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MEMORANDUM To:Saint Anthony Village City Council From:Stephen Grittman, City Planner Date:September 23, 2025 Request: Rental Housing Ordinances – 1st Reading BACKGROUND The City Council considered a first reading of two ordinances related to regulation of the rental of single- family dwellings and licensing of all residential rentals in August. Following that discussion, the Council tabled action to take of the discussion at a work session, held on September 9, 2025. At the work session, the Council’s discussion coalesced around accommodating a tightly limited allowance for the continuation of certain short-term rental single-family homes. This memorandum forwards two ordinances related to rental housing. Ordinance 2025-05 The first ordinance, 2025-05 updates the draft ordinance related to caps on licenses and the short-term provisions noted above. The redlined portions are the new language changes from existing code, while the yellow highlights are those sections added since the original first reading. The language proposed in this ordinance retains the general prohibition of short-term rentals, but creates an exception that permits licensed rental houses, operating as short-term rental units, and located on property directly adjacent to the owner’s homestead property, to continue operating as a short-term rental unit, including the opportunity to renew licenses on the standard annual basis. The new language adds clauses that require termination of the short-term allowance when the owner no longer lives on the homestead property, sells the short-term property to other ownership, or converts the property to long-term rental. The language also requires full ongoing compliance with all Section 152 licensing requirements. The ordinance language does not refer to, or allow, existing short-term rentals that cannot meet these requirements. In that regard, those parcels must either convert to long term rental no later than at the time of renewal of their licenses, or if currently unlicensed, apply for a long term rental license and operate in compliance with those requirements. One other section was modified based on council discussion, relating to the potential exceptions to the overall single family rental cap. Council expressed concern over a lack of definition to the hardship clause. While there is going to be some subjectivity to this determination, the additional language is intended to create some boundaries around a request for a waiver from the cap. The exception would be in play only if a homeowner were unable to continue to occupy their homestead, but wished to retain ownership during an interim period of time, renting out the home during that temporary period, AND in the event that the maximum number of single-family home rentals had been reached in that neighborhood. 39