Plano, TX Short-Term Rentals: Extended Home Share (2026)

Plano Zoning Ordinance Article 8 defines Live-in Management as arrangements where "the operator identified on the short-term rental registration stays in the dwelling overnight whenever guests are present at the Short-term Rental," and the property owner may serve as that operator. A Live-in Management STR is a Short-term Rental with that arrangement plus one or more rooms available to overnight guests, where a "room" can include a kitchen, bathroom, or hallway functioning as one sleeping unit. Under Sec. 2300, every Short-term Rental in the city, Live-in Management or not, must first register under the Code of Ordinances (Ch.

6, Art. XXIV) and comply with the adopted Property Maintenance Code. The section's general rule bars Short-term Rentals from renting for fewer than two consecutive nights, but that floor does not apply to Live-in Management STRs, letting a resident host rent a single room for a single night. Zoning also singles out Live-in Management STR as the only Short-term Rental use permitted in a dwelling unit within a Heritage Resource Overlay District ("H" or "HD"), districts where ordinary STRs are otherwise constrained. A Backyard Cottage and the main dwelling on the same lot count as one residence and cannot be split into two separate STR uses, and any STR operating before May 15, 2023 keeps nonconforming status under Article 7 rather than being forced to conform to these newer use rules immediately.