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A judge’s ruling issued Friday invalidated an emergency ordinance the Aspen City Council adopted Dec. 8 that implemented an immediate but temporary ban on residential building activity and new short-term vacation permits within city limits.
Aspen has a variety of options to consider as it attempts to regulate short-term or vacation rentals, but a concrete policy is still a ways off.
Property owners hoping to rent out their Aspen residences for terms of fewer than 30 days in 2022 might want to make sure they’ve got their paperwork in order. And probably now.
It will take an act of Aspen City Council to slow down the short-term rentals business, which is what it plans to start working on come Dec. 7. They have discussed capping the number of STR licenses for 2022 and banning new ones.