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They pertain to the proposed code amendments to Section 12-103 of terms of chapter 12, uh excuse me, of Chapter 46 supplemental use regulations of the code of the city of Kearney, and that they were postponed from the January 13th meeting as a reminder, planning commission by majority of vote, approved the original code amendments at their December 19th, 2025 meeting.

Melissa.

Melissa Doherty, city planner.

So as you stated, these were postponed from the January 13th meeting.

Um hearing the feedback from that meeting and additional feedback that we heard from city council members.

We essentially went in and revised three points of the short-term rental code.

I'm just gonna run through my presentation real quick to clarify what we've changed and not change.

Um under Chapter 46-103 AMB, clarifying the residential units in downtown, no changes.

Um that table 46-1 with the regarding group density requirements, no changes.

And again, that's no changes from what we discussed two weeks ago.

Correct.

I just want to make sure because these are actually changes to get to what we all too, yes.

They're not changes of the changes, they're just the changes.

Okay, okay.

Um, so then when we get into the short-term rental, um, we didn't provide any changes to the definitions under chapter 12 for short-term rental or the sleeping areas.

Um, what we did change is some of the regulations under the supplemental guidelines.

So what we've updated and hearing feedback was the maximum occupancy.

We've no longer have a cap at 12.

Your maximum occupancy for your short-term rental is based on the number of sleeping areas times the two occupants.

So if you have a six-bedroom house with potentially four um areas that quantify as a sleeping area, that's 10 sleeping areas times two.

So the max occupancy on that dwelling would be 20 occupants.

Um, after hearing feedback from the public regarding our application fees, um, we have revised those.

So the first year the application fee and permit will be a hundred dollars, and then the annual renewal fee will be twenty-five dollars.

Then lastly, we revised the language regarding verified complaints to essentially remove the word noise because that was causing a lot of confusion about what would be considered a complaint versus a non-complaint or how many complaints.

So we still left it at the three strikes you're out rule, and we move the word noise to just say verified code complaints.

And one thing on the that I just want to highlight too is that it's the three strikes and you're out within a calendar year.

So, you know, we again could have complaints a couple years ago, maybe two, and then next year we have one more.

That's not your third strike, right?

Start the clock starts over.

Yep.

All righty, and that concludes the changes that we're bringing forward for this meeting.

Um, again, I've just put up the short-term rentals FAQs, they're gonna be issued annually.

There is the 60-day compliance period once we approve them today.

If they are approved today, um, there's no inspections required for the permit approval.

However, if you would like us to do a no-charge consultation inspection, we are more than happy to come out and do that.

Basements, living rooms, and other areas with two means of egress can be considered part of those sleeping areas.

Um, again, the complaints are verified by code enforcement, and operators will be allowed to address such complaints.

So just because we're getting calls that your that short-term rental is too noisy, does not mean that that is a verified complaint.

We will go out and investigate that.

Either have contact the police department or we'll go out ourselves and verify what's going on on the property.

And again, there's no regulations included that limits the number of short-term rentals or the number of short-term rentals owned by an individual.

And then I judge provide the occupancy requirements example again, and I can answer any questions.

Okay.

Any questions for Melissa?

Thank you.

And I I I appreciate the extra work that kind of went through and all the revisions and things like that that we've kind of done in the last couple of weeks.

I thought we had a really good dialogue.

Yeah.

I I appreciate the uh openness to review some of the things that we suggested, and so appreciate that.

Yeah, I met with one individual who came in after we kind of discussed through the changes, and he had a really good edit about the noise complaint, so we took that under consideration and a couple of phone calls as well.

There, and essentially after speaking with all three individuals, they essentially supported the changes that we were proposing.