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Board approves revised short-term rental rules, keeps hosted rentals available and requires grandfathering
Summary
The Board on Aug. 19 amended Santa Cruz County's short-term rental rules to clarify caps and to preserve existing hosted rentals, while restricting expansion of unhosted, commercial-style listings.
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Aug. 19 approved amendments to the county's short-term rental (STR) ordinance intended to curb the growth of unhosted, commercial-style rentals while preserving hosted rentals used by homeowners for supplemental income.
What changed: Staff described the amendments as a clarification of how counts and caps are calculated in the county's coastal exception zone. Assistant director Stephanie Hansen said the update removes an anomalous earlier counting…
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