2018-09-06 Hearing Transcript - Council Initiated Bill 108, Draft 4

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JACKSON: I'm not sure on long term. You mean more than CLARKSON: —Yeah, you know just a regular house that's being rented JACKSON: —180 days? CLARKSON: It was my understanding that there had to be somebody listed as the rental agent for that house. Why there wouldn't be at least that kind of a requirement although the reachable person, I guess, would be considered an agent. JACKSON: It could be, yeah. HALL: Yeah, there's usually like a landlord -tenant agreement so when you have a contract in place, then that would lay out who—you know who the landlord is and they're responsible for the dwelling basically so that's who you contact and then this kind of creates that as well. It's a reachable person that can actually be there, though. JACKSON: Let's see, so the owners are also required to notify the Planning Department of any changes to the contact info for the reachable person. All short-term vacation rentals must abide by a good -neighbor policy. This requires the owner or reachable person to make sure the activities taking place in the rental conform to the character of the surrounding neighborhood. The policy must be displayed on the premises and included in the rental agreement. The policy includes quiet hours from 9 p.m. to 8 a.m., ensuring that sounds outside of quiet hours do not exceed what is normal for a residential area, prohibiting machines or devices that generate loud noises, and ensuring that guests park on-site in designated parking areas. Other standards that all short-term vacation rentals must abide by include displaying on the back of a door a copy of the registration or nonconforming use certificate and the reachable person's name and phone number. They also need to include the registration number or nonconforming that should say "and" nonconforming use certificate number on all forms of advertising as well as comply with the Sign Code and parking requirements in the Zoning Code. So, complaints and enforcement. The bill requires the Planning Director to receive and track complaints regarding short-term vacation rentals, and to provide information about the rules, policies, and procedures to property owners, managers, neighbors, and the general public. The Director is also responsible for adopting rules of practice and procedure to implement the provisions of this bill. To enforce the provisions of the bill, the inspectors within the Planning Department will be able to rely on any advertising offering the property as a short-term vacation rental as evidence that the rental is operating on the property. The burden of proof will be on the owner to establish that the rental is being operated legally or the property is not being used as a short-term vacation rental. And, the bill—yes? CLARKSON: Let's go back to advertising. EXHIBIT C