{"id":141,"date":"2026-10-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calpropgroup.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2026-10-28T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T09:00:00","slug":"santa-barbara-advances-short-term-rental-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calpropgroup.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/28\/santa-barbara-advances-short-term-rental-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Barbara Advances Short-Term Rental Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/sbgal\/santa-barbara-council-approves-new-framework-for-short-term-rentals-homeshares-remotion-videos-3f1f\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Santa Barbara&#039;s council advanced a unanimous framework for short-term rentals and homeshares, adding zoning limits, licensing requirements, operating rules, and new fees citywide.<br \/>\nInland residential neighborhoods generally would not allow whole-home rentals or homeshares, while commercial and mixed-use areas could; coastal rules allowed broader homeshare eligibility.<br \/>\nADUs, affordable housing, live-work units, garages, storage spaces, and RVs were excluded, and homes with long-term tenants in the past 24 mo remained ineligible.<br \/>\nOperators would need a license, two-night minimum stays, quiet hours, and a local contact answering complaints within 30 minutes; fees were $3.3K upfront, $2.9K yearly.<br \/>\nCouncil kept one license per owner and one STR per lot. The licensing program was planned for January 11, 2027, with 180 days to comply.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Barbara&#039;s council advanced a unanimous framework for short-term rentals and homeshares, adding zoning limits, licensing requirements, operating rules, and new fees citywide. Inland residential neighborhoods generally would not allow whole-home rentals or homeshares, while commercial and mixed-use areas could; coastal rules allowed broader homeshare eligibility. ADUs, affordable housing, live-work units, garages, storage spaces, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calpropgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calpropgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calpropgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calpropgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calpropgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calpropgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/www.calpropgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calpropgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calpropgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calpropgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calpropgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}