ADU rentals Denver - Owner must reside on location. Is this true?

[Emily Fischer]

Hello,

My husband and I are looking at places in Denver with an ADU. We don't completely understand the rules and aren't finding the city planning department to be very useful. The rules seem to state that the owner must live on location in order to be able to rent out an ADU. This seems pretty constricting (and that might be the point). We would love to eventually be able to move out and continue to rent out both places. Any ideas on this? Does this count towards only new ADU builds or would existing ADUs be subject to this rule as well?

[Tyler Work]

@Emily Fischer I attend all of the Denver short term rental meetings. Here is your workaround: when you are ready to move out, put a long term tenant in your ADU and rent the main house out on Airbnb. Get your tenant to hold the license and consider it their primary residence. You are 100% in compliance if you do it this way.