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Short-term rental rules in Fairplay, CO
How Fairplay 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 townwide cap: STR licenses limited to 6.5% of residential units
- STR license required from Town Clerk
- first-come-first-served allocation; no new applications once cap met
- no per-owner limit or primary-residence tier in the codified article
Based on: Fairplay Municipal Code Ch. 6 Art. V (Short-Term Rentals); Ordinance No. 4, Series of 2022, adopted 2022-03-21
Summary of the rule
Ordinance Number 4 ... limits the total number of permits available to 6.5% of the available housing units in Town at the time of adoption of the Ordinance. That calculation is 20 total permits.
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