Nantucket Already Has Strong STR Regulations
STR Bylaws were adopted at 2022 ATM and strengthened at 2024 ATM and STM.
Stopped Investor-Owned Corporate STRs (1)
Set Clear Rules for Hosts (2)
Addressed “Who Do I Call with STR Issues?” (3)
Established Penalties for Non-Compliant Hosts (2)
Nantucket Town Services Rely on STR Tax Revenue
“Island's Short-Term Rental Tax Revenue Plunged 27 Percent In Summer 2024” (4)
- Nantucket Current, April 8, 2025
With a record budget including large and essential projects, an STR tax revenue shortfall means cuts to Town services and staff and/or increased property taxes.
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1 Adopted Article 60 at 2024 ATM and Article 5 at 2024 STM
2 Adopted Article 39 at 2022 ATM
3 Town implemented complaint hotline and logging to facilitate enforcement.
4 Town of Nantucket Finance Department
We are in full support of the recommendations by the town Finance Committee, Planning Board and Select Board to:
We do not support investor-only STRS where the owners never set foot on the island. We do not support any application of 'accessory use' zoning because there are too many STR models on Nantucket that don't clearly fall into any simple definition of 'accessory' and the use of any home is a fluid situation. A steady stream of neighbors challenging how one uses their home coming before the ZBA is not a desirable or enforceable solution.
Nantucket Together continues to support the traditional model of family operated STRs as currently regulated by the town.
We also support:
And most importantly, we look to eliminate the neighbor-vs.-neighbor acrimony related to vacation rentals and the commercialization of Nantucket neighborhoods.
YES
• Many of our supporters are previous islanders who moved off for a job, a marriage, or to care for a loved one. But they still return every summer and many hoped to retire on island. Any discriminatory practice against part-time residents presents a threat to their ability to maintain their home.
• If you give or bequeath your home of land to your children and they ever need to move away for a period or time or look to build a home and rent it to pay for it, we do not want to restrict their ability to earn income to support the home.
• If you intend to retire to warmer climes in the winter as part of your retirement plan and rent your Nantucket home when you are away we want to protect your future right to rent.
• If you own a second property on the island or have a cottage on the same property as your permanent residence, your right to rent should not be taken away or restricted.
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Let's stop neighbor vs. neighbor lawsuits
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