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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 30,2023 Page 7 without a license. He also wondered if the owners have to provide records to the City regarding the minimum stay requirements and if the records are accurate and valid. Councilmember Groff thought the compliance part of this was tricky because the City is relying on neighbors to let the City know if there are issues. Otherwise, the City cannot follow-up with these easily. He explained if there are two complaints then the home can be referred back to the City to pull the license or at least talk about it. Councilmember Etten indicated he would not disagree with any of the thoughts about limiting the total capacity of short-term rentals whether that is space between them or a density issue. He would be in favor of that as well as how the City can do a better job with giving the right tools and information to staff to enforce that. He thought in this process the City has learned about one home on Ryan Avenue as well as some other homes in the neighborhood that may also be operating as non- owner occupied. He would be in favor of an interim ordinance that would pause any future licenses to see if the City can put a better system in place. Councilmember Strahan remembered at the initial discussion that someone had mentioned having a log that the renter would have to sign,which was turned down, but she thought if the Council was wondering how compliant people are, a log of people may help as proof of stay. Councilmember Schroeder asked if the Council can postpone the decision on these for a short period of time. Mayor Roe indicated the Council could table action tonight but, given the advice of the attorney it probably could not be tabled for six months to look at the Ordi- nance. City Attorney Tierney explained the question is if the Council were to table to in- vestigate something about a specific license. That investigation was taking a spe- cific amount of time and would be one way to talk about what reasonableness would look like. It depends on the situation. Mayor Roe asked if the City could investigate something about an application that is not currently a licensing requirement, as far as information provided by the ap- plicant. City Attorney Tierney thought inherent in the Council's authority to grant the li- censes is the ability to investigate grounds that would be denial. Certainly if there was a license applicant who appeared to be simply unqualified to run that kind of business, investigating that applicant would be a legitimate use of staff time.