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Short-term rental rules in Woodstock, VT
How Woodstock 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.
- Town zoning: all new STRs require discretionary conditional-use approval from the Town Development Review Board (TDRB) before guests may occupy
- Village STR ordinance caps rentals of a non-owner-occupied whole-home STR at 6 times per 12-month period (owner-occupied exempt only during the Sept 15-Oct 21 Foliage Period)
- Owner-occupied or a property manager within a 30-minute drive required for every STR in the Village
- Mandatory annual STR registry/authorization (Rentalscape/Deckard) with $75+ fee, fire-safety inspection, insurance endorsement
- 2024 unified ordinance (55 owner-occupied + 55 non-owner-occupied hard caps) rejected by TOWN voters 7/30/2024 -> Town reverted to prior ordinance; VILLAGE voters retained the new regime
Based on: Town zoning conditional-use requirement for STRs; Village of Woodstock Short Term Rental Ordinance (adopted 11/12/2019
Summary of the rule
For all new STRs in the Town of Woodstock, the Zoning Regulations require that an applicant receive conditional use approval from the Town Development Review Board (TDRB) before guests may occupy the space.
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