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Short-term rental rules in Greenville, SC
How Greenville 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.
- residential-zone exclusion: short-term rentals (a general lodging use) not allowed in any residential district
- short-term rentals allowed only in mixed-use, business and select non-residential districts
- STR license required with a 25% cap on STR units in buildings of 4 or more units
- former special-exception path for residential districts removed; only previously approved exceptions continue
Based on: City Code Ch. 19 Development Code (adopted June 12, 2023, eff. July 15, 2023; amended after 30-month review April 13
Summary of the rule
KEY: P = Use allowed ... - = Use not allowed. General lodging (up to 10 guest rooms): '-' in all residential district columns; P* in mixed-use/business districts (Sec. 3.4.4.D).
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