Rule changes
Short-term rental rule changes, city by city.
New ordinances, fee changes, court rulings and proposals across every market we track, newest first. Each one links to the official source and to the city's full rules.
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From January 1, 2027 the city will notify platforms to remove listings without a certificate of registration.
City Council voted 9-5 on September 21, 2026 to delete the limit to a primary residence plus one additional unit from Sec. 20-1004(d). A proposed two-unit cap failed. The change takes effect January 1, 2027.
Annual $200 registration, inspections and a designated contact for vacation rentals in unincorporated Hillsborough County. Cities including Tampa may opt in.
Oregon's state transient lodging tax rises from 1.5% to 2.75% on January 1, 2027 (HB 4134, passed March 2026). The new 1.25% portion must be labeled a 'nature conservation fee' on invoices, and stays that begin in 2026 and end on or after January 1, 2027 pay the higher rate on the whole stay. Portland's combined lodging tax rises from 13% to 14.25% (before the 3% TID fee and $4 nightly fee).
The county's adopted fee schedule raises STR fees in two annual steps. From July 1, 2027: application $618, permit $293, notification $266 (new application $1,177) and no-change renewal $566. From July 1, 2028: $636, $301 and $273 (new application $1,210) and no-change renewal $582.
On August 12, 2026 the Planning Commission voted 11-0 to recommend shrinking the Oceanfront Resort Short-Term Rental Overlay District using the smaller 'Alternative A' map (rather than the larger staff-proposed reduction), with existing lawfully permitted rentals grandfathered if their conditional use permit was issued before September 1, 2026. The recommendation now goes to City Council for final action; no City Council hearing date has been scheduled yet.
City Council asked legal staff for a written report on how Tampa could opt into the county's registration and inspection ordinance.
City staff proposed replacing the current four-unrelated-adults occupancy rule with a standard set by the Charleston Fire Marshal based on bedroom count under the International Property Maintenance Code, with a hard cap of 8 guests per unit regardless of size (29 of the city's roughly 600 permitted STRs currently exceed 8 guests and would be grandfathered). The Planning Commission held a public hearing on July 15, 2026 and voted unanimously that the proposal was 'not ready to go to City Council,' deferring it. As of this pass (Sept 26, 2026) it has not been rescheduled, has not had a City Council reading, and is not law. The current four-adult limit in this page remains accurate.
The city sued Airbnb and Slumber Stay LLC (and its owner) in the Circuit Court of Cook County, alleging unregistered listings, use of a single nontransferable hotel license across many units, and continued renting after nearly 200 citations; it seeks fines, forfeiture of profits and an injunction. Airbnb said it cannot comment on active litigation. As of September 26, 2026 no ruling, settlement or dismissal had been reported.
Would let owner-occupants of one- and two-family homes host up to four boarders plus their children, skip the host-presence requirement, and lock bedrooms, bathrooms and storage areas. Introduced April 30, 2026 (prime sponsor Mercedes Narcisse) and referred to the Committee on Housing and Buildings; no hearing or vote recorded as of September 26, 2026. It replaces Int 0948-2024, which had a committee hearing on November 20, 2025 and was filed at the end of session on December 31, 2025 without a vote.
A City Council resolution on violence and criminal activity at some short-term rentals asks the Mayor's administration to engage an outside organization to strengthen STR monitoring and enforcement and to report back within 90 days with recommendations, which may include ordinance amendments. It does not itself change the rules.
Mayor Bowser's bill (B26-0647), introduced by Chairman Mendelson on her behalf, would let renters (outside rent-stabilized units, and where the lease allows) license their primary residence, allow a second STR/Vacation Rental license for an additional property (also capped at 90 unhosted nights/year), keep the 90-night cap for unhosted stays, and add a special-event license for Mayor-designated events. As of September 26, 2026 it has not passed: it was referred to the Committee on Public Works and Operations on March 31, 2026, with a Notice of Intent to Act published April 3, 2026, and no vote, hearing, or enactment has occurred since.
