The Marin County Planning Commission on Monday unanimously shot down a proposed amendment that would have restricted some rentals in parts of West Marin, arguing that it was confusing and redundant—and not where the county should be putting its energies. Accessory living areas, which called for minimum 30-day stays in rooms with “wet bars.” In denying the amendment, which called for minimum 30-day stays in rooms the county is calling “accessory living areas”—as differentiated from second units—commissioners also requested that the Board of Supervisors quickly decide how it will regulate short-term rentals and junior accessory dwelling units. “I think the time has come,” Commissioner Katie Crecilus said during Monday’s hearing. “The county needs to make a decision on it.” Supervisors will discuss short-term rentals and junior accessory dwelling units in the fall, with code amendment proposals from county Planning Department staff likely following. Per the failed amendment, single-family homes in unincorporated Marin—but not the coastal zone—would have been allowed to rent up to three rooms with wet bars, which allow for appliances like hotplates and counter space but not full kitchens. Jeremy Tejirian, the county’s planning manager, said the amendment would have aligned rooms containing wet bars with existing restrictions on second units ahead of the state’s junior-accessory bill, which is currently passing through the assembly—though commissioners and members of the public who spoke at the meeting found the proposal to be new policy. “This report not only misrepresents the code you have currently, but it also represents state code,” said Rachel Guinness, the founding executive director of Lilypad Homes, which specializes in junior accessory units. “What you’re proposing to do here…is creating accessory units without calling them ‘units’ and not accounting for the increase in the designed occupancy of the home.” Commissioners deemed the amendment confusing and redundant, and asked staff to focus on developing short-term rental and junior accessory dwelling unit regulations, as supervisors had tasked them to do following a trio of workshops on affordable housing that wrapped up in February. “I think it’s important to move on with that,” Commissioner Don Dickenson said. “I see this [amendment] as just delaying the county getting to what we should be doing, which is creating an ordinance for junior second units.”