New Britain, CT Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Parking Rules (2026)

New Britain layers its short-term rental parking rule directly on top of the standard off-street parking table in Section 240 of the Zoning Ordinance. Section 270-40-40.300.80 requires one additional parking space for every room that is used for short-term rental, in addition to the required parking for other uses on the property, so a homeowner cannot satisfy the short-term rental requirement by pointing to spaces already counted toward the house's baseline residential parking. That additive structure lines up with the general rule in § 280-10-10.30, which bars counting the parking spaces required for one building or use toward the required parking for a second building or use on the same lot.

In practice, an operator renting out three bedrooms as short-term rental space needs three dedicated spaces on top of whatever off-street parking the dwelling itself already requires, and the Zoning Enforcement Officer checks that count when reviewing the annual zoning permit application required under § 270-40-40.300.10.10. A property that cannot physically fit the added spaces has no ordinance-based exception carved out for short-term rentals specifically; the Zoning Board of Appeals variance powers for accessory parking under §§ 270-50-40.60 through 270-50-40.80 apply to accessory parking areas generally and require the property owner to petition the Board and show the hardship tests in § 270-50-30, not a shortcut built into the short-term rental article itself.