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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, February 13, 2023 Page 11 Ms. Chew explained she has a property in Roseville that her in-laws are at most of the time. While their parents are traveling,they are looking to have the opportunity to do something with the home, so it does not sit vacant for months on end. Speak- ing to there being a ban,this can be very disruptive when it comes to making plans and not knowing what the City is going to do. She knew the Council was trying to do what is right for everyone. She stated it would be appreciated if there was a way for the Council to continue to consider an update and revise it without putting a ban in place. She wondered if a ban was necessary because it is leaving people in limbo for an indeterminate amount of time. Mayor Roe thought the Council could consider whether or not to include renewals as part of what is being discussed. He thought the question of whether the City needs to do this to review the program was a legitimate question that the Council can discuss and figure out as well. No one else wished to address the City Council.Mayor Roe closed public comment and opened Council discussion. Councilmember Etten indicated he would like to hear from staff because what he tried to move forward was a halt to new short-term rental licenses and the proposal that came back was new and renewals and taking the Code out. He did not under- stand how it got to that point and what leeway the Council would have to do what Mayor Roe suggested to not affect the renewals but only halt the new licenses. Ms. Gundlach explained the first draft of the Ordinance that the City Attorney drafted did not include a ban on renewals but based on the line of questions staff received from Council, both during the discussion at the January 30th meeting and numerous emails and phone calls after the meeting, the she and City Manager dis- cussed including renewals because they knew it would take some time to work through those issues and so the City Attorney redrafted the Ordinance to include renewals. If the Council does not want to include renewals, she believed the City Attorney was prepared with the previous draft of the Ordinance where renewals would be allowed. She noted that right now, none of the licenses have had issues. She understood that some of the public talked about issues that were not reported but the way the Ordinance works is that the issues have to be reported before it gets logged as a potential violation. Two violations are allowed within 180 days before the license can be suspended or revoked. That research is done by staff before the license is brought before the City Council for approve initially or to renew. Councilmember Schroeder indicated when it comes to the complaining, and in part why the Council wants to look at it, people don't know where or who to complain to because it is not spelled out for the neighbors. She thought that was part of the problem. She recalled that when Councilmember Etten made his motion it was just for new licenses and not for the renewals. She thought the City had to consider that