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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes <br />June 17, 2025 <br />Page 7 <br />1 <br />Applications for a rental license would include a declaration of financial interest in <br />2 <br />other St. Anthony Village single-family housing. <br />3 <br />4 <br />2. Prohibit Single -Family Housing. The City considered a variety of approaches to short- <br />5 <br />term rental regulation during previous work sessions (including adaptations of <br />6 <br />neighboring community regulations). The Council directed staff to prohibit this aspect <br />7 <br />of transient rentals. Under current ordinance definitions, short-term rentals are not <br />8 <br />residential dwelling units, and therefore, are not allowed in any residential zoning <br />9 <br />district. Several such rentals have been discovered, including several that have raised a <br />10 <br />variety of neighborhood compatibility and maintenance concerns. The amendment <br />11 <br />related to short-term rentals is aimed at defining the use and explicitly prohibiting <br />12 <br />them in residential districts. Short-term rental is essentially a "hotel" use that would <br />13 <br />otherwise be eligible only for commercial zoning districts. <br />14 <br />15 <br />3. Long Term Rentals. As a measure to ward off potential issues, the third strategy <br />16 <br />establishes a cap on the amount of single-family rental housing in the community. The <br />17 <br />existing licensed single-family rental percentage in St. Anthony is around 4% and <br />18 <br />appears to have remained relatively stable over the past several years. Staff found that <br />19 <br />other communities in the area have adopted rental caps, usually in the range of the <br />20 <br />percentage of total single-family housing. The ordinance incorporates that threshold <br />21 <br />city-wide and breaks the City into four subareas (north of 371h, 33rd to 37th, 29th to 33rd, <br />22 <br />and south of 29th). This would ensure that no one neighborhood would be subject to an <br />23 <br />oversupply of rental housing beyond that available in other areas. <br />24 <br />25 <br />4. An additional sign amendment for rental property is included in Chapter 157. This <br />26 <br />addition is intended to accommodate the notice of rental or for -sale real estate signs, <br />27 <br />which are common but otherwise prohibited by sign regulations. <br />28 <br />29 Mr. Grittman explained that the second ordinance updates Chapter 152 related to Rental Housing. <br />30 Various amendments are proposed to clarify licensing application and processing policies, as well as <br />31 ongoing enforcement and operation practices. Also included are specifics related to those exempt <br />32 from the licensing requirements, and a revocation process for rental property owners who fail to <br />33 reapply for licensing under the existing process. <br />34 <br />35 The various Sections of 152 are included with redlined additions/changes. This is presented as an <br />36 informal text document (rather than an Ordinance form) to assist in review. An ordinance form of the <br />37 recommended text will be prepared for Council consideration to accompany this text format. There <br />38 are several definitions that are proposed that are drawn from the Building Code and Property <br />39 Maintenance Code — these have not been detailed in this draft, as they are taken from other adopted <br />40 sources. <br />41 <br />42 Mr. Grittman concluded and provided the Staff s recommendation. Staff has prepared two ordinance <br />43 sets for Planning Commission consideration. The first presents regulations related to corporate <br />44 ownership of single-family rental housing, prohibition on short-term rentals, and a cap on the total <br />45 number of single-family rentals in the community. <br />46 <br />