File #: O-17-25    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Public Hearing
File created: 5/1/2025 In control: Economic Matters Committee
On agenda: 7/14/2025 Final action:
Title: Limiting Short-term Rentals per Blockface For the purpose of limiting the number of short-term rentals in the City to 10% of the residences in a blockface; defining blockface; and generally dealing with short-term rentals in the City of Annapolis.
Sponsors: Harry Huntley
Indexes: Economic Matters Committee, Rules and City Government Committee
Attachments: 1. O-17-25 First Reader, 2. O-17-25 Legislative Summary, 3. O-17-25 Staff Report, 4. O-17-25 Staffing Impact Report, 5. O-17-25 Fiscal Impact Note, 6. O-17-25 Amendment 1 - Savidge, 7. O-17-25 Amendment 2 - Savidge
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Limiting Short-term Rentals per Blockface
For the purpose of limiting the number of short-term rentals in the City to 10% of the residences in a blockface; defining blockface; and generally dealing with short-term rentals in the City of Annapolis.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis

Ordinance 17-25

Introduced by: Alderman Huntley


Referred to: Economic Matters Committee, Rules and City Government Committee

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Limiting Short-term Rentals per Blockface

FOR the purpose of limiting the number of short-term rentals in the City to 10% of the residences in a blockface; defining blockface; and generally dealing with short-term rentals in the City of Annapolis.

BY repealing and reenacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2025 Edition:
17.44.090
17.44.110

WHEREAS, The City of Annapolis seeks to balance the growing popularity of short-term rentals (STRs) with the preservation of neighborhood character, residential quality of life, and housing availability; and
WHEREAS, Host Compliance, a service used by the City of Annapolis to monitor short-term rentals, finds 92% of the STRs in Annapolis are an entire single-family home being rented, and since 2021, when Host Compliance has tracked STRs within Annapolis, total listings of STRs has grown by 27.5% as shown by the comprehensive plan graph below; and

WHEREAS, The City's comprehensive long-term plan on City development and services, "Annapolis Ahead: Comprehensive Plan 2040," has found that short-term rentals are already impacting the City's unique neighborhoods, specifically Historic Downtown, Eastport, and Inner West Street (pages 188-189) and recommends that the City Council, "Amend the policies regulating for Short-Term Rentals (STR's)... for housing affordability and neighborhood preservation."; and
WHEREAS, The City of Annapolis finds that limiting the concentration of STRs within residential blocks is necessary to mitigate t...

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