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Short-term rental rules in Lake City, CO
How Lake City 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 of 43 STR permits in residential zones (15% of residential units)
- per-owner limit of 3 permits per person/entity in residential zones
- STR permit required with mandatory fire inspection
- waiting list once the cap is reached
Based on: Lake City Code of Ordinances Ch. 23 (Zoning), § 23-5 Short-Term Rentals (Ord. No. 2023-13, § 1, adopted 11-15-2023
Summary of the rule
Verbatim § 23-5(d)(2)a.2: 'Maximum number of STR permits issued shall be limited to 43 STR permits (the "STR permit cap"), representing 15 percent of the total number of residential units in the residential zones at the time of passage of the ordinance from which this section is derived. Upon request, this number may be adjusted with approval of the board of trustees by resolution.' § 23-5(d)(2)a.3: 'Qualifying STR permits will be granted in the order in which they are received up to the STR permit cap. If an application is received after the STR permit cap is reached, then the applicant will be put on a waiting list.'
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