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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,December 4, 2023 Page 7 Mayor Roe added that the cost of this planning effort is well spent and efficiently used funding. He also appreciated the excellent planning about engagement and keeping volunteers central to this effort, especially because the volunteers are so passionate about the issue and the natural resources in their community. He also thought this plan would help the City put dollars each year towards the capital improvement spreadsheet to estimate costs. Roll Call Ayes: Strahan, Etten, Schroeder, Groff, and Roe. Nays: None f. Discussion Regarding Ordinance Amendments Pertaining to Short Term Rental Licensing Community Development Director Janice Gundlach briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request for Council Action and related attachments dated December 4, 2023. Building Official David Englund was also at the meeting to answer questions. Mayor Roe noted the three-hundred-foot and five-hundred-foot distances shown in the packet are arbitrarily chosen and this is not a staff recommendation. It was used for illustrative purposes. He also asked for a map of all the registered single-family rentals that are not short-term rentals but it was not given as a bench handout. Ms. Gundlach put a copy of that requested map on the screen for councilmembers and the public. Councilmember Strahan asked City Attorney Tierney if an owner of an Airbnb or any of the other rentals are subject to the Minnesota Kari Koskinen background check since they have access to the dwelling of someone else. Councilmember Strahan noted that generally with a short-term rental, the owner has to go through a background check and a multi-family the property manager is supposed to undergo a background check through the BCA and it is rather exhaustive. City Attorney Tierney explained she had the opportunity to look up the Kari Koskinen background check not that long ago and that applies to longer-term rentals for thirty days or more and she believed it was for multi-family. She knows the Kari Koskinen law exempts a regular hotel and believed it would exempt these short term rentals as well. Councilmember Schroeder explained she has had a couple different versions of the definition of the seven-day and ten-day consecutive rental and one example was if there was a rental for two days and left vacant for the rest of the period, that was the same as renting it for the whole ten days. Or,does it mean that a person actually has to rent the place for the entire ten-day period.