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Short-term rental rules in Georgetown, CO
How Georgetown 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.
- per-ward density cap (5% Ward I, 7% Wards II & III of single-family units)
- hard permit quota: no further permits issued once a Ward limit is reached
- STR permit / business license required with 24/7 local owner representative
- no owner-occupancy or primary-residence requirement
Based on: Georgetown Municipal Code Ch. 5.28 (Short-Term Rental of Residential Structures); adopted/effective 2017-01-31, amended
Summary of the rule
GMC 5.28.050(a) Ward limits (verbatim): 'No more than the following percentages of the single-family residential units in each Ward of the Town (as estimated in the most recent DRCOG community profile) may be eligible for short term rental permits without additional action by the Board of Selectmen to amend this Section: (1) Ward I: Five (5) percent. (2) Ward II: Seven (7) percent. (3) Ward III: Seven (7) percent. When the Town Administrator determines the limit has been reached in any Ward, no further permits shall be issued in the Ward. This limitation shall not apply to short-term rental properties which are occupied year-round by the owner thereof.' Plus 5.28.050(b) proximity limit: 'not more than one (1) short term rental shall be located on all properties or lots that abut any street segment.'
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