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Planning commission adopts amendments to short-term rental ordinance to clarify road, lot-size and proximity rules
Summary
The commission approved changes to the county short-term rental ordinance to use a functional-equivalent test for category 3 roads, allow STRs on smaller AG parcels administratively, and change neighborhood-concentration measurement from the '10 nearest dwellings as the crow flies' to a 300-foot radius.
The Humboldt County Planning Commission voted 5–0 to adopt three staff-proposed amendments to the short-term rental ordinance intended to fix implementation problems that emerged after the ordinance took effect.
Director Ford and planning staff told the commission the three targeted changes respond to “unintended consequences” encountered during administration. First, staff proposed replacing the ordinance’s strict engineering requirement that access roads be ‘‘built to a category 3 standard’’ with a…
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