Complaints were from , and. Gym Colligan has insisted that all STR complaints be anonymous to protect the identity of the complainer. Our group will post the names of all complainers on this petition - NO ONE will allowed to remain anonymous and hide behind a false, vicious complaint. Pictured below is the April 18, 2018 Letter to the Editor in the SI Reporter from . Riddled with complete lies and false statistics -  is unfortunately very typical of our elitist opposition's desperation, rage for attention, and fear mongering. Regulating airbnbs To the Editor: Airbnbs are mostly not hardship cases; a handful of professional absentee multi-dwelling landlords capture most of the revenues. Of the 82 listings on Shelter Island which earned $1.6 million in 2017, 73 percent of the airbnb listings are entire houses with absentee owners, only 27 percent are rooms for rent. Forty percent of the airbnb landlords here are multi-unit landlords, who own and rent more than one property. The top 10 properties earn 36 percent of the revenue, or $400,000-plus out of the $1.6 million, and given the cross-ownership, its likely that as few as 10-20 people are earning more than 50 percent of the revenue on Shelter Island. The only way to make money is to maximize occupancy by having as many people crammed into as big a house for as short a stay as possible. These are high turnover share houses. The source for statistics is AirDNA, www.airdna.co The community bears the brunt of high commercial turnover in residential neighborhoods that destroys quality of life with noise and garbage; consumes scarce resources; introduces crime; burdens police and fire departments; and reduces affordable housing. Airbnb is making an expensive test case out of Shelter Island. Our town attorney ought to be networking with the other East End towns for support. Is he? Airbnb is providing money and strategy to the “grass roots” group here, which is acting as a front for airbnb and a few landlords, using tactics used in other towns. Airbnb collects 9 to 15 percent of every revenue dollar in fees and looks for small, under-resourced communities to push their agenda. There should be an audit of the petition to repeal the law. Given the above statistics it’s highly unlikely that 757 local people signed it. Our zoning laws prohibit bed and breakfasts without a permit and disallow them entirely in near shore overlay zones. Our laws also prohibit most commercial activity (unless specifically described) in most residential zones. Citizens should demand immediate disclosure by members of town government of any campaign contributions from airbnb and its Super PAC, and of any existing or planned airbnb rental properties owned by Town Board members, the town attorney and their families. Anyone involved in shaping proposed short-term rentals rules changes should be precluded from profiting from those changes by either recusing themselves, or by agreeing not to be an airbnb landlord in the future. Write your own wonderful, intelligent, factual "Letter to the Editor" in the Shelter Island Reporter to dispute these outright lies. Letters should be send via email to: a.clancy@sireporter.com by Tuesday mornings at 11:30 am.