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Committee adopts initial amendments to allow interim housing in hotels for a sober-living pilot, continues remainder for Planning review
Summary
The committee adopted a first set of non-substantive amendments narrowing an interim-housing-for-hotels ordinance to permit a specific sober-living pilot and required further referral of substantive changes to the Planning Commission; the ordinance was continued to March 17.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee on March 10 adopted an initial package of amendments to an ordinance that would allow hotels and motels to be used for interim housing without abandoning their tourist-hotel classification, and continued the ordinance to March 17 so substantive changes can go to the Planning Commission.
Deputy Director Emily Cohen of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing described the ordinance as a tool to incentivize hotel owners to partner with the city to provide interim housing. She said the ordinance would allow a hotel owner to apply to establish interim housing without undergoing a process that would make it difficult to regain tourist status later. Cohen said the ordinance was intended to broaden where interim housing can be located and to align with recent state actions that support use of underused hotels…
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