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Short-term rental rules in Pagosa Springs, CO
How Pagosa Springs 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: no more than 10% of single-family residential units eligible for STR license in each residential zone district, and licensing halts once the district limit is reached
- Per-lot cap of one short-term vacation rental per residential-zoned lot (RA, RT, R6, R12, R22, MU-R districts)
- Conditional use permit required for any STR in residential zone districts, gating whole-home non-owner-occupied rentals
- 250-foot proximity/separation requirement barring a new STR near an existing one
- 2-year prior ownership (or certificate-of-occupancy) requirement before a CUP-tier STR license application is accepted
Based on: Pagosa Springs Municipal Code Ch. 6, Art. 7 (Vacation Rentals), §§6.7.3, 6.7.5(1)(e), 6.7.12; originally Ord. No. 894
Summary of the rule
No more than ten (10) percent of the single-family residential units in each residentially zoned district of the Town, as defined by Exhibit A—District Map, may be eligible for short-term vacation rental licenses. Once the Licensing Officer has determined that the limit has been reached in any district, no further licenses shall be issued in that district. This limitation shall not apply to short-term vacation properties which are occupied year-round by the owner thereof.
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