End short-term rentals in Nashville’s residential neighborhoods.
Short-term rentals belong in commercial and mixed-use zones. They do not belong on residential streets. Metro already withholds new not-owner-occupied permits in AR2A, R, RS, and RM. The rentals are still there. We are organizing to ban every short-term rental permit in non-commercially zoned residential areas, and conservation overlays are where we start.
What is happening
Guests are sent to the wrong house. Different groups show up on different nights and try to enter homes that are not rentals, including late at night. The houses that are rented stop being homes: noise, trash, parking, and a revolving set of strangers.
What the law says
Metro’s permit rules (opens in a new tab) bar new not-owner-occupied permits in AR2A, R, RS, and RM. Existing ones there can still be renewed, and they die on a sale. Owner-occupied permits are still issued in residential zones. Revocation after three violations is discretionary.
What we are demanding
- A complete ban on all short-term rental permits, owner-occupied and not owner-occupied, in non-commercially zoned residential areas.
- Enforcement of the rules already written, including unpermitted listings and the three-violation revocation path.
- Conservation overlays first.
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