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<br />PAGE | 2 OF 8 <br /> <br />o An aspect of long-term rental housing has focused more specifically on issues of <br />single family home rentals in the community, as well as how or whether the City <br />should work on limiting renter-occupancies for this particular class of housing. <br />Previous discussions included segmenting the City in neighborhood zones, where <br />each zone would have a limit of long-term single family home rentals. <br />• Affordable Housing Issues <br />o Affordability is an overarching discussion, implicating housing tenure (renter- <br />occupied v. ownership), housing style, and many other factors. Affordability <br />strategies can be tailored to specific types of housing, and specific housing <br />tenures. <br />• Rental Housing Management and Licensing (Admin) <br />o Apart from the policy issues above, there is an administrative side of this <br />discussion, which needs to be addressed, regardless of the policies pursued. <br />In this report, staff has attempted to summarize relevant factors for each of the categories of <br />discussion. Support materials include: <br /> Draft Ordinance for Short-term rental licensing (based on Roseville model). <br /> Draft Ordinance for Long-term rental licensing (based on prior discussions). <br /> Map of percentages of rental single family housing, broken down by 4 neighborhood <br />zones for comparison purposes. This map was produced as an illustration of the <br />distribution of rental SFH, based on prior discussions indicating an interest in limiting <br />rental SFH by general area. <br /> Summary of follow-up steps, including administrative updates and regulations that <br />would be a component of an ordinance addressing housing. <br /> Sample material relating to other communities’ affordable housing initiatives. <br />o Minnetonka Affordable Housing Policy <br />o Bloomington Opportunity Housing Ordinance Handout (full ordinance online) <br /> <br />Short-Term Rental. Previous discussions resulted in a general consensus on a few of the issues <br />raised, 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 designed to limit <br />potential for disruption to neighborhoods in which it was located. <br />At the time of those discussions, Roseville was working on Short-term rental licensing <br />regulations, due to a number of problem properties. The initial Roseville approach was to <br />require Short-term rental stays to be a minimum number of days, with the idea that single- <br />night stays were most likely to invite “party house” usage. <br />After a brief period with this sort of regulation, and input from owners, Roseville switched their <br />approach to make three significant changes to their licensing regulations. These are (1) Renters <br />are limited to a family, or up to 4 unrelated individuals; and (2) No license may be issued for a <br />6