San Luis Obispo County, CA Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Parking Rules (2026)

On-site parking is one of the linked standards in the Adelaida/Willow Creek vacation-rental package at Sec. 510(b). Subsection ix requires all parking associated with a residential vacation rental to be entirely on-site, in the garage, driveway, or otherwise out of the roadway, and states flatly that tenants of residential vacation rentals shall not use on-street parking at any time. The parking rule connects directly to the area's occupancy cap: Sec. 510(b)(iv) ties the maximum overnight occupancy of a vacation rental to how many people the on-site parking required by Subsection ix can actually accommodate, on top of the two-persons-per-bedroom-plus-two formula (excluding children under five).

In practice that means an owner cannot simply add bedrooms or beds to raise capacity if the driveway and garage cannot fit the extra vehicles that come with more guests. The rule also feeds the paperwork side of the ordinance: Sec. 510(b)(xi)(2) requires the parking standard, along with noise and maximum occupancy limits, to be posted inside the rental unit and incorporated as an addendum to the vacation rental contract each tenant signs, so the on-street parking ban is something guests are supposed to see before they ever park a car.