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Palm Springs is about to make it more difficult for people to rent vacation units in the city.
The city council last week passed changes to its ordinance regarding vacation rental units, including limiting a location to no more than 32 rental contracts per year, according to a statement on the city’s website.
The changes, which are summarized in a 48-page staff report, also limit the number of vacation rental permits an individual or business can own, and it limits the number of people per rental unit to eight.
The new rules also call for implementation of a Vacation Rental Compliance Department, which would be paid for with permit fees, among other changes.
On Wednesday, the council is scheduled to give the revised ordinance the first of two reviews. The changes are expected to become law in late January, City Manager David H. Ready said Monday.
Palm Springs receives about 2,000 requests a year for vacation rental permits, about twice as many as it did five years ago, Ready said.
“We’ve become even more popular as a tourist destination during the past few years,” Ready said. “We need to put some limits on vacation rentals so we can strike a balance within the community. Not all of them cause problems, but some of them have become a nuisance.”
Most vacation rentals happen on weekends in single-family homes. That can lead to more noise, traffic and other disturbances in what are otherwise quiet neighborhoods made up of permanent residents, Ready said.
