Spalding County, GA Short-Term Rentals: Occupancy Limits (2026)

The agriculture homestay category exists inside Spalding County's Agricultural Tourism Definitions, Section 206, which supports the Agriculture-Tourism (A-T) zoning district created for farm-based visitor uses. Section 206(1) defines an agriculture homestay as a single-family detached dwelling that has eight or fewer guestrooms and is restricted to a maximum of sixteen overnight adult guests, must be located on and be part of a working farm that produces agriculture products, and must otherwise meet the ordinance's separate definition of a bed and breakfast, while being allowed to serve meals or light snacks to registered guests at any time, a broader allowance than a standard bed and breakfast has.

This occupancy cap is specific to the agriculture homestay use and the A-T district; it is the only overnight-guest occupancy number the zoning code's definitions attach to a short-term lodging use. The ordinance separately defines a generic AirBnB as a rental of a residence by the property owner to non-related individuals for compensation for no longer than thirty consecutive days, but that definition, in Section 202, does not carry its own numeric guest cap; only the narrower agriculture homestay use in Section 206 does. A property operating a farm-based homestay outside those eight-guestroom and sixteen-guest limits, or without qualifying as part of a working farm, would not meet the definition and could not lawfully operate under this classification.