Short-term rental records · Park City, Utah
Asked the way people ask it — “can you Airbnb in Park City?” — the records answer address by address. Park City's official zoning layer records a nightly-rental status on every zoning polygon in the city, and the Municipal Code requires a Nightly Rental License before a unit is offered for rent.
This page summarizes what those records say, district by district — each statement cited to its source and dated. The check below reads the records for a specific address, free.
What the Park City records say
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Park City's official zoning layer records a nightly-rental status on each zoning polygon. The groups below cover the layer's 189 polygons by that status text, quoted verbatim — the same data the address check above reads.
2 of 189 polygons
1 of 189 polygons
103 of 189 polygons
1 of 189 polygons
70 of 189 polygons
12 of 189 polygons
* The layer records the HRL, RD, RM districts under more than one status — the status is recorded per polygon, not per district. A district appearing in two groups means different areas of it carry different recorded statuses; the address check reads the polygon at the specific address.
Per-polygon nightly-rental status field · Park City Zoning (nightly-rental status per polygon) · as of 2026-07-10
Layer last edited 2025-06-13 per its published editing metadata · retrieved 2026-07-10
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Park City Municipal Code §4-5-3 provides that all nightly rental units require Building Department inspection and a license before being offered for rent, that the licensee shall be the owner, and that the unit must be in a zone permitting nightly rentals.
§4-5-3 · Park City Municipal Code §4-5-3, Regulation of Nightly Rentals · as of 2026-07-06
Park City Land Management Code §15-4-4 provides that nightly rentals and other seasonal rentals are prohibited in Secondary Living Quarters; §15-4-7 provides that nightly rentals are prohibited in the Accessory Apartment; and §15-4-7.1 provides that neither the single-family dwelling nor an Internal Accessory Dwelling Unit may be rented for periods under 30 days.
§§15-4-4, 15-4-7, 15-4-7.1 · Park City Land Management Code, Chapter 15-4 Supplemental Regulations · as of 2026-07-06
Park City's LMC code-amendments record lists subdivision-specific nightly-rental ordinances layered over the zoning map: Ordinance 2021-16 (nightly rentals prohibited in Fairway Meadows Subdivision), Ordinance 2021-52 (prohibited in Hidden Oaks Phases 2 and 3), Ordinance 2023-16 (prohibited in Chatham Crossing and West Ridge Subdivision), Ordinance 2021-06 (a Conditional Use in the Lower Rossi Hill Sub-Neighborhood), and Ordinance 2020-37 (a cap of 12 nightly rentals in the Western HRL District).
Ords. 2020-37, 2021-06, 2021-16, 2021-52, 2023-16 · Park City Planning — LMC Updates / Code Amendments · as of 2026-07-06
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Park City's LMC code-amendments record lists Ordinance 2020-37 (7/30/2020), a cap of 12 nightly rentals in the Western HRL District under a conditional-use regime, and Ordinance 2021-06 (2/4/2021), making nightly rentals a Conditional Use in the Lower Rossi Hill Sub-Neighborhood. Current utilization of the 12 conditional-use slots is not published in the sources on record.
Ords. 2020-37, 2021-06 · Park City Planning — LMC Updates / Code Amendments · as of 2026-07-06
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License required before a unit may be offered for nightly rental in Park City. Per Municipal Code §4-5-3, all nightly rental units must be inspected by the Building Department and issued a license before being offered for rent; the licensee shall be the owner; and the unit must be located within a zone and subzone designated as allowing rentals for the license period.
§4-5-3; §4-2-1 · Park City Municipal Code §4-5-3 (MunicipalCodeOnline print page) · as of 2026-07-09
Legal basis
Park City Municipal Code §4-5-3, Regulation of Nightly Rentals (enacted Ord. 13-19, 6/6/2013; repealed & reenacted Ord. 2017-51, 10/5/2017; amended Ord. 2019-17, 4/18/2019 and Ord. 2022-23, 7/14/2022). Cross-reference §4-2-1 (unlawful to operate without a business license).
§4-5-3; §4-2-1 · Park City Municipal Code §4-5-3 (MunicipalCodeOnline print page) · as of 2026-07-09
Licensee
The licensee shall be the owner (not the manager). The local representative is deemed the responsible party.
§4-5-3(A) · Park City Municipal Code §4-5-3 (MunicipalCodeOnline print page) · as of 2026-07-09
Zoning precondition
The unit must be located within a zone and subzone designated as allowing rentals for the period for which the license is applied.
§4-5-3(D)(1) · Park City Municipal Code §4-5-3 (MunicipalCodeOnline print page) · as of 2026-07-09
Fee on record
$28.74 per bedroom plus $149.00 administrative fee
Fee-schedule figure pending verification against the jurisdiction's current adopted fee schedule.
Nightly Rental License Application (city form) · Park City Nightly Rental License Application, surfaced via search index of parkcity.gov documents · as of 2026-07-06
Application route
Building Department inspection first; then application plus passed inspection report submitted to business@parkcity.org or Finance at City Hall, 445 Marsac Ave.
Nightly Rental License Inspections (doc 64874); Finance FAQs · Park City Finance FAQs; Park City 'Nightly Rental License Inspections' document · as of 2026-07-06
Stated processing time
5–10 business days
Finance FAQs · Park City Finance FAQs · as of 2026-07-06
Renewal
All business licenses expire September 30; renewal due October 1. Licenses purchased on or after July 1 are prorated.
Finance FAQs · Park City Finance FAQs · as of 2026-07-06
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Subdivision-specific nightly-rental ordinances (Ords. 2021-16 Fairway Meadows, 2021-52 Hidden Oaks Phases 2-3, 2023-16 Chatham Crossing + West Ridge, 2021-06 Lower Rossi Hill CUP) are layered over the zoning map. The city GIS layer reflects some of these as per-polygon 'Prohibited' status (verified 2026-07-07: polygons over Fairway Meadows and part of Hidden Oaks resolve 'Nightly Rental: Prohibited'), but the ordinance-to-polygon correspondence and phase boundaries (e.g. Hidden Oaks Phase 1 vs Phases 2-3) are not machine-verifiable from the layer. The reported Meadows Estates Phases 1A/1B prohibition is UNVERIFIED (secondary source only; candidate Ord. 2020-38 not retrievable).
PARK-CITY-STR-ORDINANCE.md §3.4 · Park City Planning — LMC Updates / Code Amendments · as of 2026-07-06
Private HOA/CC&R nightly-rental restrictions exist on top of city zoning and are not captured in the city layer (out of records scope — PARK-CITY-STR-ORDINANCE.md §9 item 3).
This rule table covers Park City Municipal (GEOID 4958070) only. Unincorporated Summit County (Snyderville Basin, Canyons Village, etc.) has a separate regime with no zone that expressly permits STRs while the county licenses them in practice — a defensible zone-level determination cannot be derived there (PARK-CITY-STR-ORDINANCE.md §3.5, attorney queue item 11a).
Determined from records as of 2026-07-07. This page describes what municipal records and ordinances say as of the dates shown — it is not legal advice, not a legal opinion, and not a permit. Questions about a specific situation are a matter for a licensed land-use attorney in the property's jurisdiction.