At a March 11, 2026 council workshop, city staff outlined zoning amendments for guest houses (non-owner-occupied STRs): special use permits for some guest-house uses, on-site managers for new guest houses, removing parking credits so on-site parking is required, and possible scaled fees. No vote was taken; further hearings were expected. Reported by a secondary meeting-summary source; confirm on the city's agenda pages.
Kaanapali Royal owners (Malter v. County of Maui, filed December 19, 2025) and a proposed class of Minatoya List owners (Lynam v. County of Maui, filed December 22, 2025) sued in Hawaii's Second Circuit Court, alleging an unconstitutional taking of vested property rights and seeking an injunction and compensation. No ruling blocking the phase-out deadlines had been reported as of September 2026.
The city filed a petition for review on October 16, 2025, asking the court to let it enforce the ban. If granted, the single-family ban and registration rules could take effect.
Buncombe County's Short-Term Rental Ad Hoc Committee, which had been expected to deliver policy recommendations by late 2024, indefinitely postponed further meetings after Hurricane Helene, shelving additional STR restrictions to focus on disaster recovery.
The town's Committee to Assess and Recommend Strategies for Housing Creation recommended that the Town Council create a regulatory structure for short-term rentals, including registration, fees and operational standards. No ordinance has been adopted; a 2020 STR ordinance proposal was withdrawn.
Palm Springs's Administrative Appeals Board voted in May 2025 to direct legal counsel to incorporate a requirement that vacation rental management companies register with the city, and to clarify the ordinance's "28 consecutive days" language to "28 consecutive nights." In June 2025 the board sent these recommendations to the City Council, including fines of $2,500, $5,000 and $10,000 for management companies advertising unlicensed units. As of September 2026 neither change appears in the municipal code, which still says "days" and has no management-company registration.
The Planning Commission recommended cutting vacation rental caps from 100% to 0% in the Industrial district, to 25% in D-1, D-3 and C-4c, to 50% in C-4a and C-4b, and to 35% in C-3. C-1, C-2 and D-2 would stay at 25% and HR at 100%. Existing licenses would not be affected. In June 2026 the City Commission agreed to revisit the proposal; no adoption found as of September 2026.
Senate Bill 291, introduced in the North Carolina Senate in March 2025, would bar cities from outright STR prohibitions and overnight caps and set guardrails for local permit systems. As of September 26, 2026, the General Assembly shows no action since its March 17, 2025 referral to the Senate Committee on Rules and Operations. If passed, it would likely require Asheville to allow whole-home rentals beyond the Resort zoning district.
Options under review included citywide or percentage caps, new caps in more districts, escalating penalties, and removing the low/high-intensity tourist home distinction.
History
Changes by month
Dates are when a change was introduced, adopted or took effect, as recorded on each market page. How we track changes
September 2026
The city's STR permit page now lists $450 for Type 1 and $1,000 for Type 2 three-year permits, plus an 8% surcharge, up from $300 and $450, and raises Board of Adjustment special exception fees to $460 / $690. A secondary source ties the change to the FY 2027 budget adopted September 17, 2026; the budget takes effect October 1, 2026. Exact fee effective date not yet confirmed on an official source.
Approved September 15, 2026 after a first reading on August 19, 2026. Sets a $1,000-per-day civil penalty for advertising or operating without a valid Certificate of Compliance, raises the expired-certificate penalty from $250 to $1,000 per day, shields timely renewals pending on city processing, keeps violations attached through ownership or management changes, and revises the certificate-suspension provisions. Effective date and ordinance number not yet published on the city page.
Metro Council exempted two downtown units from the 100-foot distance rule for not-owner-occupied permits. Property-specific; no change to the general rules.
August 2026
In August 2026 the LA City Attorney sued an alleged network of 30+ illegal short-term rentals (including rent-stabilized units) that used expired or invalid Home-Sharing registration numbers and raised prices more than 10% after the January 2025 wildfires. The City Attorney says California's price-gouging limit on rental housing remains in effect for the duration of the emergency extensions, so STR rates in LA remain subject to it.
