Fullerton effectively restricts non-hosted whole-house STRs to a hard cap of 100 citywide permits, and whole-house rentals must maintain a 300-foot separation from any other whole-house STR. Partial-home (home-sharing) rentals where the owner is present on-site are not capped, but every rental must comply with the Good Neighbor Guidelines including occupancy disclosures.
Under City Council Resolution No. 2021-30 (April 20, 2021), Fullerton limits whole-house (non-owner-occupied) short-term rentals to a maximum of 100 permits citywide. The same resolution requires that each whole-house STR be separated by at least 300 linear feet from any other whole-house STR; multi-family units are exempt from the separation requirement. Partial-home or 'home-sharing' rentals - where the owner remains on-site during the rental - are not subject to the 100-permit cap. As of April 2025 the City reported 84 active whole-home permits and 22 partial-home permits. Applicants must submit a floor plan showing every bedroom (the bedroom count drives the property's maximum overnight occupancy disclosed in the listing) and must include occupancy, parking, and quiet-hours rules in the written rental agreement. The City's Good Neighbor Guidelines, which every host must post inside the property and provide to guests, require compliance with occupancy limits, parking restrictions, and noise standards; events such as weddings, auctions, and commercial filming are prohibited at any permitted STR.
Exceeding the occupancy listed in the permit, hosting prohibited events (weddings, auctions, filming), or operating a whole-house STR within the 300-foot exclusion buffer subjects the operator to administrative citations, daily fines, and permit revocation. The City uses complaint-driven enforcement, and each day a violation continues is a separate offense.
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