Unincorporated Lane County sets no dedicated STR guest-count cap. Occupancy is governed by the Oregon Residential Specialty/building code, on-site septic (DEQ) capacity and zoning. Cities within the county (e.g. Eugene) impose their own STR occupancy limits.
The county has no standalone short-term-rental occupancy ordinance for the unincorporated area. Practical limits come from the state-adopted building code, room sizes, and — critically for rural properties on wells and septic — the wastewater system's rated capacity under DEQ/Lane County sanitation rules, which caps how many people a dwelling can support. Rural residential ADUs approved under SB 391 / Ordinance 23-05 are limited to 900 sq ft and cannot be used for vacation occupancy at all. Incorporated cities such as Eugene set explicit STR occupancy caps within their limits.
Exceeding the wastewater system's approved capacity or building-code occupancy can trigger sanitation and code-enforcement action; septic overload is a nuisance/health violation.
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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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