Effective August 21, 2026, new Residential zone VHR applications go onto a waitlist as the city approaches the 900-permit cap. Waitlisted applications are not reviewed until a space becomes available, with no stated timeline.
In Bodin v. City of New Orleans (No. 25-30524), brought by hosts and Airbnb, the Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court: the 2023 ordinance's one-license-per-block limit and lottery are not a taking, and Section 230 does not block the 2024 ordinance's requirement that platforms verify a valid permit before booking. The rules remain fully in force.
July 2026
Ordinance 2133, dated July 8, 2026 in the code history, implements California's Short-Term Rental Facilitator Act (SB 346). Booking platforms must report the address of every short-term rental each month, can be asked for parcel numbers and listing URLs, and must display the City Account Number on listings. It also amended several Chapter 5.25 sections, including guest signature and on-site posting rules. The City Council introduced it in June 2026, and press coverage said it extends the appeal window from 10 to 30 days.
Platforms must require license numbers in listings, remove unlicensed listings within 10 days of a City notice, and not take fees for unlicensed bookings.
An additional 1.00% county sales and use tax took effect in Mecklenburg County on July 1, 2026, raising the combined rate on accommodation rentals (before the room occupancy tax) from 7.25% to 8.25%.
June 2026
Scottsdale adopted Ordinance 4719, adding a definition of "event center" to SRC § 18-2 (weddings, receptions, corporate events, conferences and other gatherings with a commercial purpose) so the existing ban on non-residential STR use in SRC § 18-171 can be enforced. Ordinary residential gatherings are excluded.
Created H-3 and H-4 hotel districts for former A-1/A-2 apartment properties where transient vacation rentals may continue after the Bill 9 phase-out. Individual properties still need to be rezoned; the first rezoning resolutions were referred to the Maui Planning Commission and more were before the Housing and Land Use Committee in August-September 2026.
Voters approved Measure TC in the June 2026 primary, requiring online travel companies to collect and remit Transient Occupancy Tax based on the full amount guests pay (including service fees), not just the negotiated room rate. Estimated to raise about $5 million annually.
Voters rejected a proposed temporary increase of the Transient Occupancy Tax from 14% to 16% (stepping down to 15% in 2029) in the June 2026 primary election.
May 2026
Signed into law May 11, 2026 as Act 519; requires human-trafficking-awareness training within 60 days of employment and annually thereafter for short-term rentals managed by a third-party property manager. Owner-managed STRs and those rented fewer than 15 days a year are exempt.
Ordinance 30625 MCS, adopted May 7, 2026, created a citywide Transient Lodging Interim Zoning District that turns commercial STRs, hotels/motels, hostels, timeshares and bed and breakfasts into conditional uses needing City Council approval wherever they were otherwise permitted, pausing new transient-lodging development while the City Planning Commission completes a transient-lodging study. Interim districts typically last up to one year with a possible extension.
April 2026
Metro Council exempted one property from the 100-foot distance rule for non-owner-occupied permits. Property-specific; no change to the general rules.
March 2026
In Dorotik v. Town of Breckenridge (2026 COA 20), the Colorado Court of Appeals held that the town's short-term rental regulatory fee is a regulatory fee, not a tax that needed voter approval under TABOR, so the fee stays in place.
Following a 2025 court ruling that struck down Measure T's residential-area VHR ban, the city adopted a new ordinance establishing a 900-permit cap with a waitlist for Residential zones, alongside updated fees, occupancy limits, and a minimum renter age of 25.
Metro Council rezoned 14 properties from RM20-A to a Specific Plan that permits not-owner-occupied STRs. Site-specific; shows that SP zoning can allow investor permits on otherwise residential land.
Metro Codes moved STR permit applications online.
Phoenix amended City Code § 10-197 so that an STR permit application for a property with an ADU whose certificate of occupancy was issued on or after September 14, 2024, must include a notarized attestation that the owner will live on the property. The city also requires proof of address with the attestation.
