Subject: An Answer for Short Term Rentals??
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:32:21 -0600
From: "KATZ, FRANK D"
To: "CALVERT, CHRIS","BUSHEE, PATTI J.","HELDMEYER, KAREN
R.","WURZBURGER, REBECCA D.","CHAVEZ, MIGUEL M","TRUJILLO, RONALD
S","ORTIZ, MATTHEW E.","DOMINGUEZ, CARMICHAEL A", "COSS, RON D."

As this weeks Council meeting attests, the solution for short
term rentals is elusive. Councilor Wurzburger has worked
incredibly hard to find a system that would work, but at each
turn, new problems crop up. In striving toward an answer, we must
answer two main questions:

1. Where do we draw the line between short term rentals that
should continue and those that should cease? 2. Where do we
draw the line between where new short term rentals should be
allowed and where they should not?

As we describe that line, we must stay constitutional (we can't
say only locals can rent short term, or only men or only
Hispanics or only Jews; and it may well be considered an
unconstitutional taking to say those renting before the 2002
ordinance amendment cannot continue for some period for
amortization). We must remain mindful of the administrative
burden that drawing that line will impose. And most important,
the line has to be objective. 

Fortunately, we have 2 months, not 40 minutes.

Frank