Planning staff and police set up short-term rental list to improve enforcement coordination

Planning staff said the department has supplied the police department and dispatch with an active list of short-term rental permits, including contact information for property managers and owners. Staff said the list is intended to make enforcement and verification of complaints quicker and to help officers identify whether an address is a permitted rental.

"We have issued them a version of our short term rental list...it has a list of every single short term rental permit, whether it's residential or commercial. It has the contact information in there as well, the local property manager and who the property owner is," staff said. Board members discussed whether addresses could be flagged in the dispatch/CAD system so calls at those properties automatically notify planning staff.

Members welcomed tighter coordination but said staff should avoid flagging trivial calls; several board members said they want legitimate nuisance or documented repeated calls routed to planning and tracked in permit files.