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Report regarding a Zoning Text Amendment to establish regulations related to short-term vacation rental uses, in accordance with Title 20 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code (Tony Rozzi, Principal Planner).
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
Staff recommends that the City Council follow the recommendations of the Planning Commission and introduce an Ordinance amending the Zoning Code to establish regulations related to short-term vacation rental uses.
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BACKGROUND
Overview
Short-term vacation rentals allow hosts to make a spare room or an entire dwelling unit available to potential renters. These transactions are usually made through residential hosting platform websites such as AirBnB, VRBO, Homeaway, or others, generally for 30 days or less.
This type of lodging has gained popularity in recent years, providing more transient lodging options for travelers, as opposed to traditional hotels and bed-and-breakfasts. Staff research has identified that the City has 47 units listed on short term vacation rental platforms - 12 are the entire units and 39 are private or shared rooms. Overall, the County of San Mateo has approximately 330 short term rental units available (April, 2019). Many travelers use short-term vacation rentals while on business trips, for vacation, or while their home is under construction. This increase in popularity has occurred along with the rise of the "sharing economy" in which people rent cars, homes, beds, or other goods directly from other individuals, generally through internet hosting sites.
Short-term vacation rentals include both hosted rentals, in which the resident, or host, is present and rents out a bedroom or a portion of the dwelling unit; and non-hosted rentals, where the renters occupy the full dwelling unit and the resident does not remain on-site. Short-term vacation rentals can also include properties that are not traditional homes. For example, AirBnB.com includes listings for houseboats and recrea...
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