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Short-term rental rules in Point Reyes Station, CA
How Point Reyes Station 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 community-specific numeric cap for Point Reyes Station: 32 initial / 26 ultimate STR licenses (Marin County Code §5.41.070 Table 1) — quota/supply constraint
- Countywide cap of 1,200 STR licenses in unincorporated Marin (excluding Dillon Beach) — binding
- One STR license per property owner (§5.41.050.B); two-year license term/renewal
- Coastal-zone regulation certified by the CA Coastal Commission via LCP amendment — durable and effective in the coastal zone
Based on: Marin County Code §5.41.070 Table 1 (Ord. 3816, adopted May 7, 2024)
Summary of the rule
PRIMARY (Marin County Code §5.41.070, Table 1 - Short Term Rental Caps): Point Reyes Station township hard numeric cap — INITIAL number of short term rentals = 32 (licenses available for valid first-round applications submitted before July 1, 2025), declining to ULTIMATE number = 26 as licenses/renewals lapse over time. No new license may be issued that would exceed the township ultimate cap (after first round) or the county-wide 1,200 cap. This is the operative supply device (quota). (For reference, the same table caps Stinson Beach at 192/192.)
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