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Short-term rental rules in Nashville, IN
How Nashville regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Short-term rentals here operate under a registration or permit system with ongoing operating rules.
- STR-specific special exception required (Board of Zoning Appeals approval) for tourist homes
- whole-home tourist rentals confined to the Village and business districts by zoning
- owner-occupied host-present Home Stay only in R1/R2 residential districts (special exception)
- Indiana IC 36-1-24 sanctions the special-exception process but bars an outright STR ban
Based on: Town of Nashville Code Ch. 153 (Land Usage / Zoning) — Ord. 2000-6 (11-16-2000); tourist homes added as uses by Am.
Summary of the rule
Tourist Homes ... amended the restricted buffer area to permit tourist homes as a special exception use in the RB district (Am. Ord. 1997-5, passed 11-20-1997; Ord. 2000-6, passed 11-16-2000). Tourist home is a permitted use in the Local Business (Sec 153.050(10)), General Business (Sec 153.051(K)) and Service and Warehouse Business (Sec 153.052(HH)) districts.
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