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Short-term rental rules in Nederland, CO
How Nederland 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 70 total STR licenses (waitlist once reached)
- Primary-residence-only: STR licensee must be a primary resident (except Class C)
- Residential-zone exclusion: non-primary whole-home STR allowed only in CBD/General Commercial zones (Class C)
- One STR license of any type per person (per-owner limit)
Based on: Nederland Municipal Code Ch. 6, Art. V (Short-term Rental Licensing), §§ 6-91 to 6-103; established by Ord. No. 798
Summary of the rule
§6-94(a) (current codified, Ord. No. 860 §4, adopted May 18, 2024): 'There shall be a limit on the total number of short-term rental licenses that are licensed. The maximum number of licenses of any type that shall be issued is seventy (70) total licenses.' (b): 'If the maximum number of licenses has been reached, any subsequent application shall be placed on a waiting list until such time that the total number of short-term rentals falls below seventy (70) total licenses.' Editor's note: Ord. No. 860 §4 repealed the former §6-94 ('Primary residence short-term rental license') and enacted this cap. HARD CITYWIDE QUOTA in force.
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Active litigation / open question
Nederland property owners sued in 2024 to block the 2024 STR ordinance (Ord. 860), which requires primary residence and sets a townwide STR cap. The town's enacted 2019/2020 Ord. 798 regime (Class B closed, Class C limited to commercial zones, primary-residence-only licensing) applies independently of that suit. Source ↗
Reported as fact only, reflecting the code as currently in effect — not legal advice, and not a prediction of the outcome. Verify current status before relying on it.
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