No Bell County rule requires an STR to be the owner's primary residence, and the county cannot make one. Killeen allows non-owner-occupied (investor) STRs and imposes no primary-residence requirement. Temple effectively bars under-30-day rentals in residential zones regardless of who owns them.
A Texas county cannot restrict rentals to owner-occupants, so Bell County has no primary-residence rule. Killeen's STR program permits investor-owned, non-owner-occupied rentals; it requires registration, inspection, and insurance but does not require the operator to live on-site or in the home. Temple does not offer a primary-residence carve-out because its code generally prohibits rentals of 30 days or less in residential districts, whether or not the owner lives there. In unincorporated Bell County there is no primary-residence restriction at all. Deed restrictions or HOA covenants may separately limit rentals in specific subdivisions, so owners should check private restrictions.
No primary-residence rule exists to violate at the county or Killeen level; private HOA/deed restrictions are enforced civilly, not by the county.
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Bell County has no zoning and does not regulate artificial turf. On unincorporated land it is unrestricted. Cities may limit synthetic turf in front yards th...
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