.PD Background & Recommendation Report (PL-CCI-2024-000003) Bill 121

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amended to state: "Transient accommodation" means the furnishing of a room, apartment, suite, single family dwelling, or the like to a transient for [less tha One ] thirty consecutive days or less. [ hotel, hatel, matelcendeminiti o ffi4s as defined in ehapter- 514B7 .] Reason: The Planning Department has been instrumental in implementing and regulating short-term vacation rentals, which are dwelling units of which the owner or operator does not reside on the building site, that has no more than five bedrooms for rent on the building site and is rented for thirty consecutive days or less. Therefore, the Planning Department has already established a set of operational standards and regulations in place for short-term vacation rentals that are in operation for thirty consecutive days or less. If there is going to be an amendment to the time period in which a TAR can be rented, then a new class of nonconforming use certificates will need to be taken into consideration for short-term rentals that operate between 31 and 179 days. Therefore, the Planning Director is recommending amending the rental period within the definition of "transient" and "transient accommodations" to match the existing rental period of thirty consecutive days that are found in the existing definition of "short-term vacation rentals" found in Chapter 25. Recommendation #2 Delete the term "second dwelling" in Section 25-4-16.1(a)(2) and Section 25-4- 16.2(b)(2) and replace the term with "additional dwelling unit" Reason: The term "second dwelling" is not defined within the body of the bill, so therefore the Director is proposing to remove the term "second dwelling" and to add "additional dwelling unit" as structures in which a transient accommodation rental shall not be permitted in. Recommendation #3 Under Section 25-4-16.1(b)(1), amend as follows: (1) If the transient accommodation on