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Short-term rental rules in Stinson Beach, CA
How Stinson 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 numeric cap: Stinson Beach limited to 192 STR licenses (a fixed community-specific quota, not a countywide number), codified at Marin County Code Section 5.41.070 Table 1
- One STR permit per person (no operator may hold multiple licenses)
- Licenses are non-transferable on sale (do not run with the property), with only one-time transfers to spouse/child allowed
- New STR permits prohibited in multi-family buildings; ADUs built 2020+ barred from STR use
- Two-year license renewal, local-contact requirement, TOT certificate, permit number required on all listings
- Cap/licensing program CERTIFIED by the CA Coastal Commission (durable in the coastal zone, not a pending/uncertified restriction)
Based on: Marin County Code Chapter 5.41 (Short Term Rental License Requirements), re-enacted by Ord. No. 3816, Section II
Summary of the rule
Hard cap of 192 short-term rental licenses for Stinson Beach (both initial and ultimate), codified in Marin County Code Section 5.41.070 (Caps on the number of short term rental licenses), Table 1 - Short Term Rental Caps; community-specific quota within the 1,200 countywide unincorporated cap. Enacted by Ord. No. 3816, Section II, adopted May 7, 2024.
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