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Planning commission moves short‑term rental draft toward public hearing, asks staff for licensing data
Summary
Traverse City planners reviewed a draft zoning amendment that would lower vacation‑home rental caps in several districts and asked staff and the clerk’s office to compile licensing and nonconforming‑use data ahead of a likely public hearing on April 15.
The Traverse City Planning Commission continued its multimonth discussion of short‑term rental rules on March 18, agreed to move the draft zoning changes toward a public hearing and requested several data sets from staff and the clerk’s office before public notice.
Planning Director Brian Winter presented a draft ordinance that reduces permitted shares of vacation home rentals in several zoning districts (the draft in the packet included examples such as 25% for C4C versus 50% for C4A and C4B, a negotiated 35% for certain community center districts and an unchanged 100% in the HR district). Winter said the planning commission narrowed its focus to vacation home rentals (whole‑unit rentals) as defined in…
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