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PAGE | 3 OF 8 Short-term rental property that is less than 500 feet from another such licensed property; and (3) Rental periods may be for as little as one day, but rental contracts for any individual location may only be issued once every 7 or 10 days, depending on whether the rental period is during the winter (7 days) or summer (10 days). An advantage of this approach is that the City is less directly involved in monitoring the length of stay. “Creative” opportunities to work around this regulation are noted. The adopted approach reduces the constant churn of new short-term tenants which, it turns out, was among the most objectionable aspect of the prior licensing standard. These factors, in addition to an extensive set of application and renewal requirements, have resulted in a total of 10 licenses within the City of Roseville. Since the time of these regulations (a little over one year) the city staff reports no further problems with this use. They related that complaints, police calls, and other problems have largely been extinguished since the new language has been adopted. Accompanying this memorandum is a proposed ordinance for review and discussion, based largely on the Roseville model now in effect. A separate memorandum is also included which discusses the specific elements of the proposed ordinance. It should be noted that this ordinance references long-term rental licensing as a baseline. Staff has been working through St. Anthony’s rental licensing regulations and has recommendations for updating that would be incorporated into the short-term licensing. Long Term Rental. Policy direction for long-term rental housing has posed greater difficulties in identifying a consensus strategy. Issues and discussion have included (1) Working toward the creation of affordable housing opportunities; (2) Identifying strategies that can foster “Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing” (NOAH), through home ownership; (3) Balancing impacts of market influences with local regulations; (4) Potential use of outside agencies or strategies that could realistically assist St. Anthony in reaching its goals as they may be defined. Affordable housing efforts are being pursued on various fronts, including investigation of opportunities for development of the City-owned site on Stinson Boulevard and other projects. In the rental context, the City has focused largely on if and how the City might consider limitations on rental of its single family housing stock. An outline of an ordinance approach is provided below, with ordinance language to be developed once there is general agreement on the various elements to be included. First, we have summarized some housing facts for the City, in comparison to a metro-wide average. Estimates of these numbers often vary, but these represent an average of the data sources. 1. The number of single family dwellings that are being rented long-term in the City has ranged from the high 50s to mid-60s over the past few years. This is from a single family housing stock of approximately 2,000 units – a percentage at 3% of single family homes, 7