Condotel managers are banding together in opposition of a ballot measure which would raise taxes on their properties but not hotels. Courtesy imageIn banding together to ask voters to turn down Ballot Issue 2A, a consortium of condotels and other Vail businesses that are reliant on tourists is making an existential pitch in Vail. A new group calling itself the Vail Common Sense Housing Committee claims that condotels offer many advantages over corporate hotels and should be embraced by any community reliant on tourism. If passed, Ballot Issue 2A would raise taxes on condotels by 6%, while corporate hotels wouldn’t receive that same tax hike, placing them at an advantage over their similar-looking neighbors, the committee claims. Meyers said he fully supports the town’s housing efforts, noting that Manor Vail recently purchased one of the town’s new Timber Ridge Village employee housing units.