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ATTACHMENT D 1 2 a.Consider Draft Ordinance Regarding Rental Registration and Short-Term 3 Rental Licensing 4 Community Development Director Janice Gundlachbriefly highlighted this item 5 as detailed in the Request For Council Actionand related attachments dated January 6 11, 2021. 7 8 Councilmember Strahan stated she needed to better understand what the City’s goal 9 is because in what is being sent forward, reading what people are asking of the City, 10 what concerns they have, and in looking at other constituencies and municipalities, 11 short term rental rules and regulations, it does not seem like the City is at that phase. 12 If the City is looking at specifics, like a physical, visual demarcation of property 13 lines, to her it seems it would need a lot more detail from what has been provided. 14 She requested more information. 15 16 Ms. Gundlach thought staff’s understanding last year was that the Council wanted 17 a regulatory tool in place to take care of essentially three properties that have been 18 problem short-term rentals. Staff noted the two ordinances included in the packet 19 provide the necessary regulatory tool to take away a privilegeif the owners of the 20 properties are not taking care of them. She thought there was someconcern about 21 the 550 registered rentals, 24 listings on the short-termsites, and many of those are 22 operating without any problem. She thought there was also a desire to try and allow 23 those to remain. She statedif the Council does not like the two ordinances that are 24 included in the packet, staff would need to understand what path the Council wants 25 to go on. Her understanding, based on the two prior meetings, was that the City 26 was at the detail phase and looking for comments on the specific ordinance lan- 27 guage. 28 29 Councilmember Strahan indicated she wanted to contest that there are more than 30 three properties. She knew one was on her block and is not currently on a VRBO 31 site but last year, when it was, a tiny three-bedroom home was listed for occupancy 32 of sixteen people. She reviewed the issues with the Councilalong with specific 33 regulatory issues. 34 35 Mayor Roe thought part of the previous discussion was certain factors related to 36 these properties are already regulated inthe nuisance code, which applies to all 37 properties. He noted one question that came up was to what extent does the City 38 expect these businesses to follow. The thing the City is trying to get at with short- 39 term rentals is to clean it up, make a number of things clearer,and more able to be 40 enforced. He indicated that Chapter 909gets to the notion of licensing absentee- 41 owned single-family homes that are being rented on a short-term basis as a busi- 42 ness. 43 44 Councilmember Willmus thanked staff for the effort to get the City where it is at 45 this point. He thought much of this is in line with whathe wanted to see in the City. 46 The one area where it might be coming up a little bit short is with the minimum 47 stay. He wantedto be assured that the date the Council comes up with will catch 48 at least two weekends and he was not quite sure that a minimum stay of seven