| Location: | 1227 Poydras St, 1229 Poydras St, 1429 Poydras St, 1300 Perdido St, 13 |
| Description: | Zoning Docket 002/23
Applicant(s): City Council Motion No. M-22-485
Request: Amendment to the text of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance to update any and all relevant Articles governing the zoning and use standards for short-term rentals (both commercial and residential) in a manner that is both compliant with the holding of the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Hignell-Stark v. City of New Orleans, Case No. 21-30643, and continues to safeguard the City’s health, safety, and welfare. In the course of considering this text amendment, the City Planning Commission is directed to consider the Council’s desire to continue its efforts to prevent nuisances, promote affordable housing, and protect neighborhoods’ residential character, while removing any distinctions regarding the ability to operate an STR based on a property’s homestead exemption status.
The motion further instructs the consideration of:
• Additional/new prohibitions, including capping measures such as limiting the number of licenses held by a property owner, limiting the number of STRs an operator can operate, or creating restrictions based on block-face and/or neighborhood caps, spacing, or census tract;
• Adjusting oversight responsibilities currently applicable to owners and operators, including the possible shift to an on-site host requirement or allowance for an on-site operator in lieu of owner;
• Applicable regulations that may be available relative to the internet platforms that provide STR listings, including platform accountability;
• Changes to the existing STR categories and license types;
• Compliance standards;
• Requiring platforms to collect data;
• Enforcement mechanisms and penalties including the revocation of licenses and prevention of applicants’ ability to apply for new licenses due to historical quality of life violations;
• Mechanisms to leverage STRs to produce and/or maintain affordable housing units;
• Possible remedies to the illegal operation of STRs;
• Removal of all references to a homestead exemption requirement for STRs
• Whether or not all owners and/or operators be natural persons at least 18 years of age;
• Revisions to zoning standards, definitions, use permissions, and standards applicable to traditional bed and breakfasts for consistency with STRs;
• Revisions to definitions, us permissions, and standards, applicable to all transient lodging for consistency with applicable zoning interpretation memoranda of the Director of t |