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Short-term rental rules in Brevard, NC
How Brevard 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.
- residential-zone exclusion — new whole-home STR prohibited in General Residential (GR)
- discretionary special-use permit required for whole-home STR in all other residential districts (RMX/NMX/DMX)
- STR permit required from Planning & Zoning with annual renewal and deniability
- by-right path in residential zones is host-present homestay only
Based on: Brevard UDO §2.2.C Use Matrix + §3.34 Short-Term Rentals and Homestays; Ordinance 2023-37 (adopted August 2023
Summary of the rule
New short-term rentals in which the host is absent are prohibited in the General Residential (GR) district; short-term rentals lawfully existing at adoption are grandfathered. Host-absent short-term rentals are otherwise allowed only by special use permit in the RMX/NMX/DMX districts and with standards in mixed-use/institutional districts.
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