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MEMORANDUM To:Saint Anthony Village City Council From:Stephen Grittman, City Planner Date:July 8, 2025 Request: Worksession Discussion – Rental Housing BACKGROUND The City has been investigating options for rental housing regulation. In May of this year, the City Council and Planning Commission convened in a worksession to address rental housing, including both short- and long-term regulations. In June, staff brought a series of proposed amendments based on that direction to the Planning Commission for consideration at a public hearing. The Commission made an extensive series of comments and recommendations on both short-term and long-term rental housing regulation. The subsequent table illustrates the proposed ordinance language with comments from the Planning Commission and additional context from staff. The proposed ordinance text addresses short-term rentals from the standpoint of prohibiting that use. The first 9 sections of the ordinance address this prohibition, making it more explicit (rather than relying on the implicit prohibition under current language) per previous discussion. The Planning Commission voted to table action on these portions of the ordinance, pending an opportunity to create language that expressly allows and regulates short-term rentals housing. Section 10 of the ordinance addresses limitations on long-term rental housing. The Commission recommended a series of modifications to the proposed language, and reached some consensus on the methods of their proposed approach. Accompanying the ordinance-form materials examined below, staff also presented draft informal draft language that would establish the administrative procedures for implementing the ordinance. This language is proposed to be added given the lack of several details in regulating and tracking rental housing in the current City Code. Finally, staff has also generated language for administrative enforcement of this and other City permitting processes, including fines and appeals processes. That language is not included with the materials for this worksession, but would be presented again for Council consideration when these ordinances are ready for formal consideration. In the following material, staff provides the proposed draft ordinance language, and the Planning Commission’s modifications in a side-by-side comparison. The intent is to develop a specific direction for Council policy, per the prior worksession, utilizing the draft ordinance as a baseline, and modifying that draft if the Council wishes to do so.