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Short-term rental rules in Fayetteville, AR
How Fayetteville regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Rules here limit which homes may operate as short-term rentals, how many, where, or for how many nights a year.
- hard citywide cap of 475 Type 2 (non-owner-occupied) STR licenses — cap reached, applicants placed on a waitlist
- discretionary conditional-use permit required for Type 2 STR in residential zoning districts
- 100-foot separation between Type 2 STRs (Dec 2025 amendment)
- owner-occupancy device: Type 1 requires resident occupancy 9 months/year
Based on: Fayetteville City Code §118.01(E)(16) (Applicability / STR density cap), Ord. 6672 (adopted 2023-07-06); UDC §164.26
Summary of the rule
“(16) Density For Type 2 Short-Term Rentals. A city-wide density cap of 475 dwelling units may be Type 2 rentals. A conditional use permit may not permit: (a) More Type 2 short-term rentals than what is allowed by the city-wide density cap.”
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