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Short-term rental rules in Salt Lake City, UT
How Salt Lake 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.
- Short-term rentals barred entirely from all Residential zones
- STR business license issued only in Mixed-Use, Downtown, Gateway and select non-residential zones
- Zoning-based exclusion forecloses whole-home/absentee STR across the general residential housing stock
- STR (under 30 days) treated as a hotel use, not a permitted residential use
Based on: SLC Zoning Title 21A (STR defined as a dwelling offering lodging <30 days, classified as hotel use) +
Summary of the rule
Short term rentals are not allowed in the City's Residential zones, but are allowed in the City's Mixed-Use, Downtown, and Gateway zones.
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