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

Redding draws two separate numeric ceilings on short-term rentals depending on the permit type. 180(E)(3) caps both occupancy and duration: "Occupancy shall be limited to a maximum of two persons per rented bedroom. " The 180-day limit resets every January 1 and is checked against the reports operators must file with their transient occupancy tax remittances under subsection E(15), which require a statement of "the number of short-term-rental tenant stays" for the reporting period, giving the finance department a paper trail to verify an owner hasn't exceeded the annual cap.

" Once that four-hundred-permit ceiling is reached, the Development Services director cannot issue a new vacation rental Site Development Permit until an existing permit lapses, is revoked, or is not renewed, effectively putting new applicants on a waitlist tied to attrition. The two caps interact with the ordinance's spacing rule in subsection F(2)(a)(2), which also bars a new vacation rental within six hundred feet of an existing one (three hundred feet where a buffer such as an arterial road or flood channel separates them), so even before the citywide 400 cap binds, geographic clustering can independently block a new permit.