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

Parking congestion in the County's tourism corridor is one of the problems the draft Short-Term Vacation Rental Ordinance is meant to address. County materials and coverage of the Planning Commission process state that STVR operators 'would be expected to provide adequate on-site parking' for their guests, so that visitor vehicles do not spill onto narrow mountain roads or block neighbors and emergency access around Bass Lake, Oakhurst and North Fork. The draft expresses this as an on-site parking standard, but Madera County had not published a specific space count (for example, a set number of spaces per bedroom or per the unit's permitted occupancy) while the ordinance remained in draft. Because the ordinance had not been adopted by the Board of Supervisors as of mid-2026, there is no enforceable county-specific STVR parking ratio in place yet; general zoning and any community-specific road or fire-access rules continue to apply. Operators should plan for an on-site parking requirement and confirm the adopted number of required spaces with the Planning Division once the ordinance is finalized. We do not state a specific space requirement here because none has been published in an adopted ordinance.