Stamford, CT Short-Term Rentals: Occupancy Limits (2026)

Stamford's Zoning Regulations define a Short-Term Rental as offering one or more rooms on a Short-Term Rental Property for a Short-Term Rental Transaction, and the standards set both a people limit and a housing-type limit. No more than two short-term renters may be on the premises at any time, and they must be accommodated within the Principal Dwelling without separate housekeeping facilities, meaning a renter cannot occupy a self-contained unit with its own kitchen and bath. Accessory Dwelling Units are separately barred from being used for Short-Term Rentals altogether.

The occupancy rule interacts with a district-based restriction: in the RA-3, RA-2, RA-1, R-20, R-10, R-7½ and R-6 districts, Stamford's lowest-density single-family zones, no short-term rental is allowed at all unless the Short-Term Rental Operator lives in the property as a primary residence at all times guests are present. In every other residential district, short-term rentals are permitted unless a private agreement between the property owner and a tenant forbids it, and short-term rentals are prohibited outright on any non-residential property. A Short-Term Rental Property is defined to exclude hotels, lodging houses, bed and breakfast establishments, other commercial residential establishments, below-market-rate units, public housing units and homeless shelters. The provision was adopted under application 223-10, effective June 7, 2023, and remains current through the May 31, 2026 amendment cycle.