Is Eagle County Too Complex for a Single Approach to STR Regulations?

3/26/2025

Eagle County, Colorado, has been working on short-term rental regulations since 2022. The problem is the county’s complexity. Most of the short-term rentals in the county — 87% — are in Beaver Creek, and the resort closely monitors those units. Many of the rest are monitored by homeowners associations. But the county’s staff continues to work on possible regulations, and the Eagle County Board of Commissioners recently got a look at three possible options for regulations. Those options include continuing with a current draft of an ordinance that requires registration of all short-term rentals in unincorporated Eagle County. Another option is trying to draft an ordinance that would exclude already-registered units and only register units outside of Beaver Creek, Bachelor Gulch, or Arrowhead. A third option would be collecting data from existing sources to monitor impacts over time of short-term rentals, commit to some level of staffing to monitor and analyze that data, then, maybe, reconsider one of the other two options.

Vail Daily News (CO) (03/24/25) Scott Miller