A licensed Des Plaines rental zoned as a single-family dwelling may not operate as a hotel, motel, boarding house, rooming house, or transient lodging, may not be converted to multi-family use, and the entire unit (not individual rooms) must be rented.
Des Plaines does not set a numeric guest cap specific to short-term rentals, but it imposes use and occupancy restrictions through the rental-license affidavit that every applicant must sign. The required affidavit (Attachment 1 to the city's August 10, 2023 CED memorandum) states that a property zoned and categorized as a Single-Family Dwelling 'shall not include a hotel, motel, boarding house, rooming house, dormitory, nursing home, institution, or transient lodging,' that the owner is 'not permitted to rent rooms or portions of the house,' and that the owner is 'not permitted to convert or utilize this property as a Multi-Family Dwelling.' Because individual-room rental is prohibited, an STR host must rent the entire dwelling unit to a single rental party. General occupancy and habitability standards for any dwelling continue to apply through the City's property-maintenance and housing code enforced by the Housing and Code Enforcement Division. No Des Plaines ordinance directly addresses a maximum number of overnight guests for a short-term rental.
Using a single-family rental as transient lodging, renting individual rooms, or converting the unit to multi-family use violates the sworn affidavit and the rental code and may result in additional legal action and immediate suspension or revocation of the rental property license, plus Administrative Hearing fines.
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