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MEMORANDUM <br />To:Mayor Webster and St. Anthony Village City Council <br />St. Anthony Village Planning Commission <br />Charlie Yunker, City Manager <br />From:Stephen Grittman, City Planner <br />Date:Joint Work Session Meeting – October 15, 2024 <br />GC Project No.140.00 <br />Topic/Request:Rental Housing Ordinances <br />Background <br />Over the past several months, the City Council and Planning Commission have met to discuss <br />several aspects of rental housing in the Village, including a broad range of issues and potential <br />objectives for the community’s monitoring and/or regulation of rental housing. Over that <br />period, other issues have overtaken this discussion, although rental housing generally, and <br />affordable housing more specifically, has continued to be included in the annual goal-setting, <br />and was a directive of the 2040 Comprehensive Plan. <br />Aspects of the rental housing discussion have included the following. <br />Short Term Rental. The prior meetings resulted in a consensus on a few of the issues raised, <br />primarily that of Short-term rentals. This aspect of rental housing – a form of transient <br />commercial lodging – was viewed with concern primarily for maintenance, and the potential <br />disruption to the neighborhoods in which it might be located. The direction from prior Work <br />Session discussions was to create a limited allowance for such housing, but ensure that it was <br />for an extended period of time (to avoid 1- or 2-night party rentals), and to reexamine the <br />community’s monitoring of property maintenance as a component of licensing these uses. <br />Staff expects to develop a draft ordinance that establishes a minimum rental time period for <br />short-term rental for review and consideration as a part of the larger discussion on rental <br />housing. <br />Long Term Single Family Rental Housing. Policy direction for long-term rental housing was <br />generally less clear. One area of consensus was developing language to limit large-scale <br />corporate ownership of housing in the community, with more flexible views toward smaller <br />landlord entities. As noted in some of the research done on the housing rental licensing, this is <br />by far the dominant pattern of rental housing ownership in St. Anthony, with only a few of the <br />single family rental owners owning more than two units. Staff expects to develop ordinance <br />language that reflects this policy going forward.