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Short-term rental rules in Mesquite, NV
How Mesquite 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 vacation home rental is a discretionary conditional-use-only in every residential zone (SF, MF-1 confirmed; use tables uniform under Ord. B24-004)
- Conditional use permit requires Planning Commission recommendation plus City Council public-hearing approval; deniable
- No by-right permitted VHR path in any residential district (by-right only where private CCRs expressly allow)
- STR-specific vacation home rental license also required; no citywide numeric cap or primary-residence requirement
Based on: Mesquite Municipal Code Title 2 Ch. 13 (Vacation Home Rental) + Title 9 zoning (permitted/conditional use listing for
Summary of the rule
SF (Single-Family Residential) use table §9-7F-2 and MF-1 (Attached Housing) use table §9-7G-2 both list '721199 Vacation home rental*' in the CONDITIONAL column only, footnoted: 'Vacation home rental shall only be permitted with the issuance of a conditional use permit, except in subdivisions/projects whose covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CCRs), and/or by laws, or design standards handbook expressly permit home rentals.' VHR is NOT in the Permitted-uses column of any residential district. (Ord. B24-004, 9-24-2024)
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