The recent increase in short-term rentals in the city has had detrimental effects on the residential character of neighborhoods and the community's affordable housing stock, thereby creating an emergency. The city hereby temporarily prohibits the issuance of new conditional use permits for short-term rental dwellings and prohibits the acceptance, review, and processing by the city's authorized staff and Board of Architectural Review and Development of any applications for conditional use permits for short- term rental dwellings within the city limits pending further study, enactment, and effect of new or amended short-term rental ordinances. This emergency ordinance shall not prohibit the issuance of conditional use permits for short-term rental dwellings to persons who submitted applications for such permits prior to the effective date of this emergency ordinance. Furthermore, the City Manager, or the designee of the City Manager, may issue licenses to those who have already obtained a conditional use permit for short-term rental dwellings.
(Ord. O-30-22, passed 12-20-2022)