CC MEETING: December 2, 2025
DATE: November 20, 2025
TO: Erin Rinehart, City Manager
FROM: Cory Heiple, Environmental Services Director
Shannon Hicks, Assistant City Manager
Title
Consider An Ordinance Amending Title IX, Chapter 97. - Hotel, Short-Term Rental, and Bed & Breakfast Code Relating To Licensing and Regulations of Hotels, Short-Term Rentals, and Bed & Breakfasts And Establishing A Penalty.
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BACKGROUND:
This agenda item follows the worksession discussions held during the September 23, October 14, and October 28, 2025 City Council meetings which discussed proposed amendments of Chapter 97. - Hotel, Short-Term Rental, and Bed & Breakfast Code. City staff received Council direction to revise the Code of Ordinances that amends the registration, permitting, inspection, and regulatory process for short-term rental and bed and breakfast properties.
The proposed revisions 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 for neighboring property owners.
Key elements of the revised ordinance are to:
• Update operational restrictions to address resident concerns and public nuisance complaints;
• Provide a notification process to residents and homeowners associations from short-term rental operators to identify and provide contact information;
• Implement a prospective prohibition on new short-term rental operations.
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 adoption of the proposed ordinance to Title IX, Chapter 97 of the Carrollton Code of Ordinances for the regulation of short-term rental and bed and breakfast properties.