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Short-term rental rules in Lincoln City, OR
How Lincoln City 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 citywide cap on STR licenses in residential zones (R1-5 capped at 194; R1-RE capped at 91)
- caps are currently reached/maxed — no new licenses issued until attrition drops the count below the cap (functional moratorium on net-new residential STRs)
- STR-specific license required (LCMC Ch. 5.14) plus zoning device (LCMC Ch. 17.80)
- separate Vacation Rental (VR) zone (Ch. 17.18) is where STR is a by-right primary use; residential R1 zones are the constrained supply
Based on: LCMC Ch. 17.80 (Provisions Applying to Special Uses) STR cap provisions, codified from ordinance effective Nov. 22
Summary of the rule
The total number of short-term rentals in the R1-5 zone shall not exceed 194; the cap has been reached, so no new licenses will be issued until the number of licensed STRs falls below the cap.
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