Queen Creek, AZ Short-Term Rentals: Occupancy Limits (2026)

Queen Creek's short-term rental program does not set out a published numeric occupancy limit (for example, two guests per bedroom). That reflects A.R.S. § 9-500.39, which bars Arizona cities and towns from restricting or regulating short-term rentals based on their classification, use or occupancy except in the narrow ways the statute permits. What the Town does enforce are the permitted health-and-safety and nuisance categories the statute allows, applied the same way they apply to other residential property. Most significantly, Queen Creek expressly prohibits using a short-term rental to hold a special event that would require a license under a town ordinance or state law or rule, and prohibits operating a retail business, restaurant, event center or banquet hall at the property. Those prohibitions effectively curb the large-gathering, party-house uses that occupancy caps are often meant to address. Where occupancy intersects with building and fire codes — the maximum number of occupants a dwelling can safely house — those generally applicable codes still apply, because the statute lets municipalities enforce fire and building codes and health and sanitation rules whose primary purpose is protecting public health and safety.