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Former Chandler resident tells council city failed to enforce short-term rental rules, requests memo
Summary
A resident who said his family sold their home in Chandler told the council their neighborhood suffered ongoing short-term rental violations and alleged staff and officials failed to act; the mayor asked the city manager to provide a memo on the case.
A former Chandler resident told the City Council on April 10 that the city did not adequately enforce code and short-term rental regulations in his neighborhood and urged the council to revisit his case.
"My name is Paul Pavlich. I live at 1313 East Tyson Street in Chandler," Paul Pavlich said during an unscheduled public comment. He later said, "I should have stated that we used to live there." Pavlich described what he called "ongoing, verified, quality of life deteriorating, violations of city code, and short term rental regulations," and said his family exhausted available options before selling their home.
Pavlich criticized elected officials and city staff by name. He told the council: "Specifically, mayor Kevin Hartke, you feigned interest in resolving this before and after the January meeting and took no action. Council members Orlando and Poston ... both of you gave me your word and personal contact information to resolve this, yet did nothing when contacted. Vice mayor Ellis ... we attended your campaign events ... and you've let us down." He also named Neighborhood Resources Director Leah Powell, Business Compliance Administrator Bonnie Boddy and Public Affairs Senior Manager Alexis Abadoka as staff he said were "involved in backdoor coordination with the violator to hide former and ongoing violations," and said city staff described the city's approach as "education first."
After Pavlich concluded his three-minute comment, Mayor Kevin Hartke asked the city manager to provide council with a memo outlining what the city had done in the case. Hartke said, "And city manager, I know that we had conversations about this... Could you please send a memo out to council regarding what we did do related to this particular case?"
Pavlich said he first raised the matter at the Jan. 23 council meeting and asked the public to review his earlier remarks; he said multiple departments had been involved in his attempts to resolve the issue and that the process he was advised to follow was ineffective. He closed by saying that he and his family had sold their home and were no longer Chandler residents, and urged the council to take action for other residents experiencing similar problems.
The council did not debate the substance of Pavlich’s allegations during the meeting. No formal council action or vote on enforcement policy was taken on April 10; the mayor’s request to the city manager is a direction to staff to provide information to council.
