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MEETING OF THE MINTURN PLANNING COMMISSION
Minturn Town Center, 302 Pine Street
Minturn, CO 81645 • (970) 827-5645
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Regular Session — 6:30 pm
PLANNING COMMISSION:
Lynn Teach — Chair
Burke Harrington
Bobby Head
Greg Gastineau
Jeff Armistead
Planning Director — Janet Hawkinson
When addressing the Planning Commission, please state your name and your address for the record prior to
providing your comments. Please address the Planning Commission as a whole. All supporting documents are
available for public review in the Town Offices — located at 302 Pine Street, Minturn CO 81645 — during regular
business hours between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.
Regular Session — 6:30pm
1. Call to Order - L Teach called meeting to order at 6:40 pm
• Roll Call — all present — G. Gastineau excused absence
• Pledge of Allegiance
2. Approval of Agenda
• Items to be Pulled or Added - motion by J Armistead - 2"d B Harrington
3. Approval of Minutes: 1-11-2017 - L Teach handed written changes, most typing
and wording changes. — motion by B Harrington - 2nd J Armistead
4. Public comments on items, which are not on the agenda (5 minute time
limit per person) - no public comment
'Meeting adjourned at 6:50 pm and moved into work session.
VYfiXt STIbN
Information and researching on Vacation Rentals by Owners — Short term Rentals
submitted by the Planning Director — J. Hawkinson:
*Colorado Association of Ski Towns—Vacation Home Rentals— Issues, Emerging Trends and Best
Practices, Published June 2015.
*Town of Basalt - Town of Vail —Town of Avon
*National Concerns in Regards to Short-term Rentals:
• Loss of long term rentals
• Impacts on Workforce Housing — conversion into VHR's
• Neighborhood impact: changing the character
• Large cities — San Francisco, Denver, New York — getting aggressive
with managing VHR's - tax collection — specific zone areas only
• Impacts on small towns and Colorado ski towns — lack of housing,
changing character of town, impact on residents
Impacts of Short-term Rentals on the Town of Minturn
1) Regulating short term rentals — VHR's (vacation home rentals)
➢ Business License — require business license — have fee — to be
determined — must hang license in VHR — must show building inspection
for safety — must show required parking
➢ Permit — no permit
➢ Property Manager that lives in Eagle County — yes — must have local
property manager
➢ Lodging Tax - already collected at 1.5%
➢ Building Code - Safety Inspections (fire alarms, CO2 registers, other?) —
have inspection complete before receive business license
2) Zoning of short term rentals — VHR's
➢ Do they need to be in a commercial or mixed-use zone? no
➢ Does the property owner need to have owned the home for 2 or more
years before a short term rental business license can be issued? This
is a good idea, however does the town want to take on monitoring this
requirement — is it too restrictive? (protect brokers buying long term
housing for investment speculation)
➢ Restrict the number and location of VHR's in town — yes need to restrict
the number— is it by percentage 10-20% of homes allowed to be short
term rentals — first come basis
3) Managing short term rentals — Code Enforcement
➢ Displaces locals — turns neighborhoods into lodging districts — is there
an incentive to keep long term rentals?
➢ Neighborhood impacts: trash, too many occupants, parties, noise —give
tickets - document
➢ Parking — pay yearly fee if not enough parking for the amount of beds
advertised? Only allow rentals for amount of parking on site — allow one
space on street as part of the parking?
➢ Snow Removal — must provide local manager contact at time of
business license
➢ Dogs — too hard to regulate — up to the owner if they want to allow
➢ 3 Strikes Policy— good to have some regulation if VHR is not in
compliance and creating too much disturbance for neighbors and town.
4) Other
Accepted:
110
L n ch - Chair