City of Columbia, Missouri
Meeting Minutes
Planning and Zoning Commission
Conference Room 1C
Columbia City Hall
701 E. Broadway
Thursday, December 1, 2022
6:00 PM
Special Call Work Session
I. CALL TO ORDER
7 -
Present:
Sara Loe, Anthony Stanton, Valerie Carroll, Sharon Geuea Jones, Robbin Kimbell,
Peggy Placier and Shannon Wilson
2 - Tootie Burns and Michael MacMann
Excused:
II. INTRODUCTIONS
III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
Meeting agenda adopted unanimously
Move to approve
IV. OLD BUSINESS
A. Draft Regulations - Short-term Rental (continuation)
Mr. Zenner provided a brief overview of where the Commission left off at the end
of the November 30 work session and opened the discussion to begin with the
remaining outstanding provisions. There was discussion regarding changes to the
Permitted Use Table and a desire to move the headings for all types of STRs under
the general land use category of “Guest Accommodation”. It was staff’s concern
that all tiers of STR should appear in one location in the Permitted Use Table to
eliminate possible confusion. Staff also noted that to have Tier 1 shown under the
“accessory” use section of the Table was cumbersome. Consolidating all the Tiers
together under “Guest Accommodations” was viewed as more straight forward to a
future user of the Code.
The proposed change would not result in changes to where an STR would be
allowed within the various zoning districts; however, clarifications were made
within each zoning district if the use would be allowed as either an accessory,
conditional accessory, conditional, or permitted use. Mr. Zenner provided an
explanation of what each designation meant. After limited additional discussion
the Commission agreed to make the changes by a vote of (7-0).
As a result of the changes to the Permitted Use Tabled several minor adjustments
to the definitions of the Tiers were also required. The draft working draft of the
regulations were modified to ensure consistency with the Permitted Use Table.
The Commission approved the revision to working draft by a vote of (7-0).
The Commission move on to discuss tailored CUP criteria to be used when an STR
required such a review. Chair Geuea Jones noted that she had proposed several
criteria as a starting point. Mr. Zenner had those criteria displayed for the
Commission to review. There was general Commission discussion following which