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Short-term rental rules in Marquette, MI
How Marquette 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 cap of 250 short-term rental permits (maxed, 100+ owner waitlist)
- block-face density cap: one whole-home vacation rental and one homestay per street segment
- minimum one-parcel / right-of-way separation between STRs
- STR registration required with fire inspection
Based on: City of Marquette Land Development Code (Chapter 54) Section 54.624 Homestays and Vacation Home Rentals (codified LDC
Summary of the rule
One (1) registered Homestay and/or one (1) registered Vacation Home Rental may be permitted (by application) per street segment or block face between intersections, except where the street segment or block face exceeds 500 linear feet in length, in which case one (1) additional Short-Term Rental of each type is allowed for each exceedance of 500 linear feet.
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