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Short-term rental rules in Maggie Valley, NC
How Maggie Valley 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 — daily/weekly whole-home rental is classified as 'Lodging', not a residential use, and barred from all standard residential districts (R0-R3)
- Whole-home STR confined to mixed-use, commercial, and the R4 seasonal/short-term district only; no by-right STR use in any standard residential zone
- No municipal STR permit path available (NC G.S. 160D-1207 / Schroeder v. Wilmington bar a town STR registration or rental permit)
- No per-operator or citywide numeric cap; the foreclosure is by use-classification
Based on: Town of Maggie Valley UDO (Title XV, Land Usage), 151.07 Table of Permitted Uses - Use Categories; adopted 2022
Summary of the rule
Use Table 'Lodging' rows: 'Bed and Breakfast Inns' and 'Hotels, Motels, and Inns' show '-' (not permitted) in Rural (R0), Density (R1), Density (R2), Density (R3), and Short Term (R4) residential columns; permitted (P) only in the Mixed-Use and Commercial districts (Hotels = 'S' in the Farm/MU2 column). Residential districts permit 'Single Family Dwelling Unit' (P) i.e. long-term RESIDENTIAL use only.
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