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Short-term rental rules in Hill City, SD
How Hill City 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: nightly vacation rentals permitted only in Commercial zones
- STR use foreclosed by-right in all R (residential) divisions
- ADUs expressly barred from short-term (nightly) rental
- no citywide numeric cap or per-owner limit
Based on: Zoning Code of the City of Hill City, South Dakota — Title 9 (Zoning & Subdivision Regulations), Section 501
Summary of the rule
§501 'Residential Zones Defined' lists permitted uses (single-family dwellings, townhomes/twinhomes, public/governmental uses, etc.) and conditional uses (two-family, multiple-unit, condominiums, ADU & Park Model Homes, public utilities, daycare, camping, office buildings, 'and all other uses not specifically permitted') for R Divisions 1–4. Vacation rentals / nightly rentals / short-term rentals are NOT enumerated as permitted or conditional uses in any residential division — STR is not a by-right residential use.
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