Commerce City, CO Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Parking Rules (2026)

Land Development Code section 21-5263(10) governs where short-term rental guests may park. Paragraph (a) requires that parking intended to serve a short-term rental be located on the same lot as the rental itself, rather than on a neighboring property or a shared lot elsewhere. Paragraph (b) clarifies that the city does not impose any new off-street parking requirement beyond what already exists and has been legally permitted for the dwelling unit; a short-term rental does not have to add parking spaces it never had. Where a property has no legally established on-site parking, the rule allows no more than two vehicles associated with the short-term rental to park on the street.

This caps street parking generated by a rental in neighborhoods where driveways or garages were never built out, addressing the most common neighbor complaint about short-term rentals: overflow parking crowding a residential street. The parking standard works together with the rest of section 21-5263, including the density restriction in subsection (5) limiting short-term rentals to no more than one per 500 feet in a residentially zoned district, and the good-neighbor guide requirement in municipal code section 9-3908(g), which obligates every licensee to inform guests in writing of designated parking areas and rules for the surrounding neighborhood. Community Development and the Commerce City Police Department field parking complaints tied to short-term rentals under these combined provisions.