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Short-term rental rules in Montrose, CO
How Montrose regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Short-term rentals here are subject to registration, a lodging tax, or a small number of operating rules.
- City levies its own municipal lodging/hotel excise tax reaching STR stays
- STRs permitted by right in all zoning districts under the codified use table (no residential-zone exclusion)
- Only a general city sales tax license required; no STR-specific permit or cap
- No STR-specific special-use standard referenced in the zoning use table
Based on: Montrose Code of Ordinances Title XI, Ch. 11-7 (Zoning Regulations) — Ch. 11-7 repealed and re-enacted by Ord. No. 2677
Summary of the rule
City hotel excise (lodging) tax raised from 0.9% to 6% by Ballot Measure 2A (approved Nov 2024, effective 2025-01-01); combined rate for hotel/lodging establishments (incl. STRs) is 14.53% effective 2025-01-01. This is the City of Montrose's OWN municipal lodging tax reaching STR stays.
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