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Council discusses caps, curfews and occupancy limits for short-term rentals
Summary
Staff reviewed proposed short-term rental changes including a radius-based cap, owner-occupancy clarifications, and quiet-hours enforcement. Council and residents urged clearer occupancy limits and stronger language on large gatherings and pets; a public hearing was set for April 1.
City planner McCain Yolstein summarized requested edits to Manti’s short-term rental ordinance at the March 4 meeting, including a radius-based cap intended to limit the concentration of STRs in a neighborhood and clarifications for owner-occupied units.
"Section number 7, we changed the limit of total number of short-term rentals to X from the radius from existing short-term rentals," Yolstein said, describing the mapping approach and noting the intent was to maintain roughly one STR per block front in many areas.
Council members and residents raised enforcement and nuisance concerns. A council member noted the draft’s disturbing-the-peace provision (quiet after 10 p.m. until 6 a.m.) and asked if the morning end time should be 7 a.m.; the council discussed whether that should mirror existing municipal noise rules. Another member highlighted the unresolved question of allowable occupancy and pointed to a county rule that treats properties with more than five bedrooms as hotels.
"When you start having literally 40 or 50 people show up ... your residential area is not residential anymore," a council member said, urging a clear cap or definition to prevent large retreats in residential neighborhoods.
A resident, Sean Olsen, told the council he had witnessed STRs hosting large groups, extra vehicles and generator use and said curfew rules alone may be inadequate. Planning staff acknowledged the challenge of enforcing occupancy limits and said they would consider an absolute cap on the number of occupants per property in addition to noise and curfew rules.
The council also discussed animal-control language (requiring compliance with leash laws) and how the radius is calculated (using the parcel’s geographic center in GIS). Staff said they will draft clearer lodging/STR definitions and consider an explicit occupancy limit and enforcement language ahead of an April 1 public hearing.
No ordinance was adopted at the meeting; staff will return with revised language to address occupancy and enforcement concerns.
