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MEMORANDUM To:Saint Anthony Village Planning Commission From:Stephen Grittman, City Planner Date:June 17, 2025 GC Project No.140.00 - Gen Property Location:NA Request: City Code Amendments – Rental Housing BACKGROUND The City has been working toward policy and regulatory efforts related to a series of housing goals over the past few years. These goals include seeking methods to support affordable housing development and preservation of existing single-family housing, including the concept of “Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing” – NOAH, which relies on the availability of older housing stock, often at more affordable prices, allowing younger and/or more modest income families to attain single-family housing ownership in the community. Accompanying this report are two ordinance drafts. One builds standards for rental single-family housing as a land use. The second establishes additional licensing and process requirements for license applicants and ongoing operation of rental housing. The Planning Commission’s review will primarily focus on the first ordinance, with the second informal ordinance language provided for additional context. GENERAL INFORMATION Limitations on Single-Family Rentals The first ordinance illustrates proposed redlined changes to Chapters 152, 154 and 157. To help maintain single-family preservation, the City Council has directed research into options for limiting the loss of ownership housing. Three strategies have been identified as a part of this objective. These are the following: 1.Limit Corporate Ownership of Rental Units. This strategy is designed to ensure that large-scale corporate purchases of existing single family housing stock cannot happen in the Village. While this phenomenon has not been an issue to date, corporate ownership (and the conversion of owner-occupied single-family homes to rental units) has been seen in communities around the Twin Cities area. The attached ordinance amendment is designed to restrict “corporate” ownership to no more than 4 rental units per person or organization. The language is adapted from draft legislation that the State Legislature has considered over the past few years (although not enacted). Applications for rental license would include a declaration of financial interest in other Saint Anthony Village single-family housing. 2.Prohibit Short-Term Rental of Single-Family Housing. The City considered a variety of approaches to short-term rental regulation during previous worksessions (including adaptations