Ridgefield, CT Short-Term Rentals: Occupancy Limits (2026)
Key Facts
- Guest cap
- 10 people per Lodging Party, §2.2
- Simultaneous parties
- Only one Lodging Party at a time
- Adopted
- Amendment A-26-1, effective June 23, 2026
- Applies to
- Both Short-Term Rentals and Bed & Breakfasts
Summary
Ridgefield's Zoning Regulations define a Lodging Party as everyone in a single reservation at a Short-Term Rental or Bed & Breakfast, and Section 2.2 caps that party at ten people regardless of whether the guests are related, on top of separate time-and-frequency limits on the rental itself.
Lodging Party - One or more person(s) who together constitute a single reservation or booking for transient lodging accommodations, regardless of whether such persons are related. At a Bed & Breakfast or Short-Term Rental, a single Lodging Party may never exceed ten (10) people.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: the cited page had not changed since it was quoted.
Full Breakdown
2, Defined Terms, builds the town's short-term-rental rules around three linked definitions. Short-Term Rental covers an entire residential property, an entire Accessory Dwelling Unit, or one room within a Single-Family Dwelling offered as accommodation to only one Lodging Party at a time, with the owner allowed but not required to be onsite. Lodging Party is defined as one or more persons who together constitute a single reservation or booking for transient lodging accommodations, regardless of whether such persons are related, and the same subsection sets the hard cap: at a Bed & Breakfast or Short-Term Rental, a single Lodging Party may never exceed ten people.
11. Because a Short-Term Rental can only host one Lodging Party at a time, the ten-person cap functions as the property's total overnight-occupancy ceiling, not a per-room limit; a host cannot book two unrelated groups simultaneously to get around it. 1.
Violations & Fines
Hosting more than one Lodging Party at a time, or a Lodging Party exceeding ten people, is a violation of the Short-Term Rental definition itself, not just a permit condition. The ZEO can issue a violation notice under § 9.4.C ordering the condition corrected within ten days, and a host who keeps operating over the cap faces the fines and injunctive remedies under Conn. Gen. Stat. Chapter 124 via § 9.4.D, assessed per day the violation continues.
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