File #: 19-0403    Version: 1
Type: Agenda Item Status: Approved
File created: 3/7/2019 In control: Board of Supervisors
On agenda: 3/19/2019 Final action: 3/19/2019
Title: Planning and Building and Chief Administrative Office recommending the Board: 1) Receive and file a report updating the Board on the implementation of the Vacation Home Rental (VHR) Ordinance; 2) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 030-2019 amending the Authorized Personnel Allocation Resolution 132-2018, as follows, in order to provide adequate staff for VHR public information, permitting, and enforcement: a) Add one Development Technician (1.0 FTE) position to the Planning and Building Department, Planning Services Division; b) Add one Assistant/Associate Planner (1.0 FTE) position to the Planning and Building Department, Long Range Planning Division; c) Provide authorization to the Director of Human Resources to make, if needed, any technical corrections to the authorized personnel allocations for the Planning and Building Department; and 3) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign the attached budget transfer form allocating $70,433 of the $315,000 set aside in Genera...
Attachments: 1. B - Budget Transfer, 2. A - VHR Update Staff Report, 3. C - Personnel Resolution, 4. D - Counsel Approval, 5. E - VHR 300 Foot Buffer Map, 6. F - VHR Location Heat Map, 7. G - VHR Road Segment Map, 8. H - VHR Overnight Guest Heat Map, 9. I - VHR Update Slides, 10. Executed Resolution 030-2019, 11. Executed Budget Transfer, 12. Public Comment Rcvd 3-15-19 BOS 3-19-19
Related files: 21-0168, 21-1262, 19-1521
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Planning and Building and Chief Administrative Office recommending the Board:
1) Receive and file a report updating the Board on the implementation of the Vacation Home Rental (VHR) Ordinance;
2) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 030-2019 amending the Authorized Personnel Allocation Resolution 132-2018, as follows, in order to provide adequate staff for VHR public information, permitting, and enforcement:
a) Add one Development Technician (1.0 FTE) position to the Planning and Building Department, Planning Services Division;
b) Add one Assistant/Associate Planner (1.0 FTE) position to the Planning and Building Department, Long Range Planning Division;
c) Provide authorization to the Director of Human Resources to make, if needed, any technical corrections to the authorized personnel allocations for the Planning and Building Department; and
3) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign the attached budget transfer form allocating $70,433 of the $315,000 set aside in General Fund-Other Operations for the implementation of the Vacation Home Rental Ordinance to the Planning and Building Department for Fiscal Year 2018-19 (4/5 vote required). (Est. Time: 45 Min.)
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND

Vacation Home Rental Ordinance Implementation Report

On September 11, 2018, the Board of Supervisors approved changes to Chapter 5.56 of the County Code of Ordinances, Vacation Home Rentals. As part of that action, the Board directed staff to return to the Board the following March with a report back to the Board on the implementation of the new Ordinance. Attached is a report detailing the progress.

Request for Additional Staff

With the transfer of responsibility for permitting and enforcement of the new VHR Ordinance to Planning and Building, one Permit Technician was added to the Code Enforcement division of the Planning and Building Department. Code Enforcement has been working to set up VHR complaint tracking and enforcement activities in the new TRAK...

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