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Ordinance Amending Title 20 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code to allow and regulate Short-Term Vacation Rental Uses Citywide.
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WHEREAS, in July 2010, the City Council for the City of South San Francisco adopted a comprehensive update to the City's zoning ordinance, which repealed the then-existing Title 20 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code ("Zoning Ordinance"), and replaced it with an entirely new Title 20 that, among other actions, established new zoning districts, revised and reformatted many then-existing zoning provisions, eliminated inconsistent and outdated provisions, and codified entirely new zoning provisions, including new land use regulations and development standards; and,
WHEREAS, short-term vacation rental uses have grown in popularity with the rise of the sharing economy; and,
WHEREAS, the City of South San Francisco ("City") has identified the need to specifically design and regulate short-term vacation rental uses in order to minimize impacts to neighborhoods and preserve neighborhood character, while balancing the desire to accommodate this new use; and,
WHEREAS, staff recommends defining a short-term vacation rental as a lodging use consistent with the definitions contained in the Transient Occupancy Tax and Conference Center Tax Ordinance in Chapter 4.20 of the Municipal Code; and,
WHEREAS, City staff prepared the attached Zoning Code Text Amendment ("Zoning Amendment") to include a definition of short-term vacation rentals as a new lodging sub-classification and establish specific performance standards for these uses; and,
WHEREAS, the Zoning Ordinance was adopted in 2010 after preparation, circulation, consideration, and adoption of an Initial Study/Negative Declaration ("IS/ND") in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act, Public Resources Code Sections 21000, et seq. ("CEQA"), which IS/ND analyzed the environmental impacts of adopting the Zoning Ordinance and concluded that adoption o...
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