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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, February 12, 2024 Page 4 No. 1656 entitled,"An Ordinance Summary of the Amendment to Title 9,Creating Chapter 912 of the Roseville City Code in Order to Establish an Affordable Housing Trust Fund" Roll Call (2/3 Majority Required) Ayes: Strahan, Etten, Schroeder, Groff, and Roe. Nays: None b. Consider Adoption of an Ordinance Revising Regulations Related to Short Term Rentals and Restarting Issuance of Short-Term Rental Licenses Community Development Director Janice Gundlach and Code Enforcement Official Dave Englund briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request for Council Action and related attachments dated February 12, 2024. Ms. Gundlach went through the changes staff made in the bench handout with the City Council. She noted the changes were very minor. Councilmember Strahan explained for a point of clarification that the notice to the neighbors is not for their agreement or disagreement; the license has already been granted by the time the neighborhood is alerted. She thought it was important to point that out. She wondered if at some point the Council wanted to discuss limiting the number of properties. There was no mention about how the City will be alerted to non-compliant properties,questioning what the process would be for notification to the City. She noted there are some currently licensed locations advertising that they can have ten to fourteen people in their facility. She thought it was important to remind people with the licenses that they are still bound by the rules regarding limitations to one family. She also did not see anything indicating what the rate of the local lodging tax would be. She wondered if that will be applied for the nights that people occupy the home or for the full seven-to-ten-day potential stay based on how the ordinance is written. Ms. Gundlach believed the lodging tax was a percentage of the gross sales by City Ordinance. The other concern about the number of people in a rental, a single- family home can be occupied by a single family and as long as they are related, it can be as many people as are related. But,the short-term rental ordinance does not prohibit somebody from using a short-term rental for a party. A family could be staying in a short-term rental and decide to have a party with others they can certainly do that.There are provisions in the short-term rental ordinance about noisy parties and gatherings or other issues that could cause the police to be called or for staff to go out and observe a violation that could be subject to suspension or revocation at a future time but there is nothing that would prohibit somebody from allowing sixteen people from being in a short-term rental. She reviewed the ways that the City finds out about short-term rentals in the City.