San Luis Obispo County, CA Short-Term Rentals: Extended Home Share (2026)

Homestays, defined as one to two rented bedrooms in an owner-occupied single-family home in the Residential Suburban or Residential Single Family categories, carry their own permit package under Sec. 270: a limit of two guest rooms (Subsection B), a ban on physically expanding the house to accommodate the use (Subsection E), a minimum one-acre site in Residential Suburban (Subsection F), and dedicated parking for each rented bedroom that cannot spill onto the street (Subsection G). None of those standards reach an extended home share. The opening paragraph of Sec.

" A host who rents a room to the same tenant for more than a week therefore falls outside the homestay permit scheme entirely, and is not bound by the two-guest-room cap, the acreage minimum, or the on-site parking rule that apply to shorter homestay bookings. The carve-out is not a blank check, however: the same sentence preserves the County Tax Collector's authority to require "special fees and/or licensing for any residential rental less than 30 days," meaning a rental between eight and twenty-nine days can still trigger Transient Occupancy Tax registration even though it escapes the homestay land-use standards altogether.