Short-term-rental rules
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The Village of Ardsley has no short-term-rental permit program, and its zoning code effectively bars STRs: the residential districts (R-1, R-2, R-3) permit only one-family dwellings and a few institutional uses, while a dwelling offering paid overnight accommodations to transient guests is a "tourist home" or "boardinghouse," which is not a permitted use in any district and is expressly prohibited in the B-2 business district. The only place the code mentions short-term rentals at all is the accessory-dwelling-unit law, which flatly bans listing an ADU for short-term rental and sets a 180-day minimum lease.
The operator's read
Can I run a short-term rental in Ardsley (Village), NY?
No go for nightly stays
The rule that closes it: Accessory dwelling units may not be listed for short-term rental; the minimum rental or lease period is 180 days (maximum three years), the owner must occupy the property, and ADUs are capped at 50 village-wide (§ 200-100.27, added 12-19-2022 by L.L. No. 9-2022).
- Is there a legal way to rent short-term in Ardsley (Village)?
- Most ordinances of this kind restrict stays under 30 nights and leave longer furnished rentals alone, so a 30-plus-night rental is usually the compliant route in Ardsley (Village). Confirm the specifics against the sources on this page before you rely on it.
What would you do with a property in Ardsley (Village)?
Not for nightly stays. The compliant play in Ardsley (Village) is a furnished rental of 30 nights or more, which most ordinances of this kind leave open, and which we can set up and run. If you are buying specifically to run nightly stays, buy somewhere else.
What the rules say in Ardsley (Village)
- Zoning is permissive: § 200-5 requires every use of land or buildings to conform to the district regulations, and uses not listed as permitted are not allowed (the business districts state this expressly).
- R-1, R-2 and R-3 residential districts (§§ 200-6, 200-14, 200-22, each amended 4-6-2026 by L.L. No. 4-2026) permit only one-family dwellings, churches, public parks, nonprofit schools, accessory uses that do not include any activity commonly conducted as a business, and home occupations; no transient-lodging use is listed.
- § 200-2 defines TOURIST HOME as 'a dwelling in which overnight accommodations are provided or offered for transient guests for compensation' and BOARDINGHOUSE as 'any dwelling in which one or more persons... are housed or lodged for hire' (including bed-and-breakfasts and rooming houses); paid transient occupancy of a dwelling therefore falls under use categories no district permits.
- § 200-2 (HOME OCCUPATION) expressly excludes bed-and-breakfast establishments, boardinghouses, tourist homes and rooming houses from the home-occupation allowance in residential districts.
- The B-2 Special Business District expressly prohibits 'Hotel,' 'Motel,' 'Tourist home' and 'Camps' (§ 200-74); B-1 (§ 200-65) and B-3 (§ 200-80.2) have closed permitted-use lists with no lodging uses and catch-all prohibitions of unlisted uses.
- Accessory dwelling units may not be listed for short-term rental; the minimum rental or lease period is 180 days (maximum three years), the owner must occupy the property, and ADUs are capped at 50 village-wide (§ 200-100.27, added 12-19-2022 by L.L. No. 9-2022).
- The Village imposes a 3% hotel/motel occupancy tax (Ch. 180, Art. VIII, effective 3-1-2017) on rent for hotel occupancy, with 'hotel' including boarding houses; this is a tax provision, not a zoning authorization.
- There is no STR registration, permit, or rental-licensing law anywhere in the Village Code (current through the 4-6-2026 local law); a full-text search finds 'short-term rental' only in the ADU article.
Sources: Village of Ardsley Code (eCode360) - table of contents; Ardsley Zoning § 200-2 Definitions (tourist home, boardinghouse, hotel, family, home occupation); Ardsley Zoning Art. II §§ 200-3 to 200-5 (compliance with district regulations required); Ardsley Zoning § 200-6 R-1 District permitted uses (as amended by L.L. 4-2026); Ardsley Zoning § 200-14 R-2 District permitted uses; Ardsley Zoning § 200-22 R-3 District permitted uses; Ardsley Zoning § 200-65 B-1 District permitted uses (all other uses prohibited); Ardsley Zoning § 200-74 B-2 District prohibited uses (hotel, motel, tourist home); Ardsley Zoning § 200-80.2 B-3 District uses (unlisted uses deemed prohibited); Ardsley Zoning Art. XIIB Accessory Dwelling Units incl. § 200-100.27 (ADU short-term rental ban, 180-day minimum lease); Ardsley Code Ch. 180 Art. VIII Hotel/Motel Occupancy Tax (3% tax; hotel includes boarding house); Ardsley Code Ch. 156 Property Maintenance (no rental registration provisions). Last reviewed 2026-07.
How short-term rentals are regulated in New York
- New York has no single statewide short-term-rental ban. Towns, villages, and cities set their own rules through local ordinances and zoning, so rules can differ sharply between neighboring municipalities in the same county.
- Short stays in New York are generally subject to state and local sales tax, and many counties add a local occupancy (hotel/motel) tax, often collected by the booking platform on the host's behalf.
- Common local controls include permits or registration, primary-residence requirements, and zoning limits on which districts allow short-term use. In New York, a town and a village inside it can each have their own rule.
- Rules change. An ordinance can be added or amended at any time. Always confirm the current rule with the municipality before listing.
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