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MEMORANDUM
DATE: July 12, 2022
TO: Mayor Arndt and City Council Members
THRU: Kelly DiMartino, Interim City Manager
Tyler Marr, Interim Deputy City Manager
Caryn M. Champine, PDT Director
Paul Sizemore, CDNS Director
FROM: Marcy Yoder, Neighborhood Services Manager
RE: Rental Housing Taskforce and Community Engagement
This memo is to inform Council of upcoming community engagement efforts happening
between July 15th and August 1st on the key concepts being considered by the Rental
Housing Taskforce.
Engagement efforts will seek input on a variety of key concepts being considered by the
rental housing taskforce. This will allow them to include community input into their final
recommendations.
Background:
The rental housing taskforce is comprised of a diverse mix of residents that have been
working together to explore more deeply the following three strategies from the Housing
Strategic Plan:
• Strategy 20 - Explore the option of a mandated rental license/registry program for
long-term rentals and pair with best practice rental regulations
• Strategy 21 - Explore revisions to occupancy limits and family definitions in order
to streamline processes and calibrate the policy to support stable, healthy, and
affordable housing citywide
• Strategy 26 - Develop small landlord incentives
This work seeks to address the Greatest Challenge that "housing policies have not
consistently addressed housing stability and healthy housing, especially for people who
rent."
The group has been meeting every 2 weeks since the end of March. The beginning
sessions included learning opportunities and review of best practice and research in the
three areas. Content has been shared in a variety of ways, including homework
readings, videos, presentations and on one occasion a panel discussion. The panel
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was a discussion of pros and cons related to U+2 so that the taskforce could hear first-
hand the different perspectives on this topic beyond the lived experience of the
taskforce members. The agendas, homework assignments, and presentation slides are
all posted of the website listed above.
The taskforce has begun to formulate key concepts for consideration While they
continue to work toward recommendations for Council consideration, staff will be
conducting additional community engagement on potential rental housing programming
and occupancy code revisions. The engagement information will be utilized by the
taskforce as they finalize their recommendations for Council consideration. It will also
be included in the Council packet prepared for the August 23 Council Work Session.
Next Steps:
• Engagement report will be shared in the Council Work Session packet for the
August 23rd meeting.
CC: Meaghan Overton, Housing Manager
Jackie Kozak-Thiel, Chief Sustainability Officer
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