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Short-term rental rules in Glenwood Springs, CO
How Glenwood Springs 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 numeric cap: short-term rentals limited to 5% of the City's total free-market residential units outside the General Improvement District (GID)
- Separate 15% cap on free-market residential units within the GID, with GID permits counting toward the citywide 5% total
- Minimum 250-foot separation requirement between short-term rental units (outside the multifamily/narrow exceptions)
- Multifamily buildings under single ownership sub-capped at 10% of units (STR) / 10% (accessory tourist rental)
Based on: Glenwood Springs Municipal Code, Title 070 (Development Code), Article 070.030 (Use Regulations), § 070.030.030(e)(9)
Summary of the rule
In all areas outside the City's General Improvement District (GID), as the GID may be amended from time to time, the total number of short-term rentals shall be limited to five (5) percent of the City's total free market residential units as determined by the State Demography Office. In addition, a short-term rental unit shall be located a minimum of two hundred fifty (250) feet from any other short-term rental unit. ... the five (5) percent cap on short-term rentals includes existing permitted units.
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