January 2026
DATCP's revised ATCP 72 lodging rules, which cover Tourist Rooming Houses, took effect January 25, 2026, updating safety standards, terminology and inspection requirements.
The City began using the nuisance and mitigation tools created by the 2025 ordinance.
SB 346, effective January 1, 2026, lets California cities compel short-term rental platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo to disclose listing addresses, parcel numbers and URLs, but only if the city adopts an ordinance invoking the law; it also allows audits and penalties for platform non-compliance.
Seattle's local sales and use tax rose by 0.1% for local law enforcement programs, and King County imposed a matching tax, bringing Seattle's combined sales tax rate to 10.55%. Retail sales tax applies to short-term rental charges.
Act 96, Session Laws of Hawaii 2025, raised the state TAT from 10.25% to 11% on January 1, 2026. The 3% Oahu county TAT and 4.5% Oahu GET are unchanged.
Hawaii's state Transient Accommodations Tax rose from 10.25% to 11% for January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2030.
City Council approved the ordinance April 16, 2025; applications opened August 1, 2025 and the rules took effect January 1, 2026.
December 2025
Under a 2005 settlement agreement, Truman Annex properties held transient licenses (weekly rentals for half the year, monthly for the rest) for 20 years. The city notified owners that all of those licenses would be placed into inactive status and void on December 22, 2025; since then Truman Annex owners may not rent for less than a month. A proposal from owners to extend the licenses for another 20 years in exchange for $15 million toward affordable housing was not placed on a City Commission agenda, and the roughly 300 licenses will not be recirculated for purchase elsewhere in the city.
The Town Council amended Code Chapter 170 (Order No. 2026-064) to raise the rental registration fee to $250 per certificate and $250 for each additional unit at the same address, citing unchanged fees and growth in the rental inventory.
November 2025
Aligns the STR definition with state law, excludes accessory structures, ADUs, tents, trailers and mobile units from STR use, treats each dwelling unit on a site as a separate STR, requires the owner's bedroom to be a traditional bedroom shown on the approved floor plan, and requires a certificate of liability insurance ($500,000 minimum) from a Nevada-licensed insurer. Recommended by committee November 3, 2025 and adopted on the council consent agenda November 19, 2025 (adoption reported by a secondary source; the city's posted packet is the unsigned draft).
City Council approved STR amendments on November 18, 2025, applied from the 2026 renewal period: permits can transfer to next of kin on death or divorce; a new 90-day STR-Temporary permit lets a buyer honor reservations booked before the sale; HOA affidavits are no longer required at renewal; and tax-filing exemptions are available for units made uninhabitable by a natural emergency or under an active building permit. A proposal to allow transfers for estate planning (trusts, family members) was postponed. Reported by local news; the city's own announcement could not be fetched in this pass.
City Council approved comprehensive STR ordinance updates on November 13, 2025, effective on adoption: $250 annual license per unit, $500 late fee, 24/7 local contact responding within one hour, required in-unit information sheet, and revocation eligibility after three violations in 12 months.
Ordinance 2118, adopted November 12, 2025, amended the operating rules in § 5.25.070. According to a secondary source, it removed a scheduled January 1, 2026 cut of the existing-permittee limit to 26 contracts. The current code text confirms existing permittees keep 32 contracts a year plus 4 in the third quarter, with no sunset date.
Honolulu adopted Ordinance 25-52 (Bill 62 (2025), CD1), amending bed and breakfast home and transient vacation unit standards. It lists the four apartment-zoned areas where registered STRs are allowed outside resort districts (adding A-2 lots contiguous to Hoakalei Resort and Lagoon), restates the 90-consecutive-day advertising rule and fines of up to $5,000 plus up to $10,000 per day, and took effect on approval. DPP says it continues to enforce the minimum as 30 consecutive days.
