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