2 Years After Last Action, Short Term Rental Ordinance Hearing Scheduled For July 29
Written by 991KBU on June 18, 2020
An ordinance to restrict short term rentals … B and Bs … will finally emerge for the public to comment … and the Planning Commission to tinker with … on July 29th.
Commissioners … and many people in Malibu … have been totally frustrated by delays in gettign that ordinance through City Hall.
It was nearly two years ago that the Malibu City Council approved the framework for a major crackdown on overnight rentals like B and B.
The city council on July 9th 2018 told city staff to come up with an ordinance that would severely crack down on overnight rentals.
City staff has delayed and delayed the ordinance … first the Woolsey Fire … then the pandemic.
Two years ago … the city council made a tentative blueprint.
For example … they decided that the owner or main tenant of a dwelling would have to be on premises for the unit to be rented out.
But other major issues, such as whether vacation unit rentals would be permitted in multi-unit structures, were sent back to the city staff for additional work.
Council members wanted to see more research on whether to allow mutilfamily units near the Malibu Pier and hotels or restaurants make sense.
But the council wanted apartments or condos elsewhere in the city to be kept as housing stock.
That meeting went until after midnight the next morning.
Most Malibu residents who spoke favor restricting short term rentals …. and complain that party houses and de facto motels on residential streets are ruinong their lives.
But other homeowners have said that renting out guest cottages or spare rooms is the only way they can afford to stay in Malibu.
Last night … the city announced that the Planning Commission will convene in a special meeting July 29th to handle the proposed B and B ordinance.
Just what exactly that ordinance will say … we have yet to see.
The Planning Director says she will release it for the public to review …. soon.
