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Parma Heights council enacts six-month moratorium on short-term rental permits and refers marijuana zoning changes to Planning Commission
Summary
At a July 29 special meeting, the Parma Heights City Council adopted a temporary moratorium of up to six months on permits for short-term rentals, referred multiple proposed amendments affecting medical marijuana operations and dispensaries to the Planning Commission, and approved several administrative ordinances and resolutions.
Parma Heights City Council on July 29, 2024, adopted a temporary moratorium, not to exceed six months, on the issuance of permits that would allow the operation of short-term rentals within the city.
Council President Tom Rounds called the special meeting to order at 6:35 p.m. Clerk Barbara Allen read the title of Resolution No. 2024-52, which places the moratorium, and Councilwoman Maruschak moved to suspend the rules and then moved for passage. Clerk Allen recorded a roll-call vote in which Councilmembers Palmisano, DeSouza, Kolezynski, Maruschak, Haase, Durichko and Rounds voted Aye and the resolution passed.
Why it matters: the moratorium pauses issuance of short-term rental permits while the city considers regulations or further action; the resolution is effective immediately as an emergency measure specified in the ordinance text read into the record.
In the same meeting, council referred three proposed ordinances that would amend local code sections tied to medical marijuana to the Planning Commission for review. Clerk Allen read: - Ordinance No. 2024-49, amending Chapter 752 (previously titled "Medical Marijuana Operations"); - Ordinance No. 2024-50, amending Chapter 1190 (previously titled "Medical Marijuana Dispensaries"); and - Ordinance No. 2024-51, amending Section 1185.02 ("Permitted Uses").
Each of those measures was moved and seconded on the floor and referred to the Planning Commission following unanimous roll-call votes recorded by Clerk Allen.
Votes at a glance • Resolution No. 2024-52 — Temporary moratorium on short-term rental permits: motion to suspend rules carried; motion to pass carried. Vote: Palmisano, DeSouza, Kolezynski, Maruschak, Haase, Durichko, Rounds — Aye. Outcome: Passed. • Ordinance No. 2024-49 — Amend Chapter 752 (Medical Marijuana Operations): motion to read by title and refer to Planning Commission. Vote: Palmisano, DeSouza, Kolezynski, Maruschak, Haase, Durichko, Rounds — Aye. Outcome: Referred to Planning Commission. • Ordinance No. 2024-50 — Amend Chapter 1190 (Medical Marijuana Dispensaries): motion to read by title and refer to Planning Commission. Vote: Kolezynski, Maruschak, Haase, Durichko, Palmisano, DeSouza, Rounds — Aye. Outcome: Referred to Planning Commission. • Ordinance No. 2024-51 — Amend Section 1185.02 (Permitted Uses): motion to read by title and refer to Planning Commission. Vote: Haase, Durichko, Palmisano, DeSouza, Kolezynski, Maruschak, Rounds — Aye. Outcome: Referred to Planning Commission. • Ordinance No. 2024-53 — Submission of charter amendment proposals to electors: motion to suspend rules and pass carried. Vote: Haase, Durichko, Palmisano, DeSouza, Kolezynski, Maruschak, Rounds — Aye. Outcome: Passed. • Ordinance No. 2024-54 — Authorize contract with Bur Oak Training, Consulting & Design, LLC: motion to suspend rules and pass carried. Vote: DeSouza, Kolezynski, Maruschak, Haase, Durichko, Palmisano, Rounds — Aye. Outcome: Passed. • Resolution No. 2024-55 — Authorize insurance expenditures via Wichert Insurance for specified carriers: motion to suspend rules and pass carried. Vote: Haase, Durichko, Palmisano, DeSouza, Kolezynski, Maruschak, Rounds — Aye. Outcome: Passed.
Other items and next steps: several ordinance referrals (the three related to medical marijuana and permitted uses) were sent to the Planning Commission for review; the council did not debate the merits on the floor at this meeting. Ordinance No. 2024-53 directs that specified charter amendments be submitted to Parma Heights electors; the ordinance text read into the record lists the charter articles and sections to be amended. Ordinance No. 2024-54 authorizes entering into a contract with Bur Oak Training, Consulting & Design, LLC; Resolution No. 2024-55 authorizes expenditures to Wichert Insurance to secure coverage from Selective Insurance Company, Cincinnati Insurance Company, Hanover Insurance Group and Lloyd's.
The special meeting adjourned at 6:44 p.m. Clerk Barbara Allen recorded the roll-call votes and Tom Rounds presided over the session. The Planning Commission will review the referred zoning and marijuana-related ordinance changes; no date for that review was specified in the meeting record.
