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Short-term rental rules in Port Angeles, WA
How Port Angeles 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 200 Type II (non-principal-residence / whole-home) STR licenses
- cap MAXED — reached April 2026, city not issuing new Type II licenses (whole-home STR foreclosed to new entrants)
- per-owner / per-marital-community / per-parcel license limits (one unit per license, one license per owner, one license per parcel)
- STR-specific business license + fire/life-safety inspection required for Type II
Based on: PAMC Ch. 17.23 (Short-Term Rentals); Ord. 3728 adopted 2024-03-06 (replaced Ord. 3577); as adjusted by Ord. 3748 and
Summary of the rule
There is a citywide cap of 200 licenses that can be issued for Type II Short-Term Rentals. The City reached the 200-license cap in April 2026 and is not currently issuing new licenses for Type II STRs.
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