Short-term rental units are banned in Long Beach, but that hasn’t stopped homeowners from listing extra rooms, backhouses or their entire homes on popular websites like Airbnb.

Officials, who estimate there are 1,300 active short-term rentals in the city, are now trying to draft an ordinance to regulate them. But, they still need community input at the second of three community workshops on Saturday.

“We’re still listening to the community as to what they want and what they want to see,” said Lisa Fall, administrative and financial services bureau manager.

Officials have before acknowledged they are unable to enforce the ban because of a lack of resources, so City Council last year asked staff to work on an ordinance. The Development Services Department is holding workshops this year to develop the ordinance they will eventually recommend to the council.

Organizers plan to report what they learned from the first workshop held in May, and what they have learned through surveys and other research since then. That workshop attracted 250 attendees who represented both short-term rental hosts and neighbors frustrated with the possible negative effects of these rentals, like party houses, noise and lack of parking.

Fall said city officials plan to present case studies of how four communities in Southern California have dealt with short-term rentals. They will also present different ideas on ordinances — like limiting outdoor pool use to certain hours — and ask the community to score them.

“It could be an outright ban, but that’s not likely,” Fall said. “It’s likely that there will be some regulations, but we’re still listening to the community.”

The group will host the final public review workshop in October, then the staff will finalize their recommendation to city council and present it there. The council will then have to approve any new ordinance.

The next workshop is 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 21, at Balboa Studio in the Museum of Latin American Art on 628 Alamitos Ave. Parking is ample. Translation services in Spanish, Tagalog, and Khmer, as well as light refreshments will be provided.