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Council adopts broad development‑code updates including short‑term rental rules
Summary
After a series of planning commission hearings, the council closed testimony and voted to adopt code amendments to update definitions, adopt short‑term rental rules (a 250‑foot concentration limit) and make multiple housekeeping and statutory compliance changes into Ordinance 2025‑04.
The La Pine City Council closed the public hearing on a comprehensive text amendment (file TA‑25‑0002) to Part 3 of the La Pine Development Code and voted to adopt the planning commission's recommendation into Ordinance 2025‑04.
Staff (speaker 8) summarized the record: the amendments update definitions (including short‑term rental definitions), remove outdated citations, add objective criteria and add a short‑term rental concentration limit of 250 feet. Staff noted the proposed short‑term rental rules are primarily modeled on the City of Sisters and that existing short‑term rentals established before a legally established date of January 1, 2026, would be subject to confirmation through a declaratory ruling.
There was no public testimony at the hearing. After deliberation the council moved, seconded and approved the text amendment as recommended by the planning commission, and then approved Ordinance 2025‑04 on the first reading by unanimous roll call.
Councilors emphasized that the amendments were intended to bring city code into compliance with state statutes and to provide clearer, objective criteria to guide future land‑use decisions.
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