损害保险，并要求租房者签署弃权书。
But for one San Jose resident who joined the Swimply app, things didn’t go as planned.
但对于一名加入了Swimply应用程序的圣何塞居民来说，事情并没有按计划进行。
In 2021, resident Crystal Campisi rented out her pool through Swimply for a few hours at a time, providing families with a place to swim when other pools were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the 66-year-old retiree, it provided her with an income of $1,000 a month and helped others, she said.
2021年，居民克里斯特尔·坎皮西通过Swimply将自己的游泳池出租几个小时，在其他游泳池在COVID-19大流行期间关闭时，为家庭提供了一个游泳的地方。她说，对于这位66岁的退休人员来说，这份工作为她提供了每月1,000美元的收入，并帮助了其他人。
“I realized there was a critical need,” Campisi said.
坎皮西说:“我意识到有一种迫切的需求。”
Although she often rented to families, renters included a Christian group that baptized someone in her hot tub, a mermaid shooting a video and a bachelorette party.
虽然她经常把房子租给家庭，但租客包括一个在她的热水浴缸里为某人洗礼的基督教团体、一个拍摄视频的美人鱼和一个单身女子派对。
That came to an end when a neighbor turned her in. Campisi received a cease and desist letter from city code enforcement threatening her with fines up to $1,200 per day for renting out her pool, she said. She stopped, but wonders how it’s fair when she regularly sees listings of San Jose pools available to rent from Swimply.
当一个邻居告发她时，一切都结束了。坎皮西说，她收到了来自城市执法部门的一封停止函，威胁说，如果她出租自己的游泳池，将被处以每天最高1200美元的罚款。她停了下来，但当她经常看到可以从Swimply租到的圣何塞泳池的清单时，她想知道这是否公平。
“It should be legal for everyone or illegal for everyone,” she told San José Spotlight. “I’d like to make it legal.”
“这对每个人来说都应该是合法的，或者对每个人来说都是非法的，”她告诉San José Spotlight。“我想让它合法化。”
No code for pool rentals
泳池租赁没有代码
Martina Davis, San Jose division manager for planning, building and code enforcement, said pool rentals don’t fit with the city’s zoning that regulates the commercial use of residential properties. An amendment to the zoning code would be needed. Regulations for Airbnb wouldn’t apply, Davis said, as they were written specifically about people staying in a dwelling unit. It doesn’t address outdoor swimming pool rentals.
圣何塞市负责规划、建筑和法规执行的部门经理玛蒂娜·戴维斯(Martina Davis)说，泳池租赁不符合该市对住宅地产的商业用途进行监管的分区规定。需要对分区法规进行修订。戴维斯说，Airbnb的规定并不适用，因为这些规定是专门针对住在住宅单元的人写的。它不涉及户外游泳池租赁。
“We regularly do code updates,” Davis told San Josè Spotlight. “I don’t know that this one would be terribly difficult or complicated. It’s just more a matter of getting it on the prioritization list so that we can allocate resources to doing the work… It’s up to the council to prioritize what we’re working on.”
“我们定期进行代码更新，”戴维斯告诉San Josè Spotlight。“我不知道这个问题会非常困难或复杂。现在更重要的是把它列入优先次序清单，这样我们就可以分配资源来做这项工作……这取决于理事会对我们正在做的事情的优先次序。”
Campisi reached out to the two mayoral candidates, San Jose Councilmember Matt Mahan and Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, for help. She also had email exchanges with City Manager Jennifer Maguire.
坎皮西向两位市长候选人寻求帮助，他们是圣何塞市议员马特·马汉和圣克拉拉县县长辛迪·查韦斯。她还与城市经理詹妮弗·马奎尔(Jennifer Maguire)有电子邮件往来。
“In an era of climate change when you look for innovative ways to share resources this is a really interesting idea,” Chavez told San Josè Spotlight. “There are a lot of families that don’t have pools… so renting one might make a lot of sense.”
“在这个气候变化的时代，当你寻找共享资源的创新方式时，这是一个非常有趣的想法，”查韦斯告诉San Josè Spotlight。“很多家庭没有游泳池……所以租一个可能很有意义。”
Mahan was unavailable for comment.
记者无法联系到马汉置评。
Rachel Roberts, deputy director of San Jose’s code enforcement division, said it takes “quite a bit of resources” to change a city ordinance.
圣何塞执法部门的副主任瑞秋·罗伯茨说，改变一项城市法令需要“相当多的资源”。
“We would have to do outreach, research and due diligence so what was put forth to council is productive,” she told San Josè Spotlight. “It’s important we make sure we invest time engaging with the stakeholders so we can get a good understanding of the outcomes.”
她告诉San Josè Spotlight:“我们必须做外联、研究和尽职调查，以便向委员会提出的建议是有成效的。”“重要的是，我们要确保花时间与利益相关方接触，这样我们才能很好地理解结果。”
Roberts said the greatest challenge is finding the time and workers to dedicate to this.
罗伯茨说，最大的挑战是找到时间和工作人员来致力于这项工作。
“It’s not a priority for us to bring forward for our division,” she said. “We’re very under-resourced for a city of our size, so when we have vacancies on top of that, it gets to be very challenging.”
“这不是我们部门优先考虑的事情，”她说。“对于我们这样规模的城市来说，我们的资源非常不足，所以当我们没有资源的时候，就会非常具有挑战性。”
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