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Short-term rental rules in Salida, CO
How Salida 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 numeric caps per zone on short-term rental licenses (Mixed-Use Downtown 99, Mixed-Use Neighborhood 75, Residential R-1/R-2/R-3/AG/PD 85, Mixed-Use Center/Mixed-Use Highway 50 — 309 total citywide)
- Bona fide Chaffee County residency required of the STR applicant and property owner to obtain a license, foreclosing non-resident whole-home STR ownership
- County residency requirement does NOT apply within the Mixed-Use Downtown (MD) or Mixed-Use Center (MC) zoning districts — residency gate is zone-scoped, so residential and highway-corridor zones remain foreclosed to absentee owners while downtown does not
- No more than one short-term rental license permitted per property owner (per-owner limit, not citywide-foreclosing on its own, but stacked on top of the residency gate and hard zone caps)
Based on: Salida Municipal Code Ch. 6, Art. VI (§§ 6-6-10 through 6-6-60), originally Ord. No. 2017-06 (5-16-2017), zone caps
Summary of the rule
Chaffee County residency. To be eligible to apply for a short-term rental license, the applicant and owner of the property to be rented must be a bona fide resident of Chaffee County... The residency requirements in this Subsection (g) shall not apply to properties within the Mixed-Use Downtown ("MD") or Mixed-Use Center ("MC") zoning districts.
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