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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, February 13, 2023 Page 13 needs to be pushed along a little bit instead of taking a long time. He did not think that four months was an undue burden on the Council to address this issue. Councilmember Strahan explained she would actually consider including people not allowing renewals as the Council talks about proximity and especially with the person who just came forward on Shryer and called into question what the Council has already heard from neighbors on Ryan and Tatum as they are in very close proximity. She noted if there are already three along the South Owasso area, and if the Council wants to make changes in any other neighborhoods, the City needs to know what it is working with. She thought the City needed to look at this as a whole. She agreed with Councilmember Groff and thought this should be done quickly. She noted that in the past, the City gave a lot of people an opportunity to weigh in as the Council discovered what it wanted to do initially. She thought this should be a tweaking of the Ordinance to make sure the City is ahead of this. She stated the Council cannot look at this wholistically if it is being piecemealed. She indicated another thing she was concerned about is compliance. In the last couple weeks, the City has had many people come forward with complaints so she won- dered how realistic this is to put onto staff who, unlike the compliance checks of alcohol and tobacco,is supposed to be the monitor. She thought the City needed to have a system in place for compliance. Councilmember Etten asked if the Council could see the alternate Ordinance ver- sion. City Attorney Tierney indicated the previous version was on her computer so she could walk the City Council through the current draft and review the changes be- tween the two. The City Council indicated that would be helpful. City Attorney Tierney reviewed the differences with the City Council. Mayor Roe indicated he was not a hundred percent sure if changes need to be made and considering the City has had a number of licenses in place as well as a number of owner occupied in place, it does not seem there is are a lot of issues. He noted, once again, if people are not reporting, that is another issue. It is also an issue the City has with owner-occupied single-family homes where people are living perma- nently. As he mentioned at the January 30th Council meeting and during the com- ments, a lot of times with long-term renters and homeowners issues that are acute in a neighborhood,it can go on and on because there is a lot of due process involved when dealing with those issues. There are also questions about whether people are reporting issues as well,the potential for retaliation,and that sort of thing. He noted there are different kinds of issues and all kinds of situations that the City has and has to deal with. He wanted to make sure that the City is not penalizing people who