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Short-term rental rules in Sisters, OR
How Sisters 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.
- 500-foot minimum separation/concentration limit between short-term rentals in residential districts
- residential-zone STRs prohibited in areas annexed after 2024-10-25
- one-dwelling-unit-per-property limit under the concentration rule
- STR land-use approval + operating license required (SDC 2.15.2700 / SMC Ch. 5.50)
Based on: Sisters Development Code § 2.15.2700 (Short-Term Rentals) as amended by Ord. No. 540 (adopted 2024-09-25 by 3-1 vote
Summary of the rule
SDC 2.15.2700(E) Concentration Limits: 'A short-term rental cannot be approved on a property within the R, MFR, SRR, UAR, or NSBP Districts, or within a residential-only development in one of the designated areas ... for the DC district, if proposed to be sited within 500 feet of another property within the R, MFR, SRR, UAR, or NSBP zones, or within a residential-only development ... that has a valid short-term rental approval or is a legal non-conforming use.' (E)(2): where a property has multiple dwelling units, 'only one dwelling unit on the property may be used as a short-term rental.' (E)(3) defines 'within 500 feet' as a 500-foot straight-line radius between property lines. STRs in Commercial Districts (DC and HC) are exempt from the concentration limits (subsection C.1.b).
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