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Short-term rental rules in Harbor Springs, MI
How Harbor 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 of 63 STR licenses in the RN residential-neighborhood district
- cap maxed with a waitlist — new whole-home foreclosed in the primary residential zone
- annual STR license required with designated 24-hour local agent
- no owner-occupancy or primary-residence requirement
Based on: Code of the City of Harbor Springs, Chapter 79 (Licensing of Short Term Rental of Residential Properties, Ord. No. 415)
Summary of the rule
Limit on Short-Term Rental Licenses. In the area defined as RN in the Zoning Code of the City of Harbor Springs as adopted by Ordinance No. 439, the cumulative maximum number of short-term rental licenses to be issued and outstanding in any calendar year shall not exceed sixty-three (63), provided any short term rental license issued as of the date of adoption of Ordinance No. 439 with respect to property located in the R-2 Zoning District as defined in the prior Zoning Code, shall also continue in full force and effect.
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