Washington, DC Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Parking Rules (2026)

02(f) addresses a specific overlap between the short-term rental law and DC's residential parking permit rules. 02(f) provides that, for purposes of that visitor permit rule, a transient guest of a vacation rental is not considered a guest of a resident in the ANC area where the permit applies. 01(6), the District treats the paying transient guest as functioning more like a hotel guest than a houseguest, and denies that guest the residential visitor-permit benefit that would otherwise apply to a homeowner's actual visitors. 02.

A host advertising a vacation rental should not represent to guests that they can obtain or use an ANC visitor parking permit for their stay, since the Department treats that guest category as excluded from the permit by operation of this section.