Agenda Date: 01/12/2021
Subject:
Title
Short-Term Rental Update and 2021 Strategy
Body
Prepared By:
Jennifer Henninger, Community Development Director and
Reid Betzing, City Attorney
PURPOSE:
Confirm staff has a complete list of issues and questions that council wishes to be addressed for a process that runs parallel to the ULUC, and for staff to walk through the STR strategy for 2021. The issues and questions are noted within the presentation and were provided to the city after the November 2020 council adoption of business license regulations for Short Term Rentals (STRs).
PRESENTATIONS:
Staff Presenter(s): Jennifer Henninger, Community Development Director and
Reid Betzing, City Attorney
Additional Presenter(s): N/A
SUMMARY:
Since the adoption of Ordinance 41-2020 adding Chapter 23, entitled Short Term Rentals, to Title 3 Business Regulations there have been items brought forth to staff regarding additional STR regulations. Many of the items have already been addressed in the recently adopted business regulations, however there are others that will be addressed in the upcoming Unified Land Use Code (ULUC) slated for adoption in October. Staff has created a list of STR related items to be addressed over the coming year for Council to confirm.
PRIOR ACTIONS OR DISCUSSIONS:
Since January of 2019, a citizen group has met and provided several different ideas that could be addressed in future STR regulations. Among the items addressed by the citizen group was that owner occupied STRs be treated differently than those STRs that are not occupied by a property owner.
At Council's February 2020 workshop, a request was made to evaluate what actions could be taken on STR regulations prior to the formal adoption of the ULUC. In July of 2020, staff proposed a phased approach to STRs that included creation of a Good Neighbor Handout for owners, users, and neighbors of STRs and drafting new STR business license regulations. In November, City Cou...
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