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Short-term rental rules in Anaconda, MT
How Anaconda 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.
- Whole-home STR ('Tourist Home') requires a discretionary Major Development Permit as a special use in the core urban residential districts (LDRD, MDRD)
- Not a by-right permitted use in the town's residential neighborhoods — residential-zone exclusion of by-right whole-home STR
- Permitted by-right only in outlying estate/resort development districts (ARED 10.0-acre, Georgetown Lake, Spring Hill)
- No municipal lodging tax (consolidated pop. ~9,400 exceeds MCA 7-6-1501 resort-tax thresholds); only the state 8% lodging tax applies
Based on: Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Code of Ordinances (Municode; codified through Ord. No. 281, 2025-06-03; Supp. 17). Land use
Summary of the rule
ADLC Code Ch. 24 use tables. LDRD §24-72 Permitted Uses (subject to ADP): '(1) Single-family Dwelling Units, including Class A Manufactured Homes. (2) Residential Accessory Structures. (3) Day Care Homes. (4) Home Occupations.' — Tourist Home NOT listed. LDRD §24-73 Special Uses (subject to a MDP): '(1) Tourist Homes...'. MDRD §24-82 Permitted Uses (ADP): single-family, two-family, accessory structures, day care — Tourist Home NOT listed. MDRD §24-83 Special Uses (MDP): '(1) Tourist Homes...'. Tourist Home is a permitted by-right use only in outlying districts (ARED 10.0 §24-62(3)(b); Georgetown Lake §24-212(2) 'Tourist Homes which are [limited to one Dwelling Unit]'; Spring Hill §24-222(3) 'Tourist Homes which are limited to one Dwelling Unit or one portion thereof'). Whole-home STR in the core urban residential neighborhoods is thus available only via a discretionary Major Development Permit (special use), not by-right = residential-zone supply device (CUP-only).
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