Unincorporated Lane County has no host-present (hosted-only) requirement for short-term rentals; whole-home rentals of primary dwellings are permitted subject to zoning and lodging-tax registration. Rural ADUs cannot be vacation-rented regardless of host presence.
The county does not distinguish hosted from unhosted rentals in the unincorporated area — there is no rule that the owner must remain on-site during a guest stay. Whole-home short-term rental of an eligible primary dwelling is allowed provided the operator registers to collect the Transient Room Tax and the use fits the zone. The one hard limit is the rural residential ADU, which is barred from vacation occupancy entirely under Ordinance 23-05. Incorporated cities may adopt hosted-only or owner-present conditions in their own STR programs.
There is no host-presence violation at the county level; enforcement instead targets unregistered lodging-tax collection or prohibited ADU vacation use.
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Lane County allows residential backyard composting and actively promotes it through its Waste Management program. There is no compost permit for home use, bu...
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Lane County has no ordinance regulating, requiring, or banning artificial turf for residential landscaping. Ground-cover choice is unregulated on ordinary lo...
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Lane County does not require homeowners to plant native species, and the noxious-vegetation code exempts nothing based on native status. In forest and ripari...
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Rainwater harvesting is legal statewide. ORS 537.141 exempts collecting precipitation from an artificial impervious surface, like a rooftop, from Oregon's wa...
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Oregon has no statewide homeowner lawn-watering ban, and Lane County sets no county-wide outdoor-watering schedule. Restrictions come from your local water u...
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Lane Code 9.057.574 defines weeds more than ten inches high as "noxious vegetation," along with poison oak or ivy, tansy ragwort, thistle, and encroaching bl...
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