A. Permit Required: No person shall occupy, use, operate or manage, nor offer or negotiate to use, lease or rent a dwelling unit for short term rental occupancy within the City without obtaining a short term rental permit.
B. Compliance With Chapter: Permits for short term rentals are allowed subject to all provisions of this chapter.
C. Occupancy Tax: Compliance with the requirements of chapter 10, "Hotel-Motel Occupancy Tax", of this title is required.
D. Residential Zones: Within residential zones, short term rentals shall have a minimum two (2) nights stay and shall be limited to one per parcel.
E. Non-Owner Occupied Short Term Rentals: The sum total of all non-owner occupied short term rentals within the entirety of all residential zones shall not exceed thirty five (35) units, except as provided below:
1. Where the short term rental unit is included in a multi-unit development with the following standards:
a. Such development must include not less than ten (10) units.
b. Such development must include property that adjoins the waterfront.
c. Such development must be within one thousand five hundred feet (1,500') of the downtown core defined as being within the boundaries of First Avenue, Cedar Street, Fifth Avenue and Pine Street. Developments located farther than one thousand five hundred feet (1,500') from the downtown core that meet standards in subsections E1a and E1b of this section may only be allowed non-owner occupied short term rentals at a ratio of one per ten (10) units.
2. Where approved for greater short term rental density as part of an approved planned unit development. Existing approved planned unit developments must be formally amended to be eligible for this greater density.
3. Where the short term rental was approved prior to the effective date of this chapter. (Ord. 1353, 6-6-2018)