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Short-term rental rules in Saratoga, WY
How Saratoga 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: whole-home STR is not a permitted use in any residential district
- discretionary planning-commission special permit required even to rent a portion of a single-family home
- no by-right whole-home STR use listed in RD 14000 / RD 9000 / RD 9002 use tables
- no citywide numeric cap or per-owner limit in force
Based on: Town of Saratoga Municipal Code, Title 18 Zoning (eCode360) — RD 14000 (Ch. 18.15), RD 9000 (Ch. 18.24) and companion
Summary of the rule
RD 14000 §18.15.020 Permitted uses (exhaustive): 'A. Detached single-family dwellings...; B. Gardening; C. Churches and Sunday schools...; D. Public park, playground or athletic field; E. Public or parochial school; F. A mobile home... during construction...; G. Museum; H. Buried underground utility lines...; I. Library.' §18.15.040 Special permit uses (planning-commission review): '...J. The renting of a portion of a single-family dwelling unit...'. RD 9000 §18.24.020 Permitted uses list (dwellings, duplexes, multiple-family, condominiums, churches, parks, schools, museum, library) likewise omits STR; §18.24.040.J again places 'The renting of a portion of a single-family dwelling unit' under discretionary special permit. Whole-home STR is not a permitted or special use in any residential district; even partial rental requires a discretionary special permit.
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