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Short-term rental rules in Silverthorne, CO
How Silverthorne 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.
- Zone-based hard cap: Area 1 = 10% of dwelling units, Area 2 = 50%
- residential-zone exclusion (Area 3 deed-restricted/workforce: no STR licenses)
- STR unit license required with waitlist when caps reached
- occupancy capped at 2 persons per bedroom plus two
Based on: Silverthorne Charter & Municipal Code, Ch.1 Art.VII Div.3 (Short-Term Rental Properties), §§1-7-50—1-7-69; zone-based
Summary of the rule
§1-7-52 License required—Maximum number of licenses, (b): 'The maximum number of short-term rental unit licenses permitted within the town shall be ten percent (10%) of all approved residential dwelling units within Area 1 and fifty percent (50%) of all approved residential dwelling units with Area 2 as such areas are defined on the map as shown below. No short-term rental units shall be permitted in Area 3. Owner occupied short-term rentals shall be exempt from the caps and allowed in Areas 1 and 2 only.' Waitlist implemented once a zone hits its cap (§1-7-55). [NOTE: determining device is §1-7-52, not §1-7-61 as originally cited — §1-7-61 is 'Posting requirements'.]
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