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

Section 15.02.080.D.8 states the default rule plainly: "Off-street parking. Unless specified as a condition of approval on the short-term rental license, no additional parking is required for short-term rentals." That means a host is not automatically required to add driveway or lot parking simply because the dwelling is licensed as a short-term rental; the baseline is whatever off-street parking the property already has for the underlying dwelling. The city retains the ability to impose a parking condition on an individual license where circumstances warrant it, most likely for rentals located in the R-RU or R-SF districts that require conditional use approval under section D.7 when more than one short-term rental sits on the same street segment of a block, since that conditional use review under section 15.02.060.C can attach site-specific conditions, including parking.

Once a parking condition is attached to a license, section D.13 folds it into the license's standing conditions of approval alongside occupancy and noise, "to prevent adverse impacts to surrounding properties." Guests are also bound by the citywide rules on where vehicles may be parked on public streets and rights-of-way, which sit outside this short-term rental section but still apply to any vehicle associated with the rental. A parking-related notice of violation, warning, citation or fine against the property counts toward the three-incident pattern-of-nuisance threshold in section D.16 that can trigger license revocation.