{"id":320881,"date":"2026-11-04T09:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T09:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320881\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T09:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T09:08:17","slug":"erie-voters-support-short-term-rental-tax-oppose-community-center-tax-in-early-election-results-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320881\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie voters support short-term rental tax, oppose community center tax in early election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early election results show a majority of Erie voters support a proposed short-term rental tax, but a majority oppose a tax that would support improvements at the town\u2019s community center.<\/p>\n<p>As of about 9:30 p.m. on election night, 8,179 votes have been counted in favor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2026\/10\/08\/erie-election-2026-lodging-tax\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ballot Issue 3E<\/a>, which asks Erie voters to approve a lodging tax that would impact visitors at any future hotels and at short-term rentals \u2014 stays of 30 days or less at a time \u2014 in the town.\n<\/p>\n<p>5,434 votes have been counted against the short-term rental tax.<\/p>\n<p>Voters are showing less support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2026\/10\/08\/erie-election-2026-sales-tax-erie-community-center\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ballot Issue 3F<\/a>, which asks whether to approve a 0.501% sales and use tax increase to fund costs associated with the expansion, renovation, equipping, operation, and maintenance of the Erie Community Center.<\/p>\n<p>5,744 votes have been counted in favor of the community center tax, and 7,872 votes have been counted against.<\/p>\n<p>Polls closed at 7 p.m. today. The Daily Camera and Colorado Hometown Weekly will have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/news\/politics\/election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">continued coverage on election results<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early election results show a majority of Erie voters support a proposed short-term rental tax, but a majority&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1675,1676,7250,6838,836,3612,136,138,137,1677,241,182,139,50,1680],"class_list":["post-320881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-boulder-county","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-east-county","tag-election","tag-election-2026","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-front-range","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-weld-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}