Murrieta City Council held a workshop Tuesday, July 7, to discuss short-term rentals in Murrieta.Chris Tracy, Murrieta senior planner, gave the presentation at the meeting regarding an overview of short-term vacation rentals.It is the second workshop on the topic; the first workshop of short-term rentals was held Feb. 18. Comments were received by the public, and staff received general direction on a policy framework.Short-term vacation rentals are a “rental of a residence or portion of a residence, rented by paying guests for short periods of less than one month,” according to Tracy.There are two types of rentals: “whole-home,” rentals, which are also known as “non-hosted” rentals where the homeowner rents out the home but is off-site and “home-share” renta
