The following words and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meaning ascribed to them by this section:
(a) "Accessory Building" means a building not substantially attached to, on the same lot with, and of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to, the principal structure; this includes, but is not limited to detached garages, barns, workshops, sheds, or other outbuildings.
(b) "Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU)" means a building not substantially attached to, but on the same lot with, a primary residence. An ADU must be serviced by public utilities that customarily sustain a residence; and provide for living, sleeping, cooking, and bathroom facilities. An ADU is an ancillary housing unit to the primary residence.
(c) "Booking Service" means any mechanism for a reservation and/or payment service provided by a hosting platform that facilitates a short-term rental transaction between a short-term rental host and a prospective short-term rental guest, and for which the hosting platform collects or receives, directly or indirectly through an agent or intermediary, a fee in connection with the reservation and/or payment services provided for the short-term rental transaction.
(d) "Calls for Service Ratio" means the number of calls for service divided by the number of sleeping rooms in service at the short-term rental.
(e) "Calls for Service" means any and all calls, including but not limited to those to law enforcement and/or the fire department, when those calls:
(1) Result in a representative being dispatched or directed to the short-tenn rental;
(2) Allege evidence of criminal activity;
(3) Result in an arrest, charge or citation; or
(4) Find an imminent threat to the health, safety or welfare of person(s) or property.
(f) "Director" means the director of the Village of Granville Planning Department, or his or her authorized designee.
(g) "Dwelling" means any building, structure, or unit, on the same tax parcel, or sharing the same mailing address, which is occupied or intended for occupancy in whole or in part as a home, residence or sleeping place for one (1) or more persons.
(h) "Employee" means any person who earns qualifying wages, commissions or other type of compensation from the owner or operator of a short-term rental property in connection with its operation or maintenance.
(i) "Guestroom" means a room offered to the public for a fee that contains, at a minimum, provisions for sleeping and access to a full bath.
(j) "Hosting Platform" means a person or entity that participates in the short-term rental business by providing and collecting or receiving a fee for booking services through which a short-term rental host may offer a short-term rental to a short-term rental guest. Hosting platforms usually, though not necessarily, provide booking services through an online platform that allows a short-term rental host to advertise the short-term rental through a website provided by the hosting platform and the hosting platform conducts a transaction by which potential short-term rental guest reserves a guestroom(s) and arranges or makes payment, whether the short-term rental guest pays rent directly to the short-term rental host or to the hosting platform.
(k) "Interception device" as used in this chapter refers to the definition found in Chapter 2933.51(D) of the Ohio Revised Code.
(l) "Manager" means the general manager, shift manager, or any person in any supervisory position regarding the operation of a short-term rental property.
(m) "Operator" means any natural person who operates a short-term rental in a capacity to facilitate the offering of guestrooms to guests.
(n) "Owner" means a corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization and any other group acting as a unit, or a person who has legal title to any structure or premises with or without accompanying actual possession thereof, and shall include the duly authorized agent or attorney, a purchaser, devisee, fiduciary and any person having a vested or contingent interest in the premises.
(o) "Permanent Occupant" means a person who resides in a dwelling more than fifty-one percent (51%) of the time during a calendar year, and the dwelling in which a person so resides shall be referred to as their primary residence.
(p) "Primary Residence" means a dwelling which is the usual place of return for housing as documented by at least two (2) of the following: motor vehicle registration, driver's license, tax documents, lease copy or a utility bill. An owner or permanent occupant can only have one primary residence.
(q) "Property Manager" means the owner or owner's agent of a short-term rental in the Village Business District who offers the short-term rental for temporary lodging, for a fee, for less than thirty (30) consecutive days and manages its operation.
(r) "Short-Term Rental Guest" means a person renting temporary lodging from a short-term rental host, or through a hosting platform on behalf of the short-term rental host, for a fee, for less than thirty (30) consecutive days.
(s) "Short-Term Rental Host" means the owner, operator, or permanent occupant of a short-term rental who offers the short-term rental for temporary lodging, for a fee, for less than thirty (30) consecutive days and manages its operation.
(t) "Short-Term Rental Operation" means the occupancy of any room or dwelling of any short-term rental.
(u) "Short-Term Rental" means any dwelling or guestroom that is rented in whole or in part for less than thirty (30) consecutive days for temporary lodging of persons other than the permanent occupant or owner, from which the permanent occupant or owner receives monetary compensation. A traditional bed and breakfast, which is permitted and regulated as a Home Occupation under Chapter 1181 of the Planning and Zoning Code, is not a short-term rental for purposes of this chapter. A boarding house or lodging house, a rooming house, and a hotel, motel or apartment hotel, all of which are separately defined in Section 1135.01, are not short-term rentals for purposes of this chapter. Accessory dwelling units in use prior to January 1, 1978 are considered existing non-conforming uses and are not subject to the provisions of this chapter.
All terminology used in this chapter and not specifically defined above, shall retain its meaning in conformance with the latest volume of Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
(Ord. 01-2022. Passed 2-2-22.)