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

Every short-term rental home in York County needs a special use permit under Sec. 24.1-115, and Sec. 24.1-409(c) makes off-street parking a baseline condition of that permit: any parking demand the rental creates has to be handled off the street, on a space that is suitably located and surfaced, not on the shoulder or in front of neighboring homes. The application itself has teeth behind that requirement. Sec. 24.1-409(j)(1) requires the narrative description submitted with the special use permit application to specifically address provisions for accommodating off-street parking alongside the maximum occupancy and length-of-stay details.

Sec. 24.1-409(k) then directs the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors to look past the individual driveway and evaluate the adequacy and capacity of the adjacent roadway network as a whole, including pavement widths, traffic volumes, and street ownership and maintenance arrangements, before deciding whether the roads leading to the property can absorb the proposed rental without adversely affecting neighboring properties. That roadway review is separate from, and in addition to, the parking standards the county applies to short-term rental-hosted weddings and receptions under Sec.

24.1-409(l)(7), which sets a minimum of one parking space per two guests for those supplementary events. Because the parking condition is written into the special use permit rather than a fixed numeric ratio in the ordinance, the exact number of required spaces is set case by case as part of permit approval and becomes binding once the board grants it.