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• PZC Action At its regular meeting of May 26, 2016, and at a Special Call meeting on June 2, 2016, the PZC conducted a public hearing and considered the proposed ordinance (see attachment 8). As a result of its work, the PZC made additions to the proposed ordinance and those changes have been incorporated into the ordinance attached for the Board's consideration. The PZC voted to recommend that the Board adopt the proposed ordinance, adopt the proposed fines/citations schedule, and direct staff to prepare and present a "progress report" after the ordinance is in effect for one year. ANALYSIS • Current Conditions Currently, staff has no accurate data on the total number of vacation rental units (state licensed and unlicensed) offered for rent in Indian River County. Research conducted by the County Attorney's Office in 2015, however, indicates that there may be more than 375 vacation rental units county -wide offered for rent on the internet. Of those estimated 375 units, it appears that roughly 250 units lie within the unincorporated area of the county. During public meetings at which vacation rentals have been discussed, some participants have speculated that there may be hundreds of more units than staff's research indicates. Whether there are 250 units in the unincorporated county or hundreds more than that, a total of 32 units with some type of suspected vacation rental violation (such as no state license or various nuisances) over a 4 year period indicates that vacation rental unit problems are not widespread or numerous at this time although the pace of suspected violations has increased recently. Although problems may not be widespread, the STVRAC, staff, and the PZC believe that additional vacation rental regulations are warranted to reasonably address existing and potential problems and nuisances and to prevent a proliferation of problems from occurring in the future, especially if the local vacation rental market expands. Since adoption of the commercial events prohibition and special parking regulations for vacation rentals (actions 1 and 2 above), staff has received complaints about two residences where violations of the commercial event at residence prohibition appear to have occurred. One complaint, received in February 2016, was prompted by a concern about over -parking at an event. Code Enforcement investigated that apparent violation of the commercial event prohibition and issued a written warning together with a description of the commercial event at residence prohibition and a copy of the relevant regulation. Complaints have also been received about a May and a June wedding event at another residence,.at which parking, noise, and nuisance problems were cited. Code Enforcement is currently investigating those apparent violations and is preparing to present a case to the Code Enforcement Board at its June 27 meeting. Based on the reduced level of overall complaints about commercial events and over -parking, it appears that the commercial event prohibition and special parking regulations are having their desired effect and are being enforced. Consequently, there is no proposal or recommendation to change those regulations at this time, although specific and significant new fine amounts are proposed for violations of those existing regulations (see attachment 14). With respect to the vacation rental committee initiative (action 4 above), the committee has conducted and completed its work as described below, and is considered sun-setted. WAGENDA\Current Year\2016\Consideration of Proposed Vacation Rental Ordinance Establishing Local License Requirement and 3 Vacation Rental Regulations 062116.docx 125