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Lewisville council directs staff to draft STR ordinance with 1,500-cap option, 1,000-foot spacing and multifamily guardrails
Summary
City council debated short-term rental rules, directed staff to prepare an ordinance with a 150-permit city cap (grandfathering existing permits), a 1,000-foot spacing option, and multifamily percentage guardrails while flagging enforcement and staffing needs.
Lewisville city council spent a lengthy segment of its May 2025 meeting reviewing short-term rental (STR) policy options and asked staff to return with draft ordinance language that includes spacing, multifamily limits and an overall permit cap.
City staff presented data on current activity: 98 active STR permits and 15 pending applications (113 total at the meeting), and several staff analyses of hypothetical spacing rules that showed a 500-foot spacing could allow up to roughly 3,249 single-family properties to qualify under a maximum-case approach, whereas a 1,000-foot linear spacing would cover about 841 parcels (approximately 3…
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