The status quo is just fine for Winona’s 30-percent rental rule, a City-Council-appointed task force has concluded.

The task force ended months of deliberations this week with a list of recommendations to the city and Winona State University to improve neighborhoods near campus.

Absent from the list are any recommendations to reform the 30-percent rental rule, which came under fire earlier this year and spurred the City Council to create the task force. When the council formed the task force in March, it urged the group to examine potential exceptions to the rental rule.

But the group ultimately voted to recommend the city keep the rental rule intact, though some members advocated reforming or even scrapping it. For homeowners who want relief from the rental rule, the task force suggests they follow an existing channel: seek a variance from the city’s Board of Adjustment, City Planner Mark Moeller said.

For more, see Saturday's Daily News.

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