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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes October 17, 2023 Page 9 1 nuisance and some communities have implemented a night minimum. One idea would be a 2 two night minimum. She would like to hear more from the community on this matter. 3 4 Commissioner Erickson stated he does not have a strong opinion one way or another. St. 5 Anthony is unique in that 55% of the housing in the City is multi-family rental housing. 6 Allowing short term rentals would take away from the availability of those 2100 single family 7 units. 8 9 Chair Socha stated she feels strongly she does not like the perpetual short term rentals. In her 10 travels she has spoken to locals saying they are homeless because the rentals are for tourists. 11 She suggested a two week exception might be a good idea. If properties have a license they 12 should be grandfathered in and able to continue. She would like to hear more resident input. 13 There could be a fine for doing this without a license. 14 15 Commissioner Kuykendall agreed on the limits on the amount of time and suggested a five 16 night minimum. Overnight is too short. 17 18 Commissioner Rude stated this could be a business. He asked why we are defining residential 19 use. Mr. Grittman stated occupancy of a residential structure does not mean they are residing 20 there. We are adopting something here that doesn’t fit the Code. A dwelling unit is defined 21 where a single family lives there. Mr. Grittman stated with the word resident is used it is 22 suggesting a long term resident. 23 24 Chair Socha stated she likes the idea of a survey and suggested someone on staff put together 25 some questions regarding either supporting or not supporting short term rentals. Ms. Miller 26 stated she will need to discuss with the City Manager. This type of outreach has not been done 27 in the past. The questions should be reviewed by the Commission and the City Council before 28 being sent out. Chair Socha stated she would like to hear options available for such a survey. 29 30 Commissioner Erickson stated there is a consensus on getting community feedback. 31 32 Commissioner Rude suggested going with six months and leaving it at that. Easier to just say 33 no. There are hotels all around that are available for short term rentals. 34 35 Chair Socha noted the three options that could be presented to the community would be it is 36 not allowed at all, perpetual use allowed but limiting, or occasional use. What occasional 37 would look like has a few options. 38 39 Chair Socha introduced the next topic for discussion – the single family home rental 40 restrictions. 41 42 Commissioner Kuykendall stated he owns rental units in other cities. Rental licenses are low 43 compared to where he has his units. This is difficult for him because this City is different from 44 where his rentals are located. He does not believe he is in favor of restricting individual 45 ownership rentals but he is in favor of corporations not having a huge stock in renting units.