A Chattanooga STVR is capped at five bedrooms, and any STVR in the R-1 or R-2 residential zones may contain no more than five (5) bedrooms. Occupancy is tied to bedroom count, and the use cannot function as a hotel, rooming house, bed-and-breakfast, or boarding house.
The zoning definition limits every short-term vacation rental to no more than five bedrooms. In the R-1 and R-2 single- and two-family residential zones, the code repeats the five-bedroom ceiling and expressly excludes hotels, rooming houses, bed-and-breakfasts, and boarding houses. Guest capacity is driven by the permitted bedroom count rather than a flat headcount. In multi-family buildings, STVR saturation is limited so that only about 25% of the dwelling units in a complex may operate as short-term rentals (roughly one unit in a quadplex).
Exceeding the five-bedroom cap or the multi-family saturation limit can void the STVR certificate and draw zoning enforcement and denial of renewal.
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