The unincorporated county sets no short-term-rental occupancy cap—it has no STR zoning at all. Occupancy is governed by the adopted building/property-maintenance codes. In the City of Spartanburg, STRs operate as hotel/motel uses subject to code occupancy limits.
Spartanburg County's Planning Department has no zoning rules for short-term rentals and no traditional parcel zoning, so it imposes no per-guest occupancy limit specific to STRs. Practical occupancy is instead constrained by the International Building/Residential Code and property-maintenance standards the county has adopted (life-safety, egress, and sanitation). Inside the City of Spartanburg, where STRs are permitted only in commercial, downtown, and mixed-use districts, they are reviewed like hotel/motel uses and must meet the certificate-of-occupancy and building-code limits for that use. Confirm allowable occupancy with the applicable building department.
Exceeding building-code occupancy or life-safety limits can prompt code-enforcement action; in the city, it can also jeopardize the certificate of occupancy and business license.
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