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Short-Term Rental Questionnaire

Questionnaire closes on August 1, 2025.

1.  

Please indicate which of the following best describes your relationship with short-term rentals.

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2.  

Have you experienced or do you practice good neighbor guidelines for short-term rentals? These guidelines can include communication of the following with renters:

Noise controls including quiet hours, volume information, and refraining from disorderly conduct.

Parking and traffic including designated parking locations and traffic safety information.

Property maintenance and trash disposal including information on property cleanliness, trash disposal, and maintenance contacts.

Pet restrictions, such as leash laws, clean up requirements and tools, and barking notice.

Occupancy limits for each rental unit.

Party policy.

Compliant contacts.

24/7 contacts.

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3.  

What issues have you experienced regarding short-term rentals?

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6.  

Indicate your comfort with a requirement for obtaining a City of Redmond business license along with your Washington state business license. For reference, the 2025 fee for a City of Redmond business license is $153.00.

The preliminary proposal includes a requirement for:

  • One City of Redmond business license per short term rental when located in the Neighborhood Residential zoning district.
  • One City of Redmond business license per operator within a multifamily development located in Redmond's centers and equivalent multifamily and mixed-use zoning district.
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7.  

Communication and transparency are important to the City. 

Communication could involve a 24/7 contact maintained on file for emergencies and for neighbor-to-neighbor contacts. Transparency could involve ensuring awareness of a short-term rental operation to adjacent neighbors.

Please indicate all of the following that you believe could work well for communication and transparency.

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A safety checklist is one way that owners and operators of short-term rentals can confirm to the City the provisions important for consumer safety.

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Please indicate your comfort with completing and providing a completed safety checklist to the City at the time of your submittal or renewal for your business license.
9.  

This question is for managers and tenants of multifamily and mixed-use developments. Please describe the management standards for short-term rentals at your location.  For example, are all short-term rentals managed through rental office, managed by individual tenants, or a hybrid of these.

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Your contact information will be saved to the City's business contacts database and will be used to communicate with you about City business such as Economic Development and the World's Game.
11.  

For demographics only, please indicate when you were born.