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Short-term rental rules in Long Beach, NY
How Long Beach 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/absentee STR prohibited in residential zones (ban by omission — transient use not a permitted residential use)
- only owner-occupied HOSTED rental of up to 2 rooms allowed (primary-residence + host-present)
- transient rental = dwelling rented for less than 28 days per the city's own codifying-ordinance framing
- criminal penalties cited: up to $2,500 / 15 days jail (1st offense), up to $30,000 (repeat) per tabled codifying ordinance
Based on: Existing prohibition via City Code / Appendix A Zoning (uncodified 'ban by omission'); separate ordinance to expressly
Summary of the rule
City of Long Beach Code of Ordinances (Supplement 87, current 2026-04-07), Appendix A Zoning: the Residence A/B/C districts (Sec. 9-105.x) each provide 'no building or premises shall be erected or altered, used or maintained, which is intended or designed to be used in whole or in part for other than one or more of the following specified uses,' then list only one-/two-family detached dwellings, public/utility, recreation, place of worship, and customary accessory uses. Transient rental / hotel / rooming house is NOT among the specified uses -> excluded from residential zones (ban by omission). 'Hotels' appear only in business/commercial district provisions. The 'Family' definition (Sec. 9-102) requires related persons or <=2 unrelated persons living and cooking together -> transient guests do not qualify. This enacted zoning exclusion forecloses whole-home STR in residential zones = Restrictive. (The express STR-ban codifying ordinance was tabled Aug 2024, but the operative exclusion pre-exists in the enacted zoning.)
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