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Short-term rental rules in Alamosa, CO
How Alamosa 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 numeric cap: STR licenses limited to 5% of total dwelling units within each of the city's short-term rental zones
- First-come-first-served waiting list kept by the city once a zone's 5% cap is reached
- STR-specific license required for every dwelling unit (per-unit, not per-operator)
- Multifamily buildings over 4 units barred entirely; multifamily buildings of 4 or fewer units restricted to 1 licensed STR unit
Based on: Alamosa Code of Ordinances (UDC) § 21-2-405, Short-term rental of dwelling units — enacted Ord. No. 33-2017 § 1
Summary of the rule
Short-term rental units shall be limited to five (5) percent of the total number of dwelling units within each short-term rental zone (grandfathered pre-ordinance license holders excepted); new licenses granted first-come-first-served; a waiting list by date of application is kept per zone once a zone is full.
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