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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 30, 2023 Page 6 Councilmember Schroeder explained she was looking at what other cities have done,and found it was interesting. Other cities have done everything from banning these as well as limiting the area where these could be as well as doing nothing and letting people do what they want. She wondered if it made sense to consider limit- ing the number of short-term rentals or limiting the space between rentals that the City could consider. She thought it could be similar to the license for the THC products or liquor, limiting the number of licenses allowed in the City. She stated the City should try to get ahead of this before it might become a bigger issue. Two things she was thinking is that the amount of time it takes staff to investigate calls on properties, it is time consuming and hard to verify. The City does not look at the records of who is renting there and how long so if a neighbor calls the City and tells them there is a short-term rental next door that is less than seven days, the owner can tell the City they are not doing that so then staff is stuck trying to make a call on that. She indicated the City has been getting a lot of feedback from resi- dents and she knew the affect on neighborhoods is a little subjective but it is im- portant to hear what the residents are saying and what they want in the City. She referenced the City's Comprehensive Plan for 2040,noting it states"create housing that contributes to our existing neighborhoods." She wondered how this contrib- uted to the existing neighborhoods. Councilmember Strahan asked City Attorney Tierney if there was anything that would preclude the City from having some geographic density restrictions. City Attorney Tierney indicated there is no explicit limitation of regulating the ge- ography of where these would be. Councilmember Strahan asked how many short-term rentals the City has currently. Mr. Trudgeon indicated currently there are four, not including the three tonight. Councilmember Strahan indicated the City does have a large number of single fam- ily homes that are rented with long-term residential and that is something to con- sider as well, noting a lot of people have complained about that. She did not know if the City had anything in their power to stop them from renting long-term and that contributes to the degradation of the neighborhood as much as anything else too. She did have concerns about 1901 Ryan, if it is indeed currently being rented with- out the short-term rental license. She understood the owners have already pulled a long-term rental license but until the City verifies that someone is there for a long- term lease, she felt the City should not allow the owners to have the license if the owners are already not quite living up to the City's expectations. Mayor Roe stated the other question he has related to the requirement in the City's Code that if somebody is found to be doing short-term rental, the applicant cannot then get a short-term license without waiting something like 60 or 90 days. But he was not sure how the City can verify that the owner has been doing short-term rental