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Short-term rental rules in Truckee, CA
How Truckee 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 cap of 1,255 STR certificates (overall cap inventory)
- cap fully reached — new applicants join a waitlist (16-month average wait)
- STR permit required (transient occupancy registration certificate, annual renewal, inspection)
- no new STR certificates in subdivisions approved after Jan 1, 2022
Based on: Truckee Municipal Code Ch. 5.02 (Transient Rentals of Residential Units); Ord. 2022-02 (cap eff. May 12, 2022)
Summary of the rule
Cap. Effective May 12, 2022, the total number of short-term rental transient occupancy registration certificates issued shall be capped at 1,255 ("overall cap inventory"), subject to the Town Council's authority to authorize the issuance of additional certificates as set forth in subsection 2.
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