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Council approves STR regulations, bars short‑term rentals in Whittier’s mapped fire‑hazard areas
Summary
Following extensive testimony from hill residents concerned about wildfire risk and neighborhood impacts, the council directed staff to draft an ordinance implementing 12 STR best practices and voted to prohibit short‑term rentals in the city’s CAL FIRE-designated red, orange and yellow zones.
The Whittier City Council voted July 8 to direct staff to prepare a short-term rental (STR) ordinance incorporating a set of 12 best-practice controls and to prohibit STRs in areas the California State Fire Marshal maps as very high, high and moderate fire hazard zones.
Staff summarized draft controls — which include business licenses, STR permits, transient-occupancy-tax collection, a seven-night minimum stay, and requirements that an owner live on the property — and asked the council whether to add a prohibition on STRs in mapped fire-hazard zones. Several residents who live in the Whittier Hills testified in detail about narrow, one‑way streets, lack of fire access, parties, parking problems and fireworks; many urged a full ban in…
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