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Short-term rental rules in Long Beach, CA
How Long Beach 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.
- hard citywide numeric cap on non-primary-residence (un-hosted / whole-home) STR registrations, allocated by lottery
- primary-residence un-hosted rentals limited to 90 days per registration period
- census-tract-block-group petition can prohibit un-hosted STRs entirely within a block group
- registration required; hosting platforms barred from booking un-registered STRs
- Coastal Zone regime certified by the California Coastal Commission (LCP amendment) and separately enforced
Based on: Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 5.77 (Short-Term Rentals); Coastal Zone provisions certified via Local Coastal Program
Summary of the rule
Non-Primary Residence registrations permit un-hosted STR for an unlimited number of days per registration period, but the number of non-primary-residence STRs is limited citywide to a maximum of 800 units, allocated by lottery.
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