CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Provide direction regarding potential short-term residential rental regulations.
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DEPARTMENT: Transportation, Engineering and Development
SUBMITTED BY: Allison Laff, AICP, Deputy Director
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
Not required.
BACKGROUND:
Under new business at the February 4, 2020 meeting, City Council directed staff to prepare a report with potential options that could be used to regulate short-term rentals. This request was driven by a party held at a residential Airbnb on Super Bowl Sunday 2020 (as further described below); however, a similar incident also occurred at a residential Airbnb on New Year's Eve 2018.
A Manager's Memorandum(MM) providing an overview of potential short-term residential rental regulations was issued on March 12, 2020. Following its issuance, the City was faced with closures due to Covid-19 and no further Council direction was given regarding the potential regulations discussed in the MM.
City Council again raised this issue under new business at the June 2, 2020 City Council meeting following two short-term residential rental incidents occurring at 843 Santa Maria (same location as above complaint) and 404 Verbena Court, both of which occurred in late May 2020. In both instances, a party was held at the short-term rental and complaints were received regarding the number of people in attendance (particularly given social distancing guidelines), noise, late hour, and altercations. The Naperville Police were called for both incidents.
It should be noted that the Police Department recently conducted an analysis on police calls regarding loud parties at Airbnb properties. Data indicates in the past two years (2018 and 2019), police responded to 2 calls of a loud party at Airbnb properties (note: this would not include the most recent events described above). In that same two-year period, police responded to 178 calls of a loud party at single family and multi-family re...
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