Construction / Zoning / Permits

[Holly Barrett]

Hello All - I'm in a pickle.

Have any of you worked a primary residence construction with the intent of also having a short term rental on the premises?

Here's what I'm running into.

Land is zoned Residential Agricultural.

County allows for a detached 'guest quarters', but it's defined as **not to be used for any sort of income**

However, they don't fact check that or anything, it's written in there, but it's not in their wheelhouse to verify how you use that going forward.

Then you go to the Short Term Rental permitting side, they basically say "you need to just rent a room out in your house" - what? Even though, there isn't anything in their ordinance that prohibits renting out another structure on the property with the propert elements.

So here I am trying to get clarification so we can move forward on architectural drawings and I really can't get a straight answer from these guys.

People do long term rentals ALL the time in basement garages and mother in law suites, etc, but apparently that's not really legal..?

Anyone have experience navigating these murky waters?

[Ken Boone]

So if they have it defined as **not to be used for any sort of income**  I'm not doing it unless I have another primary use for this attachment.  To me its not worth the risk of you building it, start doing it just because "they don't fact check", and then a neighbor finds out and doesn't like it and then goes to the county and the next thing you know you are in some kind of legal battle.  

Unless you get a variance from the county/city whatever stating you can do this, I wouldn't do it with the current language as described.