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Short-term rental rules in Cambria, CA
How Cambria regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Rules here limit which homes may operate as short-term rentals, how many, where, or for how many nights a year.
- Density/separation cap: no residential vacation rental may be located within 200 linear feet of another VR/visitor-serving unit on the same side of the street, within 200 feet on the opposite side, or within a 150-foot radius (SLO County Coastal Zone LUO 23.08.165) — a dispersal/density supply constraint specific to Cambria
- Turnover limit: rental of a residence shall not exceed four individual tenancies per calendar month
- Standard is contained in the County's Coastal-Commission-certified Local Coastal Program (Title 23), so it is in force and durable (not a pending/uncertified coastal restriction)
- No owner-occupancy / primary-residence requirement and no overall numeric permit cap in Cambria (contrast: 55-unit cap in Los Osos), which keeps intensity below 'high'
Based on: SLO County Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance (Title 23) § 23.08.165 Residential Vacation Rentals; Cambria location
Summary of the rule
No residential vacation rental may be located within 200 linear feet of another VR/visitor-serving unit on the same side of the street, within 200 linear feet on the opposite side, or within a 150-foot radius (measured property line to property line) — Cambria-specific location standard
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