Toquerville council approves nightly rental for Jeffrey Thomas with tenant map requirement

The Toquerville City Council on an unspecified April meeting approved a nightly rental application submitted by Jeffrey Thomas for a single-family home in the Cholla area that is not part of the surrounding homeowners association (HOA).

The council action followed a unanimous planning commission recommendation to approve the permit with a condition that the applicant provide tenants with information that distinguishes public from private HOA property and show a map depicting HOA private parcels. Planning staff told the council the applicant met zoning requirements for the R-1-20 single-family zone and that the planning commission added the map requirement after receiving HOA concerns at the planning commission public hearing.

At the council meeting, Thomas told the council he was completing an addition and intended to begin renting once construction is finished. “We are in the midst of finishing that up,” Thomas said. Councilmembers discussed HOA members’ concerns that renters might use private HOA parks near the property; staff described the property as a non-HOA parcel situated inside an HOA boundary.

Councilmembers discussed possible conditions including a no-pet restriction and a complaint-based sanction process; the council did not impose a citywide pet ban. The planning commission’s map-and-notice recommendation was carried into the council’s approval and the motion was amended during discussion to include language directing that tenants be informed not to use HOA private property as shown on a provided map.

A motion to approve the nightly rental permit was made and seconded; the council conducted a roll-call vote and the motion carried. The motion text recorded at the meeting named the applicant and the tax ID (recorded verbally as “T‑TACCDash2” in the transcript). The council and staff noted the city code allows license revocation if a rental becomes a nuisance, and members discussed but did not adopt a fixed-number complaint threshold in the approval.

The approval leaves the record open to future enforcement action under city code if the rental becomes a nuisance, and it requires the applicant to supply tenants with the map and instructions about private HOA land.

Details remaining unspecified in the meeting record: the council did not publish a numeric vote tally in the transcript, did not record an explicit effective date for the permit, and did not adopt a formal pet prohibition in the ordinance language — the applicant stated he did not intend to allow pets.