In November 2025 voters approved three sales tax measures (0.3% for the Aspen School District, 0.5% for the Aspen Fire Protection District and 0.25% for early childhood education), raising Aspen's aggregate sales tax from 9.30% to 10.35% from 2026. Because lodging and STR stays also pay sales tax, combined totals would rise by 1.05 points (to roughly 12.35% for hotels, 17.35% for Owner-Occupied/Lodging-Exempt and 22.35% for Classic STRs), as Aspen Journalism reported in July 2026. The city's tax page still showed 11.30%/16.30%/21.30% when checked; confirm with the city before relying on either figure.
October 2025
Sedona amended Chapter 5.25 to add permit suspension authority (including for false application information) and a one-time late renewal fee ($50 up to 90 days late, $100 after that, effective January 1, 2026). From October 23, 2025, incomplete or invalid applications and renewals are denied.
SB 346 (Chapter 751, Statutes of 2025, approved October 13, 2025) authorizes local agencies to require short-term rental facilitators such as Airbnb and Vrbo to report each rental's address and to display local license and tax certificate numbers, with administrative fines for non-compliance. It applies in a city only through a local ordinance; whether San Diego has adopted one was not confirmed.
In Hignell-Stark v. City of New Orleans (No. 24-30160), the Fifth Circuit held that barring LLCs and other business entities from holding STR owner or operator permits violates equal protection, and that requiring each listing to advertise only one dwelling unit violates the First Amendment. It upheld the NSTR operator-residency requirement only as construed to apply while guests occupy the property, along with the other advertising disclosure rules. The city's 2026 training materials now list LLCs and trusts as eligible NSTR owners.
September 2025
Scottsdale adopted Ordinance 4687 to comply with the 2025 state ADU law (HB2928). Among other ADU rules, the property owner must live on the premises for any ADU that is rented, leased or occupied as a vacation or short-term rental.
Council replaced City Code Chapter 4-23 (Ordinance No. 20250911-012, passed September 11, 2025): up to two STRs per site, 1,000-ft spacing between an operator's sites, 10%/25% caps in larger buildings, 2-year licenses, no insurance or Certificate of Occupancy requirement, and tenants allowed to apply.
A federal district court upheld nearly all of New Orleans' STR regulations, including density limits, platform verification mandates, and reporting requirements. Airbnb announced it would appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The rules stayed in force during the appeal, which the Fifth Circuit decided in the city's favor on August 5, 2026.
July 2025
The Fifth Court of Appeals affirmed the temporary injunction against both ordinances (except as to one individual plaintiff).
A 2025 Tennessee law makes the first 30 days of any STR stay subject to local occupancy tax, even when the guest stays longer than 30 days.
Phoenix's base transaction privilege tax rate, which also applies to hotels and short-term lodging, rose from 2.3% to 2.8% on July 1, 2025. With the separate 3.0% transient lodging tax, the city's share on stays of 29 days or less is 5.8%, and the combined rate is 13.07%.
Tennessee Public Chapter 364 (2025) makes the first 30 days of occupancy in a short-term rental unit subject to local occupancy tax regardless of the overall length of stay.
June 2025
The city accepted Tier 4 (Mission Beach whole-home) waitlist applications from July 1 to August 15, 2025, the first window since November 2022. A random lottery set waitlist order; licenses are issued from the waitlist only as Tier 4 licenses become available (113 applicants on the published waitlist as of September 15, 2026).
City Council voted in June 2025 to take hotel occupancy tax collection and STR registration back from the Park Board of Trustees (assigned to it in 2015), effective October 1, 2025.
After the court struck down Measure T, the City Council adopted Ordinance 2025-1200 on June 17, 2025, reopening residential VHR permits under stricter rules (including a 150-foot buffer between VHRs). It was in force until Ordinance 2026-1203 replaced the buffer with the 900-permit cap on April 23, 2026.
May 2025
City Council adopted a fee package on May 21, 2025 raising all ASTR fees (initial, renewal and delinquent fees for Type A and Type B, and citation fees) by 5-6% effective July 1, 2025, and fines are now assessed per violation type, up to five types of offense.
