民宿花开玉皇山下

Bed & Breakfasts at the Foot of Mount Yuhuang

这些天,在杭州玉皇山路9号住了50多年的姚志鸿一直在琢磨着自家房子的事情。经过社区的统一改造,姚大伯家建的三层别墅粉刷了外立面,砌起了新围墙,焕然一新,而且自家没花一分钱,这让他很开心。不过,同样是改造好的农居房,隔壁邻居脑子活络,以30万元一年的租金租给了一群年轻人办起了民宿,这让姚大伯看得心痒痒,也盼着早点把自己的房子租出去做民宿。借着杭州即将举办G20峰会的春风,去年12月底,杭州西湖街道将姚大伯家所在玉皇山脚观音洞、阔石板一带的农居点列为环境整治提升项目。

Before community transformation for the west expansion of the West Lake,the area around Mount Yuhuang was called "Nanshan Village",which was occupied by vegetable plots and pigpens.You can imagine how dirty,disorderly there was.Later,more and more illegal buildings were built there due to the development of tourism economy and it became the accumulation area of rental housing.At the end of December 2015,Hangzhou West Lake Sub-district Office listed the area into the environmental treatment and improvement project with the aim of transforming facade and building new rural residences to match surroundings.As a result,Villagers earn more money because they rent residences to a good number of Bed & Breakfasts,restaurants and cafes.