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Committee weighs limits on short-term rentals and clarifies accessory uses, congregate housing and community-garden parking
Summary
Committee members debated restricting short‑term rentals to downtown/mixed-use districts or requiring special permission citywide, discussed guest-room definitions for short-term rentals, and reviewed policies for community gardens, chickens/bees and congregate housing; no final votes were taken.
Committee members debated whether to permit short-term rentals broadly or to restrict them to higher-density commercial and mixed-use districts and allow conditional-use (CU) or special-exception (SE) review elsewhere. Staff (Kristen) and several committee members said the draft would remove short-term rentals from residential districts and permit them by right in DT1, DT2, Milliard and some MX districts, with special-exception or conditional-use review in other mixed zones. Members discussed definitions, enforcement and how to balance neighborhood impacts with housing supply concerns.
Kristen read the current draft definition of short-term rental as “rental of any residential dwelling unit or portion…
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