Duluth, MN Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Parking Rules (2026)

3 of Duluth's Unified Development Chapter fixes minimum off-street parking for licensed vacation dwelling units on a sliding scale tied to bedroom count, and the scale itself depends on when the unit was first licensed. Units licensed on or before May 15, 2016 must provide one off-street space for a one- or two-bedroom unit, two spaces for a three- or four-bedroom unit, and three spaces for anything with five or more bedrooms. Units licensed after May 15, 2016 face a steeper requirement: one space for one or two bedrooms, two spaces for a three-bedroom unit, and, for four or more bedrooms, a number of spaces equal to the bedroom count minus one, so a five-bedroom rental needs four spaces and a six-bedroom rental needs five.

3(c) ends that exemption the moment any ownership interest in the property transfers, after which the current, stricter table applies. The parking minimums do not apply at all to vacation dwelling units located within the city's Form Districts (F1 through F9), which are exempted under subsection (d) and governed by the form-based code's own parking standards instead.