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I <br />Establish license application submittal requirements including rental unit manager contact <br />'information; evidence of a state license, local Business Tax Receipt, and local tourist tax <br />account; parking information; verification of state license fire protection items (smoke <br />alarms, emergency lighting, fire extinguisher); acknowledgement of various county <br />regulations on parking, noise, nuisances, environmental and safety regulations, and <br />fines/citations. <br />Establish special vacation rental regulations that include: <br />- Posting or displaying specific safety and "good neighbor" information in the rental <br />unit <br />- Parking regulations specific to vacation rentals (references regulations previously <br />adopted) <br />- Prohibiting, commercial events at residences (references regulations previously <br />adopted) <br />- Maintaining a sleeping occupancy limit for adults (18 years or older) in a rental unit: <br />2 per bedroom + 2 adults [Examples: maximum adult sleeping occupancy for 3 <br />bedroom home: 8 adults; for 6 bedroom home ... 14 adults maximum] <br />- Providing fire protection items required for a state vacation rental license <br />- Providing a carbon monoxide (CO) alarm <br />- Keeping manager contact information up to date <br />- Providing or otherwise stating the county vacation rental license number and sleeping <br />occupancy limit in any advertisement or rental offering associated with the vacation <br />rental unit <br />I <br />Considerable committee work involved setting a maximum sleeping occupancy limit. Although the <br />committee acknowledged that such a limit would not be routinely enforced and in fact would be <br />difficult to enforce, the committee felt that the limit would help prevent customers from over- <br />crowding if a reasonable limit was set and was provided on advertisements and rental offerings. The <br />committee also acknowledged that the special parking regulations already adopted by the Board help <br />prevent over -crowding day and night. In the end, the committee settled on a sleeping occupancy <br />limit for adults (18 years or older) in each rental of 2 per bedroom plus 2 adults. The committee felt <br />that the recommended occupancy limit will help prevent over -crowding and reasonably <br />accommodates families while appropriately curtailing the use of a rental as an over -crowded "party <br />house" by renters 18 years and up. As indicated above, the committee also recommends requiring <br />every vacation rental advertisement and rental offering to state the maximum occupancy limit for the <br />unit. In addition, the occupancy limit will be stated on the vacation rental license issued by the <br />county. <br />The recommended vacation rental ordinance is attached (see attachment 6). If the Board directs staff <br />to initiate the formal land development regulations amendment process, staff anticipates scheduling a <br />public hearing before the PZC in May and a BCC public hearing in June. <br />Recommended Fine Schedule for Violations <br />Fines & Citations Powers <br />Staff primarily enforces county codes by one of two means: by bringing cases to the Indian River <br />County Code Enforcement Board (CEB) for Board issuance of orders and fines, or by issuing <br />WAGENDA\Current Year\2016\Consideration of Recommendations from the STVRAC 041216 BCC.docx 4 <br />155 <br />