Sep 20 2015
Staff Proposed Options for Regulating or Prohibiting Short term Rentals Piedmont
City staff prepared options for prohibiting or regulating AirBnB rentals for consideration by the City Council on Monday, September 21.
- Prohibit short-term rental of the 18 Second Units developed as low income housing. Staff strongly encourages the Council to adopt this provision, pointing out that the imposed rent restrictions would limit the AirBnB rate to $25 (very low income units) to $35 (low income units) per night for the units, before AirBnB takes its cut.
- Prohibit short-term rental of the 110 approved Second Units, which are not rent restricted. Staff notes that few are rented. Instead they are used as guest quarters or a home office.
- Prohibit short-term rental of the 66 apartments in Piedmont.
- No regulation of Home Swaps.
- Prohibit or regulate with standards short-term rental of rooms in a house. If allowed, the number of allowed rental days per year could be limited.
- Allow vacation rentals of whole houses with restrictions, perhaps limiting the number of allowed rental days per year.
Read the staff report here.
I support the Planning Department’s recommendations. The second unit and apartment rules Sacramento is imposing on us were intended to create housing for people who live here. Allowing them to go into AirBnB would make a mockery of that law and its goals.