Granville County, NC Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Parking Rules (2026)

Section 32-206 regulates bed and breakfast establishments and country inns, the county's licensed short-term lodging use, and subsection (5) sets the parking standard. Parking is permitted only in the rear of the establishment as a default; the land development administrator can approve side-yard parking instead if conditions make rear parking impractical. The numeric requirement layers guest-room parking onto a flat add-on: one parking space per guest room, plus three additional spaces beyond that count, and the administrator can also require handicapped parking and a loading zone depending on the site.

The parking rule sits inside a broader section that requires the establishment to blend into the surrounding area, historically and architecturally suited new construction and renovations, proof of adequate sewage disposal from either an allotted authority or the county health department before any application, site plan approval of amenities such as recreational facilities and accessory structures, a minimum three-acre lot for new establishments (existing lots of record on smaller acreage may still apply, but cannot later subdivide below that acreage once permitted), industrial-boundary screening buffers where no natural screen exists, and a signage cap of five square feet of total sign area in wood or other durable nonplastic material.

Because Granville County's code was adopted in 1999 and has not been rewritten to address short-term rentals as their own use category, an owner renting a residence through a booking platform in the unincorporated county is not automatically bound by Section 32-206's parking math unless the property is licensed and operating as a bed and breakfast or country inn use.