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Board narrows short‑term rental rules, adds acreage and spacing tests amid housing concerns
Summary
Supervisors approved amendments to short-term rental rules for inland and coastal zones, including new acreage carve-outs for agricultural-zoned parcels, a larger neighborhood spacing radius and other technical changes; motion passed 3–2 after extended discussion about housing supply and farm-stay definitions.
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors voted 3–2 March 11 to amend the county’s inland and coastal short‑term rental ordinances, changing how the county treats short‑term rentals on smaller agricultural parcels, adjusting neighborhood-concentration rules and clarifying road‑access standards.
Board action and purpose The board approved staff’s proposed ordinance changes with several member amendments. The final motion replaced the ordinance’s “nearest 10 houses as the crow flies” neighborhood test with a distance-based test and increased the neighborhood separation radius in the motion to 600 feet from the proposed 300-foot standard; it also added a 2.5‑acre threshold for certain agricultural-zoned parcels and allowed home-share short‑term rentals on smaller…
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