I'm going to go ahead and call our working session to order, our work session to order.

This meeting will not go till 1 a.m.

We have a hard stop at 8 o'clock, and we will stop at 8 o'clock or earlier.

So we'll go ahead and turn it over to Clint.

All right.

Thank you.

So tonight we'll be having a work session over some proposed short-term rental amendments.

So these ordinance amendments were drafted approximately a year ago, but I'll just kind of go through a real quick recap of kind of the topics we're going to discuss tonight.

One, I'll do a kind of a brief recap, I think, of the amendments.

I think we do have maybe one new new individual since then.

So if there's some additional questions that we can provide some context, I'm happy to do so.

We have uh representatives from our housing and neighborhood services department here tonight as well.

They'll be discussing a little bit about the enforcement side of short-term rentals.

That was something that came up at the work uh session in March.

So they'll be detailing a little bit of uh their side and how they look at the application administration of some of the short-term rental uh regulations.

Um and then there's some uh some data uh and some information uh that was requested from that work session in March.

We'll go through that, kind of look at some of the statistics, um, some of the kind of disbursement of some of the short-term rentals here in town, uh, and then also there was some uh questions about the revenue, so we do have a slide on that as well.

And so there's a list of attachments on the right.

We won't go through each of those individually.

Um there's some information we provided uh in response, I think, to some of the March um uh requests, as well as some of the information we also provided in March as well, including the um correspondence we'd received from the public during the initial public hearing, um PNC correspondence that kind of um outlines the the proposed changes at that time, kind of gives some context on on why they were doing that uh and some of the um solutions that were uh proposed at that time.

Uh there's a flow chart as well and some other information.

So uh just quick project history.

I'm not gonna read all this either.

Um, but generally the short-term rental um uh rental regulations, uh they became effective in uh mid-2024, so June 2024, mid-2025.

Um there was a year in review um meeting or uh proposal, not a proposal, but a presentation at council conversation at that point kind of focused on perhaps looking at streamlining the short-term rental process, uh perhaps making the regulatory process more streamlined.

Um I think in regards to especially the conditional use process, uh, which does add a layer of complexity to uh the short-term rental license process.

Um that um additional um amendments to the short-term rental uh kind of went through the plan zoning process, uh was approved by planning zoning in June 2025.

Uh we had a work session uh earlier this year, again in March 26th to look at those amendments uh and continue till tonight.

So that's kind of where we pick up the conversation.

Uh again, just kind of recap some of the goals from that mid-2025 conversation that staff had with council.

Um was looking really to reduce the complexity.

There was multiple tiers to the short-term rental program.

Uh, and within those tiers, there's also some additional layers.

Um, there's different day um kind of thresholds for in inside those tiers.

So that was one goal was look at seeing if we could simplify kind of the regulatory um framework.

Um also creating more direct path licensure, and that speaks a little bit more to that conditional use process as you're familiar with, conditional use versus administrative.

Those are really the two pathways to getting a license within the community.

Administrative uh is something that is generally reviewed by our staff and and issued, usually a business license, and then also rental compliance license by our H and S staff without a public process.

The conditional use process adds several months to that, requires public hearings and eventually uh requires a discretionary hearing and approval by city council.

So it definitely includes uh longer time frames and some of that uncertainty that goes along with that process.

Um the overall the goals over to kind of retain uh kind of what we call the integrity of what was established.

So retain kind of some of those um night limit thresholds within the code itself.

So this amendments really we're looking at uh there's a 30-day option that we were looking to really combined with other ones, and we'll talk about that a little bit with some of the graphics I have.

Um, but really kind of simplifying the the how many nights are allowed and kind of combining some of those tiers into one to make it a little simpler to understand, simpler to administer.

Um by doing that, we also looked at the conditional use.

So when you have a conditional use, there's usually requirements or triggers, right?

What triggers someone to need a conditional use?

Um so that's really the I think the key, kind of the principal factor that we'll be looking at tonight.

What are those conditional use factors?

What requires someone getting a license to go through that?

And so we are proposing changes to that.

Those are probably the most significant change within those uh purported amendments.

So it's really moving away from a uh looking at the ownership, whether it's a a long-term or an owner-occupant versus someone who isn't owner-occupant being the threshold to being a threshold of specific factors that come into play that might that might result in council wanting to be able to evaluate a certain property, and so it's more of an outcome-based review.

So if is there is this property within 300 feet of another one, that could trigger coming through conditional use process and whether there are code violations.

And those are the two things I think through staff's experience in this have been really the main topics of conversation.

And so it makes sense to say if those are the things that people are most concerned about, those might likely be the best reasons to facilitate uh a license being elevated from an administrative to a conditional use permit.

Um you might recognize this chart.

Uh, this is really where we spend a lot of time in March, and it's kind of our attempt to simplify really the changes.

So I'll just spend kind of a few minutes, I think, getting everyone back up to speed with really the regulations that we have now uh and what we're proposing to change.

So the left chart is where we're at now, and that's our current tier system and our current night limits, and the right would be our amended um tier system.