Updated: 05/13/2024
Nightly / Short Term Rental Licensing Process
Anyone with the intent to offer lodging for a fee for periods less than 30 days must obtain:
- A Nightly Rental License from Park City (if allowed by zoning); and
- A State Sales Tax ID number from the Utah State Tax Commission.
Additionally, you must take the following steps to comply with section 4-2-1 & 4-5-3 of Park City’s Municipal Code:
- Ensure your nightly rental is allowed by consulting Park City’s GIS Zoning Map and/or Land Management Code.
- Pass a property inspection by the Building Department; and
- Submit a Nightly Rental License application with your passed inspection report to business@parkcity.org or to Finance in City Hall (445 Marsac Avenue, Park City, UT 84060).
- If you have questions regarding your property’s zoning, please contact planning@parkcity.org or 435-615-5060.
- To schedule an inspection, please contact the Building Department at blinspections@parkcity.org or 435-615-5105.
- For more information regarding obtaining a Utah State Sales Tax ID, visit www.tax.utah.gov or 801-297-2200.
- Utah State Business & Tax Registration Form by Mail
- Utah State Business & Tax Online Registration
If conducting business under an assumed name (D.B.A. “doing business as”), register the business name with the Utah Department of Commerce. Information on how to do this can be found in the Business Licenses section under State Requirements.
Note the city has a map of locations where vacation rentals are permitted and where they are not. A property inspection and business license are required. This protects both the owners and vacation renters. For example, you can’t call a bunkroom with no windows a bedroom.
It is my opinion that there is a place for nightly rentals and they work for tourists and our community. However, they should be regulated and taxed (like hotels) and they should be restricted to those neighborhoods where they make sense. Nightly rentals do not belong in residential neighborhoods.
2 Comments
i am a resident of nordic village-i have been since 1986-we had a nice neighborhood-a quiet culdesac -and now many homes are bought and built just to rent-we have had the same issues as your article about jeremy ranch-my husband is president of the hoa and we have been trying to change the CC&R’s-we are now one vote short and still trying-we are trying to block the construction of another 9 bedroom home on nansen ct-hired a lawyer-this same person built the same kind of home next to us and next to the lot he is trying to buy-he advertises rentals that will house 40 people! would know of anything we can do besides changing the CC&R’S (an admendment?) has the CDC come in with rulings on vrbo’s, airbnb’s because of this pandemic-any info you could ad would be much appreciated
To my knowledge, the CDC has not come up with guidelines about hotels or nightly rentals. I can see how a home that “sleeps 40” would be very disruptive to a neighborhood. In our Jeremy Ranch neighborhood, we changed the CCRs, added penalties, and the offender is still renting her house on VRBO. I am hoping that her rentals will be way down with the COVID-19 concerns and she will sell her home.