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Short-term rental rules in Kingston, NY
How Kingston 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 (STR-F) permits hard-capped citywide at 1% of the City's housing units
- Only one STR permitted per property
- Accessory dwelling units may not be used as STRs
- Annual permit/registration required for all STR types
Based on: Kingston Form-Based Development Code, Art. 4 General Standards, §405-21 Supplemental use standards (Short-Term
Summary of the rule
Short-term rental, full permit (STR-F): a short-term rental permit for one dwelling unit; the number of STR-F permits is capped at 1% of the City's housing units. (The 1%-of-housing mechanism is the in-force cap; an early '106 permits' figure quoted from Aug 2023 is stale.)
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