Spotsylvania County, VA Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Parking Rules (2026)

Rather than licensing short-term rentals as a distinct use, Spotsylvania County's zoning ordinance folds short-stay home lodging into its bed and breakfast definitions in Sec. 4. Bed and breakfast I covers a stand-alone, owner-occupied dwelling renting up to five guest rooms, with private or shared baths, for stays of no more than 30 days, and with at least one meal offered to lodging patrons but not the general public. Bed and breakfast II covers larger operations of more than five up to twenty guest rooms across the dwelling and other on-site accessory buildings, still owner-occupied and still capped at 30-day stays.

Both classifications are listed as permitted or special uses across several agricultural, rural and residential district tables in article 6, with bed and breakfast II typically needing special-use approval in more districts because of its larger scale. Whichever classification applies, Sec. 3's off-street parking table sets the requirement at one space per guest room, meaning the operator must provide one parking space for every guest room being rented, added on top of the two on-site spaces already required for the single-family home itself under the table's separate dwelling entry.

Those spaces are subject to the general parking standards in Sec. 2, including the requirement that all parking be on the same lot as the use, that surfaces be dustless (paved or graveled with curb stops) except for single-family dwellings, and that any reconfiguration of striped spaces be certified by an engineer or surveyor. A homeowner converting bedrooms into a five-room bed and breakfast without adding the corresponding on-site parking would fall out of compliance with the county's minimum parking table.