Staff PCBT 25 years and county attorney short-term rental memo

2:23:26Okay? Thank you. Mr. Miles? Just wanna remind you if you forgot, PCBT is celebrating 25 years in business this month. So they've been running buses now for 25 years, or the county's been running buses in PCPT for 25 years. So that's all I have. That's

2:23:43it.

2:23:43That's it. I mean it's almost four o'clock.

2:23:46Oh yeah.

2:23:47I'll give you plenty of time now.

2:23:48Right. Mr. Ghosting?

2:23:52I have nothing further and thank you for having me here today.

2:23:56Well, to say I I appreciate you being here today and appreciate your advice and uh you know, you're welcome to sit in any time as you have apology to. So Thank you. So that's great. Madam Clerk? Oh

2:24:12wait a minute. So Well Commissioner Oriana just reminded me of something. So our office did you a memo about the short term rental ordinance. And did we all of you provide a copy of that memo?

2:24:23Yes, I read it and it's a lot of legal

2:24:26Right. So the short version is that if you repeal your short term rental ordinance The only thing that you can continue to regulate would be licensing and registration type requirements. In other words, you would not be able to prohibit short-term rentals anywhere in the county if you repeal the ordinance. And the state statute basically grandfathers our existing ordinance and doesn't allow us to re-regulate short-term rentals again, except for things like licensing and and registration. So

2:24:57the risk of you repealing it is we can't really put in a new regulatory scheme in place unless it's limited to things like licensing and registration.

2:25:08Are there rules that we can put in place to be a licensed um The RBO or whatever.

2:25:15There are some health safety type rules you can put in, but you can't put in rules that regulate the duration of the stay, for example.

2:25:23What about nuisance like uh complaints of roundiness X amount?

2:25:28Well I think other nuisance we might be able to regulate through other provisions of our code that have nothing to do with Short-term rentals. The your short-term rental ordinance is really regulating the duration of stays for rent.

2:25:48But if you're going to be discussing this at a workshop, we can go into more details. I wasn't sure if you it sounded like earlier you were requesting a workshop, and if so, we can get into the weeds of this if you want to, but uh

2:26:02Uh Mr. Bile said it uh his practice and he can schedule himself.

2:26:06Okay.

2:26:06Yeah I'll say I'll talk to the commissioner at the break and I think what we would do is schedule a regular item for just for discussion. That way they can give us a motion direction at it if enough for important meeting. When we're ready to do it, both your office and and our office and planning site.

2:26:21Okay. But I I think staff's gonna probably have to give you some data on how extensive the short term rental problem is in Pasco, which we don't have. Right. We can give you the legal analysis but we don't have the facts about how big of an issue it is.

2:26:36And we can we we can get that information along with the amount of Yeah, church development tax we actually collect from short-term rentals that may or may not be permitted in Pasco.

2:26:46So it you know it's interesting that uh apparently we may be collecting money. from our short term rental. We are collecting money from something that we outlook. So I think we could easily be challenged in court.

2:27:04And there's very selective enforcement. So there's just a lot of issues. Because we have hundreds of them. Hundreds.

2:27:13Yeah. Thousands possible. Yeah, the issue they're the issues are not d they're somewhat related but not directly related in the sense that one's a taxation issue, one's a land use issue. And so I can't really blame the ones that are do operating illegally from a land use perspective for not wanting to violate the tax law because then they'd be violating two different laws. So it's probably helpful that they're at least complying with one of the laws.

2:27:37How you get to pick and choose which law you get to follow. So

2:27:40and I believe the tax collect I believe about my pay rate. I believe the tax collector does the enforcement of that tax, correct? So it's not our code enforcement department,

2:27:50which is and to a certain extent the actual websites do some compliance requirements on the tax piece.

2:27:56Okay. I d so we just need to talk about it.

2:28:01So it sounds like this will be a feature agenda item. Is that okay with you?

2:28:08We need it addressed for where you get more and more questions.

2:28:11July or August. Mr. Chairman Mariano, that's in DC. Correct. Correct. Okay.