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Short-term rental rules in Leadville, CO
How Leadville 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 cap of 165 total active STR licenses
- cap forecloses new whole-home/non-resident STRs while count is at maximum
- only resident-occupied single-unit parcels exempt from the cap
- one STR license per parcel; two non-resident-occupied units per parcel prohibited
Based on: Leadville Municipal Code Title 5, Chapter 5.12 (Short-Term Rentals); maximum-number cap amended by Ord. No. 2 Series
Summary of the rule
Leadville Municipal Code §5.12.090(K) (codified, verbatim): 'There shall be a maximum of one hundred and sixty-five (165) total active short-term rental licenses in the city at any given time. Resident-occupied licenses issued to a single-unit parcel with only one active license shall be exempt from the license cap. Class 1 licenses issued to a parcel with only one (1) active license shall be exempt from the license cap. Licenses issued for owner-occupied parcels with two (2) or more short-term rental units on a single parcel shall count as one (1) license toward the license cap...' §5.12.090(L) further caps licenses at one per parcel and prohibits operation of two non-resident-occupied STR units on a single parcel. NOTE: the prior class-of-license section §5.12.050 was REPEALED by Ord. No. 2024-5 §3 (9-17-24); the in-force cap is now a hard TOTAL citywide cap of 165 active STR licenses (not a Class-2-only cap), with an exemption only for resident-occupied single-unit parcels.
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