The Planning and Zoning Commission of Columbia, Missouri, held a regular meeting on Thursday, April 9, 2026, at 7:00 PM in City Hall Council Chambers. The meeting focused on two public hearings for short-term rental (STR) conditional use permits, followed by public comments, staff reports, and commissioner discussions. The meeting adjourned at 9:03 PM.
Do you have any abstentions? Okay. Um case 106-2026. A request by Laurie Cook, agent on behalf of the Cook Family Revocable Living Trust to allow 2208 Concordia Drive to be used as a 210 night maximum eight guest short-term rental pursuant to Section 29-3.3 V V and Section 29-6.4 Section M Part 2 of the Unified Development Code. The point 32 acre subject site is located southwest southeast of intersectional Concordia Drive and Lock Lane. May I have a staff report, please? Yes, you may. Thank you for the introduction there. To reiterate, this is a conditioning use permit for a short-term rental license for 2208 Concordia Drive. The site is 32.32 acres in size. And then an ad was ran in the Tribune on the 24th of March. The subject site is located on the southeast corner of the Concordia Drive and Lock Lane intersection. Concordia Drive is a local residential street that permits on-street parking, though does not have sidewalks installed. The surrounding properties have single family residences on them and are zoned R1. The property in question is zoned R1 as well and is not the applicant's primary residence. This is a four-bedroom, two-bathroom dwelling. With the eight requested guests, there are four parking spaces required to be on site, though the site currently only has three parking spaces until one additional UDC compliant on-site parking space is added. Six guests would be the maximum that the property can support. This property has not previously been offered as a short-term rental, nor are there additional short-term rentals within 300 feet of the subject site. Eleven of the 19 surrounding properties also appear to be owner-occupied dwellings. The designated agent lives in Columbia, 8.9 miles or roughly 16 minutes from the subject site. We found no violations on file for the site, and we received three general information phone calls just asking what the request was about. The conditional use permit analysis supports the approval of the request. The short-term rental regulations would provide an oversight and means to address any impacts that would be imposed by the operation of the short-term rental, and the approval would support broad policy strategies and actions of the comprehensive plan. Staff's approval is to uh staff's recommendation is to approve the requested short-term rental conditional use permit subject to a maximum occupancy of six transient guests, maximum of two hundred or ten nights of annual rental usage, followed by a maximum of eight transient guests subject to the installation of one additional UDC compliant on-site parking space. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Okay. Staff questions. Are you aware of any uh conversations from the applicant on how the parking would look or the layout or have they provided anything? No, that has not been previously discussed, though they would not be able to exceed 30 percent of their front yard uh to be paved. So that'd be the one little caveat to an addition of parking. Thank you. Questions for staff. We are talking as a group, we have six minutes or the oh yeah, one at a time, please. I'm just we're okay I'm Lori Cook, and this is my husband. Yeah, one's gonna talk to the other have to sit down to if you're talking as the owner of a group, you've got six minutes. If you're talking as an individual, you have three. Okay, please state your name and address for our recorder, please. Okay, my name is Kent Cook, and that was my wife Lori. Uh the properties of 2208. We currently live at 4001 South Nebo Cemetery, Columbia. Uh we've lived in the Columbia area uh since the 1980s. Um first off, I'm gonna thank the committee for uh considering our application, and I ask your patiences. This is the first time I've been up here, so uh bear with me. Um we've owned the property since 2015. It's been a long-term rental for most of that time. Uh we recently last May converted to a furnished rental targeting mid to long-term rentals. Our desire to get approval for the short-term rental is to have an available option to use as a gap between the midterm leases. That's our intention. Uh we don't intend to use it as a primary uh short-term rental.