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Planning staff delivers redline changes to short-term rental rules; commissioners ask for clarifications
Summary
Staff presented a redline of supplemental regulations for short-term rentals, clarifying bedroom caps, access from private drives, penalties (state code $500 fine noted), ownership-change rules and definitions; commissioners asked for clearer crosswalks where commercial parcels are treated differently.
Planning staff presented a cleaned-up redline of short-term rental supplemental regulations and walked commissioners through substantive edits and comments from county legal counsel.
Key clarifications included a cap on bedrooms (no more than three in the by-right form), access requirements for private drives (clarifying when an STR serving more than two dwellings requires an SUP), reformatting and cross-references for commercial parcels, and a state-code maximum fine of $500 for registration violations. Staff noted new comments in purple in the draft indicate edits from the county attorney and asked commissioners to flag items needing more discussion, including how commercial parcels interact with supplemental regs.
Commissioners also discussed a proposed definition for "minor children" (a proposal to define as age six and under was raised) and asked for clearer language on how ownership transfers (individual to LLC, LLC changes) affect the two-year ownership requirement in the supplemental rules. Staff said the draft will be sent to the county attorney for review and that additional changes will be circulated prior to the next meeting.
