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Short-term rental rules in Glen Rose, TX
How Glen Rose 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.
- Discretionary Specific Use Permit (SUP) required to operate a short-term rental in R-1 (Single Family District)
- Discretionary Specific Use Permit (SUP) also required in R-3 (Single, Two-to-Four and Manufactured Home Residential District)
- SUP requires Planning & Zoning Commission recommendation plus City Council approval — a discretionary/deniable legislative act, not a ministerial permit
- Short-term rentals are an outright prohibited use in the Paluxy River Housing Overlay District (Ord. 2025-O-06)
Based on: City of Glen Rose Code of Ordinances, Chapter 14 (Zoning) — Specific Use Permit requirement for Short Term Rentals in
Summary of the rule
A Specific Use Permit is required to operate a short-term rental in the R-1 (Single Family District).
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