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Council members ask staff to draft short-term rental permit program after complaints about parties
Summary
Council members discussed local regulation of short-term rentals, including creating a permit with conditions (noise curfew, no street parking) and enforcement tied to removal of listings; staff was asked to return with a rough outline for a permit program.
Council members discussed local options for regulating short-term rentals after residents raised problems with parties and neighborhood disruption. Council members said they do not want an outright ban but want stronger local controls.
“If you do a short term rental to come get a permit. And if you do something that violates that, then your permit is removed,” one council member said during the discussion, proposing conditions such as a noise curfew, limits on street parking and immediate permit revocation for violations. The same speaker suggested that listing platforms should be required to remove noncompliant rentals from their websites after notification.
Staff and councilors also referenced pending state legislation on the topic; one council member said a bill recently scanned by staff included provisions for notifying rent-listing platforms to remove ads for noncompliant units. Council members asked staff to draft a “rough outline” of a local permit program and return to the council for direction, with enforcement measures tied to both local penalties and de-listing from booking platforms where allowed by state law. No final action or ordinance was adopted at the meeting.
