City Council
MEETING DATE: 1/11/2017
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Short Term Vacation Rental (STVR) Task Force Recommendations
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FROM:
Charlie McClendon, City Manager
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
This item is presented for information, discussion and direction only.
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BACKGROUND:
In September of 2016 Council directed staff to appoint an ad-hoc task force to study issues related to short term vacation rentals in Cathedral City and to report back to Council with recommendations. Mayor Henry and Councilmember John Aguilar were assigned to work with the task force. The task force began meeting on October 19, 2016 and has been meeting twice a month since that time. The task force has now completed the majority of their work. This update report is being provided so the full Council has an opportunity to discuss the recommendations from the task force. The recommended ordinance amendments will then come forward for action on March 22, 2017.
DISCUSSION:
After initial orientation, introductions and discussions on what the task force members hoped to accomplish the group assigned some members to subcommittees to work on specific assignments. One group has been working on issues related to enforcement of codes and regulations and another has been working on materials that are or should be provided to STVR owners and tenants and/or posted in the rental units.
City departments have also implemented some changes already, which should improve enforcement and record keeping related to STVRs. Finance is now providing regular data updates to Police so the dispatch system will at all times include current information on where the STVR units are located. Likewise Police is providing a weekly data download to Code Enforcement so that the Code Enforcement data base now includes call data from any Police calls to STVR units whether the call resulted in enforcement action or not. An additional improvement will include transferring data from the Hotline to the Cod...
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