New Orleans, LA Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Parking Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Required document
- site plan showing required parking
- Governing section
- City Code § 26-617(c)(4)
- Missing document result
- automatic denial (§ 26-617(d))
- Numeric parking count
- set by CZO, not Chapter 26
Summary
New Orleans doesn't set its own numeric parking-space count for short-term rentals; instead, City Code § 26-617(c)(4) requires every owner-permit application to include a site plan showing the location of any parking required for the property, tying the local paperwork duty to whatever the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance separately requires.
(c)The following additional documentation shall be submitted to the department, along with the application, prior to processing:...(4)A site plan indicating the location of any required parking.(5)A noise abatement plan that provides, at a minimum, a noise monitoring device...(d)The department shall deny any short-term rental application that does not contain all of the information listed in section 26-617(b) and (c).
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 116 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
Chapter 26's short-term rental article doesn't independently set a minimum number of off-street parking spaces; that dimensional standard sits in the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, a separate publication administered by the City Planning Commission. § 26-617(d) is unambiguous about the consequence of leaving any of these out: 'the department shall deny any short-term rental application that does not contain all of the information listed in section 26-617(b) and (c),' so an incomplete or missing parking site plan is an automatic denial ground, not a discretionary one.
Because the underlying parking requirement itself is a zoning matter, an applicant needs to confirm the CZO's off-street parking standard for the property's district before the site plan can be drawn accurately; the Chapter 26 duty is limited to documenting whatever that district-specific requirement turns out to be.
Violations & Fines
Submitting a short-term rental owner-permit application without a site plan showing any required parking triggers automatic denial under § 26-617(d): the department isn't given discretion to accept an incomplete application. There's no separate numeric parking fine in Chapter 26; the underlying parking standard and any zoning-based enforcement for insufficient parking run through the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance rather than the STR article.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does New Orleans require a set number of parking spaces for a short-term rental?
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Sources & Official References
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