Woodbury sets no annual night cap for short-term rentals because STRs are prohibited rather than rate-limited. The operative threshold is the 30-day floor: a rental shorter than 30 days that is not the renter's permanent residence is not allowed at all, so there is no allotment of permitted nights to count.
Some cities limit STRs to a number of nights per year (for example, 90 unhosted nights). Woodbury uses a different mechanism: instead of capping how many nights a host may rent, it prohibits the short-stay rental category outright. The city states that a rental 'with a term shorter than 30 days that is not the renter's permanent residence is prohibited' and that 'short-term rentals do not conform to Woodbury City Code.' Functionally, the only relevant number is the 30-day boundary, which also aligns with the tax line: Minnesota's local lodging tax (Minn. Stat. 469.190) and the 6.875% state sales tax on lodging both exempt rentals of 30 days or more. A booking of 30 consecutive days or longer is treated as a conventional tenancy (and, if the unit is let for rent, requires a rental license), while anything shorter to a non-resident is not permitted. There is therefore no per-year night budget, no shoulder-season exception, and no hosted-night bonus — the rule is binary: 30-day-plus tenancy (licensable) versus prohibited transient rental.
Because there is no permitted-night allotment, any sub-30-day non-primary rental — for one night or many — is a prohibited, non-conforming use enforceable through code enforcement. Stacking back-to-back short stays to approximate continuous rental does not convert prohibited transient use into a permitted tenancy.
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