Oxnard, CA Short-Term Rentals: Night Caps (2026)

Sec. 16-662(C) sets the annual ceiling: 'Vacation rentals shall be limited to a maximum of 100-day annual cap per calendar year. ' The same 100-day limit is restated as an operational standard at Sec. 1, which frames it as a hard limit on 'duration of stay' rather than a permit condition, giving the city two independent code sections to enforce against. The cap sits alongside two other Sec. 16-662 restrictions: a citywide 5% permit cap per general plan neighborhood under subsection (A), measured against the neighborhood map in Figure 3-4 of the 2030 general plan, and a 200-foot separation rule under subsection (B) barring a new vacation rental permit within 200 feet of an already-permitted vacation rental, measured from the property lines on record with Ventura County.

All three restrictions, the 100-day cap, the 5% neighborhood cap, and the 200-foot separation, carry the same carve-out: they do not apply to a dwelling unit in a development subject to the Vacation Ownership and Time-share Act of 2004 (Cal. and Prof. ) that became subject to that Act on or before January 1, 2019. Homeshares are not subject to the 100-day cap because Sec. 16-662 and Sec. 1 apply the limit specifically to 'vacation rentals,' the category defined in Sec. 16-661 as a unit rented while the owner is not present.