The City of Pueblo requires a short-term rental license issued through the Sales Tax Office with zoning verification, but the municipal code does not publish a numeric per-night guest cap; occupancy is governed by zoning, building-code life-safety standards, and Colorado's state occupancy floor.
Pueblo regulates short-term rentals primarily as a licensing and tax matter rather than through a published nightly guest cap. Hosts must obtain a short-term rental license through the City Sales Tax Office, and the Department of Planning and Community Development verifies that the property sits in a zone district where lodging-style use is permitted (certain residential, agricultural, and business districts). The Pueblo Municipal Code as currently published does not list a per-bedroom or per-guest maximum specific to short-term rentals; instead, practical occupancy is shaped by three things: (1) the dwelling's legal bedroom count and life-safety capacity under the building code adopted citywide; (2) Pueblo's underlying zoning rules in Title XVII, which constrain density and use by district; and (3) Colorado HB24-1007, which prohibits any local government from limiting residential occupancy based on familial relationship. City sales tax (3.7%) and city lodging tax (4.3%) apply to stays under 30 days. Because the city's planning and zoning commission has been developing a more detailed short-term rental code, hosts should confirm current standards directly with the Department of Planning and Community Development at (719) 553-2489 before listing.
Operating a short-term rental without a license, exceeding building-code habitable occupancy, or operating in a zone district where the use is not permitted can result in license denial, code-enforcement citations, back taxes, and abatement orders.
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