Let's get going.

It's uh three o'clock.

Miss Foster, please do roll call.

Commissioner London.

Present.

Commissioner Sowell.

Sorry.

Commissioner Garza.

Here.

Commissioner Moore.

Commissioner Klein.

Could you say more?

Here.

So I've got Commissioner Moore as here.

Commissioner Klein.

Here.

Commissioner Martin.

Commissioner Gurke.

Here.

Okay, first thing approval of the agenda.

Do agendas in front of us.

Do I have a motion?

Motion.

Motion for approval by Commissioner London.

Second by Commissioner Moore.

Approval of minutes from February eleventh, two thousand twenty-six.

Second.

Second by Commissioner Moore.

All those in favor.

So uh this has been a little bit of a process incoming.

I know you've been waiting for it, and I'm hoping you had a chance to read my email and the attachments I sent uh a week or two ago with some sample ordinances and if you needed to to look at some other ordinances as well.

But um after some initial feedback and some review, I put together two kind of alternative proposals for you guys.

They're both contained in ordinance form and require the or and contain the necessary and required revisions to the code to accomplish what we're trying to do.

As you all know, there they're currently short-term rentals are approved through a conditional use application.

And so I'll start by talking about the permit option ordinance and how that works and how it differs from what we're currently doing.

So to begin, it would uh it would change the definition of short-term rentals.

We've adopted the state statute and both the ordinances read the same in a lot of ways that I'll explain in a second.

But uh one way is that they both adopt the state statute definition for short-term rental, and it's short, so I'll read it to you.

Uh it's the use of a residential dwelling unit or a portion thereof for lodging whenever such dwelling unit is rented for 29 calendar days or less.

So with the permit option, what we would do is we would start with the UDO, we'd start with the table of allowed uses.

We would replace uh under the short-term rental classification, we would replace conditional use with permitted, and then we would have a permit application.

Uh we would also require a business registration for anyone that wants to operate a short-term rental.

We're going to do a separate ordinance that I have a copy if you'd like to see that amends our lodgers tax code in chapter three.

It's not really within the P and Z's purview because it doesn't deal with the UDO, but uh regardless of which option you choose, we'll be amending the lodgers tax portion of our ordinance to include short-term rentals.

So it references that.

And you would essentially just pay an application for a permit fee.

I'm sorry, you would essentially just make an application for a permit.

There would be a permit uh fee associated with that.

Uh the permit itself would require certain information you can see on the ordinance, of course, name and address of the property owner, uh 24 hour contact for anyone in charge of the short-term rental, uh, a floor plan so we know how many bedrooms there are, and then of course the fee.

Uh the permit duration would be for one year.

Uh there was also language that I added that um the city can terminate the permit if there's a violation of city codes, ordinances, or other law, and if there is a termination that there can be appeal to the city commission for that.

The ordinance imposes uh a number of rules that I sort of gathered from the other examples I took and and narrowed them down to to tailor it to Clovis.

Uh but some of the basic ones that that are in all the different examples that are contained in your uh in both um ordinance options.

Uh the first one would be an occupancy rule, and so the occupancy li occupancy limit would be two times uh basically two people for every number of bedrooms that are, excluding children 15 years of age or under.

Uh there would be a provision in there regarding loud noises and uh uh essentially a quiet hour between 10 p.m.

and 9 a.m.

There's a provision in there that requires short-term rentals to be cleaned and disinfected.

Uh there's a provision in there that you cannot park an RV or trailer uh on the property of a short-term rental while you're renting it.

There's provisions that require fire extinguishers, uh smoker smoke alarms, and then I I believe a scaled floor plan or a floor plan.

And so what someone would do is they would just get at the application, they would fill out their permit, uh, someone from the city or city fire department or or building safety would go inspect the premises, then we would grant the permit uh if they met all the conditions and paid the fee, and they would begin to use it as a as a short-term rental.