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Riverbank holds workshop on short‑term rental rules; staff to draft ordinance
Summary
City staff and a land‑use consultant briefed council on options for regulating short‑term rentals (Airbnb/VRBO). Council directed staff to prepare a draft ordinance for single‑family districts and PD zones, include annual renewals and permitting, and return with data on counts, complaints and enforcement options.
City of Riverbank officials on April 22 held a workshop on a proposed short‑term rental ordinance and asked staff to prepare a draft for council review.
Joshua Mann, the city’s director of community development, opened the discussion and introduced David Niskin of JB Anderson Land Use Planning, who outlined key policy choices for council members and the public. Niskin defined short‑term rentals as “the use of any dwelling or portions thereof for dwelling, sleeping, or lodging purposes for 30 consecutive days or less,” and described how neighboring jurisdictions handle the use, from Modesto’s transient occupancy registration to Lodi’s home‑occupation approach.
The council’s central questions were whether to permit short‑term rentals only in single‑family zoning (R‑1) and PD plan‑development districts, whether to set a numerical cap on citywide…
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