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Staff proposes updates to residential rules and short-term rental notices
Summary
Staff suggested clarifications to residential-use categories (including manufactured-home classifications and urban lot-size rules), limits on residential chickens, and an expanded notice radius for short-term rentals to properties within 200 feet and private-easement neighbors.
Planning staff outlined a set of proposed adjustments that affect residential uses and neighborhood-notification rules.
Miss Wright said the proposed edits clarify that certain manufactured-home classifications may include duplex units and that Plan Development districts will treat group homes as permitted where state code requires it. She also proposed streamlining side-yard setbacks in rural/residential districts to a uniform 15 feet and reducing accessory-structure side setbacks to 5 feet in some districts.
On livestock and backyard poultry, staff proposed allowing up to six adult hens with a permit in specified residential districts and reiterated a prohibition on roosters. Commissioner comment raised practical concerns about purchasing unsexed chicks and potential attrition; staff refined language to clarify the six-adult-hen threshold.
For short-term rentals, staff proposed expanding adjacent-notice requirements to include all properties within a 200-foot radius of the subject property lines and each owner along any private ingress/egress easement used for access, aiming to notify owners who experience direct impacts. "The adjacent property owner notices shall include all properties within any 200 foot radius from the property lines of the subject property," Miss Wright said. Staff also proposed that operators register for transient occupancy and state sales taxes to streamline compliance checks.
Staff said the proposals are intended to address recurring enforcement and neighbor-notification issues and will be reviewed in detail at the May 12 work session.
