Plano, TX Short-Term Rentals: Night Caps (2026)

Article 15's use-specific regulations set the citywide framework for short-term rentals (STRs), and Sec. 15.2300.7 is the one place the code ties STR density to an annual-nights condition: Multifamily Residence properties. Where a property has management on-site (not necessarily within individual units), up to one unit or 5% of the dwelling units, whichever is greater, can operate as an STR without further permitting, and that by-right allowance carries no automatic limit on nights rented per year.

Above that 5%-or-one-unit threshold, the property owner must obtain a specific use permit under Sec. 6.100 before converting more units. In granting the SUP, the city can impose "additional development standards," and the ordinance lists five categories the conditions can cover: locations of other STRs on the property, maximum number of occupants, minimum nights per rental, maximum number of rental nights per year, and parking or other site-design standards. So an annual night cap on a Plano multifamily STR exists only if and when a granted SUP writes one in, the base zoning text sets no flat citywide number.

Two rules apply regardless of the SUP: every STR, in any dwelling type, must register under the Code of Ordinances, and citywide no STR may rent for less than two consecutive nights, a floor that does not apply to Live-in Management STRs, where the registered operator stays overnight in the unit whenever guests are present (Sec. 15.2300; ZC2024-008, Ord. No. 2024-4-13, which repealed the city's earlier 2023 interim STR ban).