Short Term Rental Ordinance
Summary
SCH Number
2025090294
Public Agency
Santa Cruz County
Document Title
Short Term Rental Ordinance
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
9/8/2025
Document Description
This project involves a proposed amendment to the Santa Cruz County Code to repeal the Hosted Rental and Vacation Rental Ordinances and adopt the Short-Term Rental Ordinance. The proposed amendments modify existing regulations of vacation rentals and hosted rentals to clarify the regulations, set countywide caps and modify designated area caps on the number of rentals, implement a response hotline, and establish guidelines for online advertising platforms, among other revisions.
Contact Information
Name
Fernanda Dias Pini
Agency Name
County of Santa Cruz
Job Title
Planner
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Cities
Santa Cruz
Counties
Santa Cruz
Regions
Countywide
Other Location Info
County Wide
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Other
Type, Section or Code
Section 15061(b)(3)
Reasons for Exemption
The proposed amendments to the Santa Cruz County Code are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), the “common sense” exemption, because the amendments are relatively minor adjustments to existing regulations and implement additional limitations and enforcement provisions related to short-term rentals, an already permitted use in the County Code. The regulations included in the proposed ordinance function to limit the impacts of the allowed uses, and therefore no significant environmental impacts are reasonably foreseeable.
County Clerk
Santa Cruz
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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