For purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, and are hereby defined as follows:
DWELLING UNIT: | One or more rooms, including individualized bathroom and kitchen facilities, which are arranged, designed, or used as living quarters for a household. |
GUEST: | A person who rents or occupies a short-term rental. |
HOST: | An owner or owners engaged in providing short term rentals. |
HOSTING PLATFORM: | A marketplace entity, in whatever form or format which facilitates short term rentals through advertising, matchmaking or other means, using any medium or facilitation, or from which the operator of the hosting platform derives revenue, including booking fees or advertising revenues from providing or maintaining the marketplace information. |
NON-OWNER-OCCUPIED SHORT-TERM RENTALS: | A short term rental property that is not owner-occupied and is rented using a hosting platform for any short-term rental period. |
OWNER: | A person holding title or co-title of an abode, dwelling unit or residence that they may lease as a short-term rental but only in accordance with the terms of this article. |
OWNER OCCUPIED SHORT-TERM RENTALS: | A short term rental property that is primarily owner-occupied, except for the duration when the property or a portion thereof as defined herein is rented using a hosting platform for any short-term rental period. |
SHORT-TERM RENTAL PERIOD: | A period of time of one hundred and eighty-two (182) or lesser calendar days. |
SHORT TERM RENTALS: | A residential dwelling unit, including a single-family home in its entirety or an individual room within a single-family home or an accessory structure of a single-family home, townhomes, condominiums and rooming house dwelling units or any residential dwelling unit included within a building containing two (2) or more residential units, a building containing three (3) or more residential units, or a multi-family building containing four (4) or more units that are rented out using a hosting platform for any short-term rental period. (Ord. 21-54, 11-1-2021; amd. Ord. 2022-55, 9-6-2022; Ord. 2022-76, 11-7-2022) |