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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes October 17, 2023 Page 2 B.1 Ordinance 2023-08 – Amending the St. Anthony City Code, by Amending Sections 2 150.124, 150.127 and 152.008 Relating to Rental Licensing Limits for Single Family 3 Detached Dwellings. 4 C.5 Ordinance 2023-09 – Amending the St. Anthony City Code, by Amending Sections 6 152.008 and 152.176 Relating to the Establishment of Sacred Settlements by 7 Conditional Use Permit. 8 9 Chair Socha opened the public hearing at 7:06 p.m. 10 11 City Planner Steven Grittman reviewed as part of the City’s ongoing examination of rental 12 residential property, and affordable housing goals overall, the City Council directed a further 13 discussion of issues related to single family rental housing in St. Anthony as a part of its 2023 14 Goal Setting. The Council discussed various aspects of the single family rental housing topic 15 at a Work Session on September 26, 2023. From that Work Session, Staff was directed to 16 prepare ordinance options creating additional limitations around the quantity and location 17 aspects of rental housing in the community. 18 19 The discussion identified a number of goals for the ordinance amendments. 20 1.21 First is the preservation of home ownership options in the community. It was noted 22 that in St. Anthony, single family housing is a relatively finite resource, and as 23 ownership of those units is transferred to non-resident owners and the units are 24 rented, the opportunities for home ownership decrease. A decrease in supply can 25 have an inflationary impact of price, counter to the City’s objectives to encourage 26 both ownership and affordability. 27 2.28 Second, the Council identified a concern related to the potential for corporate 29 single family ownership. This aspect relates to the possibility that rental housing 30 organizations with substantial resources purchase several single family homes as 31 they come to the market, converting those homes from owner-occupied to rentals. 32 There was an acknowledgement that local owners who rented only a small number 33 of homes were more likely to be local residents, and more attentive to housing 34 maintenance overall. As a result, there is an interest in limiting the total number of 35 units that any individual or party can own and operate as single family rental units 36 in the Village. 37 3.38 A third potential issue was investigated related to the aggregation of single family 39 rental units as a total number of the housing supply. A related aspect of this 40 discussion was, in part, the concentration of such units in particular 41 neighborhoods. The Council expressed an interest in limiting the total number of 42 units being rented. Council explored in their discussion the idea that to the extent 43 single family units are rented, they are relatively dispersed throughout the Village, 44 rather than concentrating in any particular neighborhood or block. 45