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Planning commissioners prepare letter asking trustees to reconsider short‑term rental approach for ADUs
Summary
After Board of Trustees moved to allow short‑term rentals (STRs) in accessory dwelling units and to ease some parking rules, Planning & Zoning commissioners said that diverging from the commission’s workforce‑housing focus risks undermining ADU goals and agreed to draft a joint letter urging reconsideration before the trustees' March 24 meeting.
Commissioners used the March 12 meeting to summarize the Board of Trustees’ initial review of the commission’s ADU recommendations and to formalize a response after trustees took a different direction on several key points.
Staff told the commission the trustees were more cautious about allowing ADUs in duplexes, more permissive about reduced parking for small ADUs (suggesting zero parking for some one‑bedroom ADUs and one parking space for two‑bedroom units in some locations), and did not support a prohibition on short‑term rentals in ADUs.…
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