Grand Junction, CO Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

Grand Junction Municipal Code § 21.04.030(d)(5)(vii) lists five grounds for suspending or revoking a short-term rental permit: failing a Subsection (d)(5) requirement, breaking a permit condition, failing to collect or remit lodging tax, submitting materially false information, and, the ground that captures neighborhood pressure, 'excessive and substantial complaints by neighbors or affected persons that were not adequately and timely addressed by the owner or designated responsible party.' Because a repeat pattern usually shows up as unresolved noise, parking, or occupancy complaints, this last ground functions as the City's strikes provision: it sets no numeric strike count, but the Director can act once a pattern of unaddressed complaints accumulates.

Every STR permit already requires a designated local responsible party available at a permanent address within twenty miles who must respond to complaints, so an owner who ignores that duty is the one exposed to this ground. Before pulling a permit, the Director must give the owner written notice and ten days to respond; the Director then has ten more days from the response date to issue a decision to revoke or suspend. Any aggrieved person, meaning the owner, a neighbor, or another affected party, may appeal the issuance, denial, suspension, or revocation of an STR permit to the Zoning Board of Appeals within ten days of the decision.

A revoked owner loses the right to operate that unit as a primary or secondary short-term rental until a new permit is obtained under the same annual-renewal, owner-only standards.