Plumas County, CA Short-Term Rentals: Parking Rules (2026)

Plumas County has not adopted parking requirements tailored to short-term rentals. A vacation rental is treated as a dwelling, so it falls under the County's general off-street parking schedule in Sec. 9-2.414, which requires two off-street parking spaces per dwelling unit (one space per accessory dwelling unit or additional quarters). That same section gives the Planning Director authority to determine or modify parking requirements where the listed uses do not squarely fit, but there is no separate guest-vehicle or one-space-per-bedroom rule aimed at vacation rentals. For the one explicitly defined residential transient use, the bed and breakfast inn, Sec. 9-2.213.5 requires that on-site parking be adequately screened from view from the street. In practice, STR parking concerns in lake and resort communities are handled through these general dwelling standards plus any private road, homeowners' association, or fire-access requirements that apply to the specific parcel, rather than through a county STR parking ordinance. Operators on narrow mountain or lakeside roads should also be mindful of fire-access and snow-removal considerations, which can effectively limit on-street guest parking even where the County code is silent.