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Short-term rental rules in Seaside, OR
How Seaside 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.
- Whole-home/absentee STR (Vacation Rental Dwelling) permitted ONLY within an enumerated beachfront overlay area; foreclosed in the balance of the city's residential zones
- Spatial-distribution density caps within the overlay (100% / 50% / 30% of tax lots within 100ft may be licensed VRDs)
- One STR license per owner/ownership
- 90-day waiting period for new VRDs; 2-year post-Certificate-of-Occupancy bar for new construction
- $500 application/inspection fee; annual re-inspection; local (in-county) 24/7 contact required
Based on: Seaside Code of Ordinances Title XI Ch. 120 (Short Term Rentals), added by Ord. 2024-04, amended by Ord. 2025-01 (eff.
Summary of the rule
Short-term rental licenses are permitted for vacation rental dwellings only in the following locations: [enumerated beachfront overlay — properties abutting Sunset Blvd. from Tillamook Head north to Ocean Vista Dr. incl. Whaler's Point; Ocean Vista Dr. north to S. Edgewood St.; S. Edgewood St. north to Avenue U west to the ocean shore; Avenue U east to the Necanicum River; west of the Necanicum River to the ocean shore north of Avenue U to 1st Ave.; west of Holladay Dr. to the ocean shore from 1st Ave. north to 12th Ave.; west of the Necanicum River to the ocean shore from 12th Ave. north to the Necanicum River estuary] (See Exhibit A)
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