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San Bernardino council introduces ordinance to regulate short‑term rentals, schedules second reading
Summary
City staff presented Ordinance MC1660 to regulate short‑term rentals. Councilmembers debated enforcement capacity, potential revenue and monitoring costs, then voted to introduce the ordinance by title and continue the hearing with a second reading set for March.
San Bernardino city staff opened a public hearing Tuesday and introduced Ordinance MC1660, a package of proposed amendments to the city’s development code intended to regulate or prohibit short‑term rentals in residential zones. Staff framed three options — prohibition, a regulatory registration model, or no action — and presented estimates for revenue and enforcement costs.
The staff presentation said a regulated program could yield transient occupancy tax revenue in the low hundreds of thousands annually while creating administrative and enforcement costs. Staff cited a monitoring contract with an annual maintenance cost of about $7,500 and said that adding registration to TOT…
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