HB25-1247 raises the maximum county lodging tax from 2% to 6% and widens its allowed uses, but any new tax or rate increase needs approval from voters in the affected unincorporated areas and municipalities. Summit County's rate on Breckenridge stays the same unless voters approve an increase.
HB 256 amended Utah Code 10-8-85.4 for cities (and 17-50-338 for counties). A city still may not ban or punish someone solely for listing a short-term rental online. It may use a listing as evidence that a rental took place only if it has additional information showing a violation. The law also expressly lets cities require a business license before a short-term rental operates, and lets them ask platforms to remove listings that break license or zoning rules.
Voter-approved Measure C replaced the flat 10.5% TOT with zone-based rates (11.75%, 12.75%, 13.75%) effective May 1, 2025.
April 2025
The City Council passed Ordinance 5937 on third and final reading on April 8, 2025, raising the city hotel-motel occupancy tax to 4.0%; the City's short-term room occupancy tax form now uses 4.0%.
Platforms that take payment for Austin STRs collect and remit the City's hotel occupancy tax.
March 2025
After a moratorium on new density-cap exception applications (none accepted after September 19, 2024), the City Council adopted Ordinance 30311 MCS on March 27, 2025, removing the special-exception process from the zoning code and making the one-NSTR-per-square-block cap absolute. The City Planning Commission stopped processing the remaining pending exception applications on October 10, 2025.
Sedona rewrote much of Chapter 5.25, including the rule that ADUs with a certificate of occupancy on or after September 14, 2024 can only be STRs if the owner's primary residence is the main house, with older guest quarters grandfathered.
On March 13, 2025, El Dorado County Superior Court struck down Measure T (2018) in its entirety, finding its permanent-resident exception unconstitutional. Measure T had banned new residential-area VHR permits, and existing residential permits expired in 2021. The City Council voted not to appeal on April 1, 2025.
New STRO fee schedule took effect, covering Tier 1-2 ($33 application / $193-284 license) and Tier 3-4 ($41 application / $1,129 license).
February 2025
Council made STRs an accessory use to residential property in every zoning district and moved STR rules from the zoning code (Title 25) to Title 4. The zoning code's STR subpart, including its guest occupancy limits, was repealed effective August 4, 2025.
A transit surcharge raised the local sales tax rate on Nashville STR stays from 2.25% to 2.75%, for 9.75% total with the state rate.
Before 2025
City Council gave final approval to an overlay zone that bars hotels and rental buildings of more than two units historically used for stays under 90 days from converting to long-term rentals, with exceptions for existing long-term rental licensees and units never rented commercially.
City council passed on second reading (6-1) an ordinance creating a one-time 60-day window for certain owners whose STR licenses lapsed to reapply, and giving first-time Zone A (green) violators 15 days to fix noncompliance before a court summons. Zone B and C owners who never held a license remain ineligible and still face direct court action. No changes to zones, caps or fees.
The city's annual CPI-based adjustment raised home-sharing violation fines effective September 1, 2024 (e.g., owner/host violations to $605.73/day, platform violations to $1,211.33/day, extended-stay violations to $2,422.89/day).
SB 280 would have centralized state oversight of vacation rentals, including requiring platforms to collect and remit taxes and further limiting local regulation. Governor DeSantis vetoed the bill on June 27, 2024, leaving Florida's existing partial-preemption framework (grandfathered pre-2011 local rules, no outright bans or frequency caps for post-2011 jurisdictions) in place.
Under the June 2024 ordinance amendments, Airbnb and Vrbo remit state and city hotel occupancy tax directly for San Antonio listings starting March 10, 2025. Operators still file monthly city reports and pay Bexar County HOT themselves.
Signed May 3, 2024, Act 17 amended HRS § 46-4 so that transient accommodations uses may be amortized or phased out in residential or agricultural zoned areas, and residential uses do not include transient accommodations. This narrows the nonconforming-use protection the 2023 federal court relied on; Honolulu has not yet used it to phase out existing 30-89 day rentals, per the sources checked.
