Mountain View, CA Short-Term Rentals: Noise Rules (2026)

f is Mountain View's dedicated party-house rule for short-term rentals, listed among the chapter's operating standards alongside parking and trash requirements. It prohibits weddings, corporate events, commercial functions, large parties and other similar events on a short-term rental property whenever those events have the potential to cause traffic, parking, noise, or other impacts to the neighborhood. This sits alongside, and reinforces, the host's obligation under Sec. c to designate a local contact person available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, who must respond on-site within 60 minutes to complaints about the condition or operation of the rental or the conduct of renters, and take remedial action to resolve them.

Because the special-events ban applies during short-term rentals generally, it covers both hosted and unhosted stays; a host cannot use an in-person hosted stay to justify hosting a large gathering that would otherwise be barred. The prohibition is enforced as part of the chapter's general violation clause, Sec. 3, which states that no person shall host or rent any residence in violation of the chapter's provisions, folding the special-events ban into the same citation and compliance-order framework that governs every other operating standard.