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Watertown bans short‑term rentals citywide, offering no permit, registration, or legal pathway and actively enforcing a minimum 31‑day lease rule; after rejecting a 2024 proposal that would have allowed limited STRs, the city has made compliance practically impossible, deterring investment.
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Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, part of Greater Boston. The population was 35,329 in the 2020 census. Its neighborhoods include Bemis, Coolidge Square, East Watertown, Watertown Square, and the West End. Watertown was one of the first Massachusetts Bay Colony settlements organized by Puritan settlers in 1630. The city is home to the Perkins School for the Blind, the Armenian Library and Museum of America, and the historic Watertown Arsenal, which produced military armaments from 1816 through World War II.