Please email all council members today and tell them to oppose the current language of the draft ordinance being voted on Thursday regarding Type 2 STR licenses for the following reasons. The new changes are supposed to temporarily suspend only new Type 2 STR licenses for 1 year, but this appears to go beyond that. 1) The draft language removes Type 2 short term rentals as an allowed use in residential zoning and a temporary suspension does not require this change. If the use is not an allowed use in the zoning, then existing Type 2 STRs may not be able to renew their licenses. 2) There is no sunset provision for the suspension of new licenses, meaning this is not a temporary suspension and instead a permanent ban. The city council often includes in ordinances that they will come back within a certain time period to reconsider a part of an ordinance and that often never happens. The only way to make sure that this is a temporary suspension and not a permanent ban is to sunset the suspension and require the city council to revote to keep the suspension in place after the year has ended. Here's the information on what's being voted on regarding Type 2 STR licenses: http://austin.siretechnologies.com/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=951&doctype=agenda&itemid=51601 Here are their email addresses: steve.adler@austintexas.gov ora.houston@austintexas.gov delia.garza@austintexas.gov sabino.renteria@austintexas.gov gregorio.casar@austintexas.gov ann.kitchen@austintexas.gov don.zimmerman@austintexas.gov leslie.pool@austintexas.gov ellen.troxclair@austintexas.gov kathie.tovo@austintexas.gov sheri.gallo@austintexas.gov