CC MEETING: December 6, 2022
DATE: November 22, 2022
TO: Erin Rinehart, City Manager
FROM: Cory Heiple, Environmental Services Director
Marc Guy, Assistant City Manager
Title
Consider An Ordinance Amending The Carrollton Code Of Ordinances Regarding Title IX, Chapter 97 - ‘Hotel Code’ To Regulate Short-Term Rentals.
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BACKGROUND:
This agenda item follows the worksessions held during the October 11, 2022, and November 1, 2022, City Council meetings which discussed the proposed adoption of amendments to Chapter 97 - ‘Hotel Code’ of the City’s Code of Ordinances. This amendment revises the Hotel Code by creating a registration, permitting, inspection and regulatory process for short-term rental and bed and breakfast properties.
The proposed amendments provide for the public health of short-term renters to ensure clean, livable conditions and provide an enforcement process to ensure the quiet, peaceful enjoyment of property by neighboring residents and property owners.
The goals of this provision are to:
• Define short-term rentals;
• Integrate a registration, inspection, and enforcement process similar to the current hotel and bed and breakfast ordinance to allow Code Enforcement staff to better respond to short-term rental-related complaints; and
• Provide clear procedural and administrative direction for violations, including an appeal procedure to allow due process for short-term rental business owners.
IMPACT ON COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY:
The regulation of short-term rental business operations located within single-family neighborhoods provides for the peaceful enjoyment of the community. Providing an equitable solution for operations that constitute a public health, safety, or nuisance concern reduces nuisances suffered by adjacent property owners and the public health risk for tenants of these properties.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION/ACTION DESIRED:
Staff recommends City Council adoption of the proposed ordinance to amend Title IX, Chapter 97 of the Carrollton Code of Ordinances for the regulation of short-term rental properties.