Victorville, CA Accessory Structures: ADU Rental Restrictions (2026)

030(a)(3) govern every accessory dwelling unit and junior accessory dwelling unit application in the city, whether attached, detached, or converted from existing space. Item (xii) states that the rental term for an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit shall not be less than thirty days, closing off vacation-rental and extended-stay use of these units. The same subsection requires that ADU and JADU applications be approved or disapproved ministerially within sixty days of a complete application (item (i)), that the underlying parcel already carry an existing or proposed single-family or multifamily use in a residential or mixed-use zone (subsection (a)(2)), and, at item (xiii), that a JADU be built within the walls of an existing or proposed single-family residence while an ADU may be attached, detached, or converted from existing space.

The Development Department processes ADU and JADU applications and reviews compliance with the rental-term floor at issuance and through code enforcement complaints; because approval is ministerial, an applicant cannot obtain a discretionary waiver of the thirty-day minimum. 22 to expand housing opportunities while keeping ADUs a compatible and integral part of the city's residential zoning districts. A property owner who rents an ADU for fewer than thirty days is renting in violation of the standard the unit was approved under, exposing the owner to the city's general code-violation and nuisance-abatement remedies rather than a standalone ADU penalty.