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MINUTES – Eugene City Council Work Session September 23, 2019 Page 3 of the neighborhood and the destruction of housing availability; said that having a lot of people coming and going changes the character of the neighborhood and affects parking; said she knows there’s two sides and has heard from people who say short-term rentals are ruining neighborhoods and others say that they need to rent short-term in order to pay their mortgage. •Councilor Zelenka – said he brought up this issue a few years ago but council wasn’t interestedin discussing at that point; talked about how many of the rentals are around the university; saidhe’s concerned about the impact on the neighborhoods and livability; said he has a problemwith people buying homes to exclusively rent them out short-term all year long; sharedconcerns that they are turning neighborhoods into a business area; said he doesn’t have aproblem with people occasionally renting their homes short-term, but not all year long; askedhow many days per year other jurisdictions have limited short-term rentals to; asked aboutowner-occupancy requirements without a conditional use permit; asked about the TransientRoom Tax and what percentage of short-term rentals are reporting and paying that fee rightnow. •Councilor Pryor – said that this information has been helpful and he’d like to be deliberate onimplementing regulations; asked about the challenges of imposing inspection requirements;said he wouldn’t want to require inspections for this kind of housing if the City doesn’t requireit for other kinds of housing because it seems like overreaching; said he would discourageincluding number six on the motion related to inspections and instead require a guest registry •Councilor Clark – said that guests staying at a short-term rental will report on the condition of aplace and people wouldn’t stay somewhere with bad reviews; asked how many of the short-term rentals are owned by Expedia, Priceline, or Trip Advisor in Eugene; said it was interestingthat the people dealing with where people travel are also owning companies that deal with howhouses are bought and sold; shared concerns about the ability to have large companies complywith local regulations; commented that if more ADUs start to be built, the ADU rental incomecannot be used towards income to qualify for buying the house but you can use both incomesfrom the house and ADU if you’re buying it for an investment property; said he thinks that willhappen to houses around the university. •Councilor Syrett – said her main interest is to mitigate the negative impacts of short-termrentals on neighborhoods and without regulations, including licensing, there’s no effective wayto do that; talked about the logic of applying similar standards as hotels and motels and asked ifthe City requires them to provide guest registries and parking requirements, noting that not allrequirements would be the same; said she’s not interested in inspections because of theworkload and expense; said she supports parking requirements, limiting the number of people,and limiting the number of days the unit can be rented; said she thinks people would complainif standards weren’t being met; said she wanted to be deliberate about implementingregulations and is supportive of adopting some. •Mayor Vinis – asked staff to explain the suggestions made and why certain requirements werenot included; commented that there’s some sense of urgency about short-term rentals in thecommunity and it might make sense for council to adopt some regulations that are able to bequickly and effectively rolled out, understanding that this is an iterative process and regulationscan be added or amended later. •Councilor Semple – asked about the basis for license ramifications related to complaints; askedabout the expense of inspections and complaint response; shared concerns that if the number ofdays a short-term rental could be rented each year, it may leave some houses empty for the restof the year. •Councilor Zelenka – asked how HB 2001’s ADU owner-occupancy and parking regulationsrelated to short-term rental regulations; talked about inspections when new houses are built,noting that new short-term rentals could be inspected and the fees would get paid for by theowner; asked a process question about the way the motion is structured, skipping straight to apublic hearing before City Council reviews a proposed ordinance; said he had a problem with October 28, 2019, Meeting - Item 2A