Bossier City, LA Accessory Structures: ADU Rental Restrictions (2026)

Section 5.6.2.B of the Unified Development Code states the Accessory Dwelling Unit "shall be utilized strictly as a guest house for visitors and shall not be utilized for short or long term rental." The Code enforces that limit with two occupancy caps rather than a blanket ban on anyone staying there: no single stay may run longer than 30 consecutive days, and the cumulative time the ADU is occupied in any rolling one-year period cannot exceed 50 percent, or roughly six months. Those caps apply on top of the underlying owner-occupancy condition in Section 5.6.2, which ties ADU approval to a primary residence occupied by the owner, and the Conditional Use approval process of Section 3.3.2 that the Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) must grant before the unit is built.

Listing the ADU on a nightly rental platform, leasing it under a 12-month lease, or otherwise treating it as an income-producing rental unit falls outside the guest-house use the ordinance authorizes and puts the underlying Conditional Use permit at risk of revocation. Because the restriction is written into the same Conditional Use approval, the MPC's Executive Director can treat a rental listing as evidence the approved use has changed and pursue enforcement under UDC Article 17.