Planning Commission Recommended Code Changes for Vacation Rentals
Over-concentration and Commercialization
Recommended: Adopt new Vacation Rental Exclusion Combining Zone
- Incorporated: New "X" Combining Zone - Exhibit C
Recommended: Require a Use Permit for Vacation Rentals with more than 4 bedrooms
- Incorporated: Exhibit E
Neighborhood Compatibility
Recommended: Limit on number of vehicles – no more than 1 per bedroom
- Incorporated: Exhibit E
Recommended: Prohibit Events in all vacation rentals
- Incorporated: Exhibit E
Recommended: Reduced quiet hours to 10PM – 7AM
- Incorporated: Exhibit E
Recommended: No outdoor activities during quiet hours (10PM – 7AM)
- Incorporated: Exhibit E
Recommended: Regulate outdoor fires - size, location, cover required
- Incorporated: Exhibit E
Preserve Housing Stock
Recommended: Prohibit new vacation rentals in the R1 zone unless they are also within the Visitor Residential (VR) Combining Zone
- Incorporated: Ordinance Section IV replaces allowance for Vacation Rentals with Hosted Rentals in the R1. Section VIII allows continued use in R1 unless revoked or sold. See also X Combining Zone – Exhibit C and VR Visitor Residential Combining Zone, Exhibit B
Expanding Opportunities
Recommended: Allow hosted rentals in R1
- Incorporated: Ordinance Section IV
Recommended: Allow vacation rentals in C2
- Incorporated: Ordinance Section III
Recommended: Allow vacation rentals in LC
- Incorporated: Ordinance Section III
Recommended: Allow vacation rentals in K
- Incorporated:Ordinance Section III
Recommended: Allow hosted rentals in guest houses
- Incorporated: Amend definition of Guest house to allow them to be occupied separately, and add a new definition of Hosted Rental - see Exhibit A
Recommended: Adopt new VR Visitor Residential Combining Zone
- Incorporated: Exhibit B
Level the Playing Field
Recommended: Require certified Property Managers
- Incorporated: Exhibit E
Recommended: Certified Property Managers to live within 30 miles
- Incorporated: Exhibit E
Recommended: Require reporting of complaints and responses to PRMD website
- Incorporated: Exhibit E
Recommended: Require ads and internet listings to include limits
- Incorporated:Application Submittal Requirement
Recommended: Property Report Checklist
- Incorporated: Exhibit E
Code Enforcement
Recommended: Impose larger penalty
- Incorporated: Exhibit E
Recommended: 2 year term for permits
- Incorporated: Exhibit E
Recommended: Citation program
- Incorporated: Exhibit E
Recommended: 3 strikes summary revocation
- Incorporated: Exhibit E
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