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, CITY OF RIVERSIDE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MEMORANDUM Honorable Mayor & Agency Members Date: Item No.: July 11, 2000 5 Subject: General Information Concerning Conditions and Restrictions on Cumulative Occupancy of Hotels and Motels Background At its meeting of June 6,2000, while discussing a relocation plan for a motel on University Avenue, the Redevelopment Agency noted that long-term occupancy of hotels and motels could have an impact on projects along the University Avenue Corridor or other Redevelopment areas. To investigate ways to alleviate this issue, the Agency directed staffto research ordinances in other cities that restrict the duration of occupancy for hotel and motel units. Staff followed up this request, contacting several cities in the State of California. Staff found that some cities created specific ordinances to limit hotel/motel occupancy, while others included conditional language in their definition of hotel/motel that specified transient occupancy. The following report gives examples of ordinances or definitions that other cities have used. For a more complete listing of staffs findings, please refer to Attachment A. Survey Results Buena Park: Limitation on Continuous and Cumulative Occupancy of Hotels, Motels, and Motor Hotels. It shall be unlawful for any hotel, motel, or motor hotel to rent or let, or otherwise provide, any room therein to any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other business entity for thirty (30) or more consecutive days, or for more than sixty (60) total days in anyone hundred and eighty (180) consecutive day period. .. (City of Buena Park Municipal Code Ordinance No. 1399, Text Amendment No. C 99-2). Greenfield: Transient Occupancy of a HotellMotel: Any person occupying space in a hotel or motel shall be deemed a transient until the period of thirty (30) days has expired. If occupancy in a hotel or motel continues after this 30 day period in a hotel or motel, the facility and individual shall be in violation of this ordinance and subject to the provisions dealing with enforcement, violations, and penalties. If length of stay is extended for any reason, transient occupancy tax will be paid for all days any unit is occupied. (City of Greenfield Municipal Code Section 17.51.030) Long Beach: 'Hotel' means a commercial land use for the rental of six (6) or more guest rooms or suites to primarily transient occupants for a period of not more than thirty (30) consecutive days (City of Long Beach Municipal Code Section 21.15.1380). San Gabriel: No occupancy or registration of any unit, or any portion thereof, other than the manager's quarters, by any person shall exceed twenty-one (21) calendar days in any consecutive ninety (90) calendar day period (City of San Gabriel Municipal Code Section 5-29.02). Analysis If the Agency Board is desirous of seeing changes made to the way in which transient occupancy for hotels and motels is defined and restricted, ordinance amendments to the City's Municipal Code would be required. The amendments would need to be initiated by the City Council. Adopting an ordinance similar to those listed above would provide the City with a way to ensure that hotels and motels remain transient lodging locations. Such an ordinance would help prevent code violations and substandard living conditions created when people u,se hotels and motels as permanent housing even though such buildings do not meet housing zoning codes. Staff notes that the information presented in this report is a sampling of ordinances adopted by other California cities. Staff is still researching the impact that adopting such an ordinance would have on the City, including the 5-1