CC WS PACKET 09232025 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

September 9, 2025 St. Anthony Council Work Session - 4 Mayor Webster stated that whether you own or rent a home, a residence is provided for 365 days. This allows an option. She is in favor of moving forward with the ordinance, but is also comfortable if we had timelines for ending them and allowing more time for properties that have a rental license. She is concerned with the properties that did not obtain a rental license. She is not in favor of a grace period for those properties. Councilmember Elnagdy stated she does not have any strong feelings against us doing as we did with the tobacco licenses. We do not need to have short-term licenses going forward. She would like to know how many properties are operating on a short-term basis and are licensed. We need to figure out the exact number and how they are being utilized. Then carve out an exception if Council sees a need for one. More discussion about the licensed rental properties that operate on a short-term basis. If you apply for a rental license, it does not make a distinction between short and long-term rentals. Mr. Yunker stated there is an annual licensing process. Enforcement can start at the next cycle. The City will know through that process who is renting short-term vs. long-term. Councilmember Doolan stated that if we do allow specific ones to continue, what happens when we hit the cap for long-term rentals? Mr. Lindgren stated the safest thing would be to have a cap and have exceptions during the grace period. Councilmember Elnagdy noted that currently, a license does not pass to a new property owner. Mr. Yunker stated that the ordinance, with the cap in place, would allow staff to start to educate those who are operating without a license. Mayor Webster asked the Councilmembers about whether to have a different grace period for licensed rentals operating short-term rentals. Councilmember Randle stated he believes that if they are doing things the right way with licenses, he has difficulty prohibiting it. Councilmember Jenson stated he is in favor of passing the ordinance, including some verbiage about the grace period. Mr. Yunker stated that it does not need to be in the ordinance, but would be staff direction. Councilmember Elnagdy stated she would be in favor of a carve-out for current licenses operating on a short-term basis. She wants to see some license holders who are doing as the City wants, to be grandfathered in. Only Councilmembers Elnagdy and Doolan were in favor of a carve-out. Councilmember Randle stated he would be interested in a carve-out. Mayor Webster asked about the impact on neighbors of the transient use of a property. Councilmember Elnagdy stated she would be in favor of that. Councilmember Jenson stated he wants to get people to buy or rent long-term homes. Mr. Lindgren reviewed Mayor Webster’s suggestion, and everyone who was licensed now could continue through the end of their license period, but if that licensed property was adjacent to the primary residence of the owner, it could continue indefinitely on an annual licensure basis. Mr. Lindgren stated that two classes should not be developed. Mr. Lindgren stated that it would be defensible. Mayor Webster stated that if there was a grandfather clause for a current property, what would happen if someone wanted to buy the property next door and do this? Mr. Lindgren stated that none of these should have happened, and there needs to be a fair way to solve the situation. Councilmember Elnagdy stated she is in favor of a carve-out. The license application would be modified to include short-term or long-term rentals. Mr. Yunker stated that after a license is granted, the Staff does not know the terms of the rentals. Councilmember Jenson asked if the three who came into the Council meetings were licensed. Mr. Grittman stated that the only ones who would qualify for a carve-out are the property owners who live adjacent to the rental property. Mayor Webster cited a possible situation where an unlicensed property owner could be