Can you Airbnb in Yorktown, NY?

What the rules say in Yorktown

• Permissive zoning: uses not listed as permitted in a district are prohibited (Code § 300-21B).
• A dwelling offering overnight accommodations to transient guests is a "tourist home" (§ 300-3 definition), the code's category that captures STR activity; hotels (6+ rooms, primarily transients) and boardinghouses (3+ roomers) are defined separately.
• Tourist homes and boardinghouses are allowed in residential districts (R1-200 through R1-10, R-2, R-3) only as a main use by special permit under Article VII (§ 300-21C(1)(b)[15]).
• § 300-60: a tourist home/boardinghouse is permitted only when conducted in a dwelling by the RESIDENT owner or lessee, i.e., owner-occupied/hosted only; a non-resident whole-home STR cannot qualify.
• § 300-60 conditions: no individual kitchen/dining in sleeping rooms, no change to exterior appearance, max one rented sleeping room per 1,000 sq ft of lot area (10-room cap), rooms at least 100 sq ft, one off-street parking space per rented room.
• The only as-of-right rental accessory use in a dwelling is keeping no more than two NONtransient roomers or boarders (§ 300-21C(1)(c)[2]); transient (short-term) roomers are excluded.
• Hotels/motels require special permits and belong to commercial districts (§ 300-52); conversion of pre-1930 dwellings to hotels/multiple residences also needs a special permit (§ 300-68).
• No STR registration law, transient-occupancy law, or rental-permit chapter exists in the town code (verified against the Nov 27, 2025 capture of the live code; no later adoption found in town or news sources through July 2026).
• The Town of Yorktown contains no incorporated villages, so the town code applies town-wide (Yorktown Heights, Jefferson Valley, Shrub Oak, Mohegan Lake, Crompond are hamlets under town zoning).

Sources: Town of Yorktown Code, Ch. 300 Zoning, Article V: Schedule of Regulations (eCode360, live canonical page); § 300-21 Schedule of Regulations full text (permissive-zoning clause, residential use lists, nontransient-roomers accessory use), archived copy consulted; § 300-3 Definitions (tourist home, boardinghouse, hotel, family, dwelling unit), archived copy consulted; Ch. 300 Article VII Permitted Special Uses content incl. § 300-60 tourist-home standards, Nov 27 2025 capture of live code (currency check); § 300-60 Tourist homes, boardinghouses and rooming houses (special-permit standards), archived copy consulted; Town of Yorktown Code, Ch. 300 Article VII: Permitted Special Uses (eCode360, live canonical page); Town of Yorktown official site search result (no STR regulation pages found on yorktownny.org). Last reviewed 2026-07.