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Short-term rental rules in Minturn, CO
How Minturn 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: 10% of residential units or 50 units, whichever is fewer
- two-year prior-ownership hold before whole-home STR license
- community/deed-restricted housing excluded from STR licensing
- STR license required and nontransferable on sale
Based on: Minturn Municipal Code Ch.6 Art.7 (Short-Term Rentals), §6-7-40 (License restrictions); (Ord. 4-2017 §3; Ord. 7-2020
Summary of the rule
§6-7-40(f) Housing stock: 'No more than ten percent (10%) or fifty (50), whichever is fewer, of the residential housing units shall be licensed as short-term rentals in the Town at any time.' Hard townwide numeric cap on general residential stock. §6-7-40(e) Community housing: units the Town designates as community/deed-restricted housing may not be STR-licensed (residential-stock exclusion). Determining supply-foreclosing device.
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