Medina, OH Short-Term Rentals: Noise Rules (2026)

031, which allows noise up to certain thresholds depending on time of day and distance, this short term rental rule is an outright activity ban: it does not turn on decibel level, time of night, or how far sound carries, but forbids the event itself. The provision was adopted alongside the overnight occupancy cap of two persons per bedroom plus two, and the location restriction confining short term rentals to within 4,000 feet of Medina's Uptown Park, all under Ordinance 187-24, passed November 25, 2024.

Because the rule lives in the Zoning Code rather than the general offenses code, a short term rental host who hosts a prohibited gathering is operating outside the permitted zoning use for that property, exposing the property to zoning enforcement in addition to whatever noise complaint the event generates under the city's separate sound-amplifying-device ordinance. The rule reads as a direct response to complaints common to short term rental hosting: large one-off gatherings that draw traffic, parking and noise well beyond ordinary household use, and it applies regardless of whether the event itself stays within any decibel or curfew threshold.