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Short-term rental rules in Newport, OR
How Newport 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 rentals (VRDs) restricted to a Vacation Rental Overlay Zone proximate to tourist-commercial districts
- hard citywide license cap set by resolution (176; code ceiling 200) — new whole-home STR foreclosed by-right in residential zones
- VRDs outside the overlay are non-conforming and terminate on sale/transfer (phase-out)
- 2022 amendment: STR under 30 days prohibited in residential zones unless the home is the operator's primary residence
- primary-residence exception limited to home-share of up to 2 rooms / 4 persons
- proximity/spacing standards and density limits within the overlay
Based on: Newport Municipal Code Ch. 14.25 (Short-Term Rentals) / §14.25.030 & §14.25.035; Ord. No. 2144 adopted 2019-05-06
Summary of the rule
Ordinance 'Creates a Vacation Rental Overlay Zone (the "Overlay Zone") that restricts vacation rental dwellings to areas proximate to the city's major tourist commercial districts' and 'Limits the total number of vacation rentals within the zoning overlay to not more than 200, with a specific cap number to be set by Council resolution.'
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