HB24-1299, which would have taxed short-term rental units that are not a primary or secondary residence at the much higher "lodging property" tax rate, was postponed indefinitely by the House Finance Committee in a 10-0 vote, following a similar failed attempt in 2022. It never took effect.
Following county commission resolutions passed June 26, 2023, Sevier County began requiring an annual permit and fire-safety inspection for every short-term rental unit in unincorporated areas of the county, effective January 1, 2024.
In Hawaii Legal Short-Term Rental Alliance v. City and County of Honolulu, the U.S. District Court for Hawaii enjoined the city from enforcing Ordinance 22-7 (including its advertising rules) against 30-89 day rentals lawfully operating before October 23, 2022, under HRS § 46-4(a).
City Council adopted a zoning ordinance limiting STRs to multifamily, office, mixed-use, commercial and similar districts, and a registration ordinance (Chapter 42B). Enforcement was set to begin December 14, 2023 but was blocked by a temporary injunction on December 6, 2023.
The city's first hotel/motel tax increase in nearly three decades took effect September 1, 2023, raising the rate from 6% to 8% of taxable lodging charges.
At its May 3, 2023 meeting the Board of Commissioners approved UDO text amendments rescinding the short-term rental registration program (and its $25 fee and fines), following the appeals court ruling against Wilmington's STR registration rules.
Ordinances 029381 MCS and 029382 MCS rewrote New Orleans' STR rules following a 2022 federal appeals ruling: residential STRs were capped at one per square block (with a since-eliminated exception process), an on-site operator with a roughly one-hour complaint-response requirement was mandated, and platforms were required to report data to the city monthly.
Okaloosa County's tourist development tax on rentals of six months or less rose from 5% to 6% in the original tax district on January 1, 2023, and in the expanded district on March 1, 2025. Combined with 6% state sales tax and the county's 1% sales surtax, Destin short-term rentals now carry 13% in lodging taxes.
Following the 2022 statewide enforcement overhaul (SB1168), Scottsdale enacted Ordinance 4566 establishing mandatory licensing, insurance, background-check, neighbor-notice, and escalating-penalty requirements for short-term rentals.
The city's current vacation rental certificate framework — including the 20% neighborhood cap, certificate types, and annual contract limits — was adopted via Ordinance 2075 on November 28, 2022.
Voters approved raising the city's TOT from 8% to 9% on January 1, 2024 and to 10% on January 1, 2025, bringing the combined TOT plus 3% BBLTBID to 13% for short-term overnight stays.
Ordinance 20-O-1656 created the short-term rental license, agent, occupancy and tax rules; the regulations took effect March 1, 2022.
Council Bill CB20-1229 prohibited booking platforms such as Airbnb and Vrbo from processing bookings for Denver short-term rentals that lack a valid city license.
Council Bill CB20-0240 updated how the city verifies primary residence and increased short-term rental licensing fees.
Tennessee's 2018 statewide Short-Term Rental Unit Act (Public Chapter 972, effective May 17, 2018) set a baseline framework for local STR regulation, including grandfathering provisions for existing rentals, on top of which Gatlinburg and Sevier County have layered their own permit programs.
On January 9, 2018, Asheville City Council voted 6-1 to end whole-unit short-term vacation rentals as a use by right in commercial and mixed-use districts, leaving the Resort district as the only district where they are allowed by right. Outside it, owners would need conditional zoning approval.
City council adopted the 20% per-ward cap on non-owner-occupied short-term vacation rentals in the Downtown and Victorian Historic Districts, along with the grandfathering cutoff of September 28, 2017 for existing applications.
Asheville City Council adopted updates to its homestay ordinance in November 2015, reducing the maximum number of rentable bedrooms from three to two and removing percentage-of-home-use restrictions.
The city's original short-term rental ordinance took effect in February 2015, legalizing hosted and limited un-hosted short-term rentals for permanent residents where previously all such rentals were prohibited.
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