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Vail Local Housing Authority Results Tuesday, May 23, 2017 Community Development Large Conference Room 75 South Frontage Road West, Vail, Colorado 81657
MEMBERS PRESENT MEMBERS ABSENT Steve Lindstrom Francisco Meza
Mary McDougall James Wilkins
Molly Murphy Staff: Lynne Campbell
George Ruther
Kelli McDonald Kathleen Halloran Johannah Richards
A quorum being present Steve Lindstrom called the meeting to order at 3:15 PM.
1. Approval of Meeting Results May 9, 2017 Meeting results from May 9, 2017 were reviewed and approved by the board. Motion: Murphy Second: McDougall Vote: 3-0-2 (Meza, Wilkins absent)
2. Vacation Rental By Owner (VRBO) Discussion Kathleen Halloran, Kelli McDonald and Johannah Richards reviewed the Rental by Owner (RBO) study presented to the Vail Town Council on May 2, 2017 and explained the Town’s short term rental policy. Owners may rent for 14 days or less annually and are not required
to have a license and are expected to pay the Town’s lodging tax.
Johannah explained how the research company, DestiMetrics, researched the rental by owner data. Parcels vs. beds were counted for the number of units rented. The RBO team presented to Council concerns about life safety, noise, parking, etc.
The Board questioned how long it has been since other municipalities dealt with this issue – 2 years. George stated zoning hasn’t changed in 20 plus years. Vail and Aspen had nothing in
zoning for rentals less than 30 days. The Board and team compared zoning criteria.
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Steve asked what did team gather from the results and further direction needed:
• Public input opportunities for discussion on short term rentals will be held June 20 and July 11 prior to the Council discussion on August 1st
• Get more detail from firm’s study
• Council is willing to create more regulations
• Long term rentals get license, not penalized or verified
• Tools for enforcement
o Scanning websites
• Life Safety compliance, self check options
• New regulations would pay for new software, tools and additional revenue generate
Seasonal rentals don’t qualify under current rules; those rentals are greater than 30 days. Goal is to capture rentals less than 30 days. Eagle County is considering changing current tax rates from residential to commercial if property found to be doing short term rentals. Council feedback is to restrict short term rentals to avoid other negative fall out.
Lindstrom mentioned using the database of property and rental with follow up to check for patterns. That information would be helpful to the Board. Kathleen asked for feedback from the Board, everyone is trying to avoid unintended consequences.
Lindstrom asked if there is data available to show units converting from long term to short term rentals. Kathleen stated moving forward the Town will have that kind of information. Steve wants to be sure the Board is kept informed of this subject and any further meetings and wants the Board to be present at Council meetings. 3. Vail INDEED Application Review
There were no Vail INDEED Applications for review . 4. Vail INDEED FAQs Next the Board discussed Vail INDEED FAQs. It was determined the Board wants to enlist the help of a marketing person/firm to help
develop the Vail INDEED website, program and materials. The Town needs to sell this new
program. Staff will write a Request for Proposal for the Board to review and post to the Town’s website. The meeting was adjourned at 5:00PM. MOTION: Murphy SECOND: McDougall VOTE: 3-0-2 (Meza, Wilkins absent) Next Meeting – June 13, 2017