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

Because Imperial County has no dedicated vacation-rental ordinance, parking for a transient rental is determined by the off-street parking schedule in the Title 9 Land Use Ordinance, Division 4, Chapter 2. Under § 90402.01, residential uses must provide two parking spaces per single-family dwelling, duplex, condominium, or three-bedroom-or-smaller mobile/manufactured unit; units with more than three bedrooms must add one-half space per additional bedroom. Boarding houses, rooming houses, residential hotels, fraternity or sorority houses, dormitories, and similar uses must provide one parking space per bedroom. Hotels and motels must provide one space per room, plus two spaces for a manager's quarters, plus one space per 1,000 square feet of gross building area for general public parking, with additional parking for meeting rooms as determined by Planning & Development Services. Which ratio applies to a particular rental depends on how the County classifies the use. A whole-house rental that remains a single-family dwelling defaults to the two-space residential standard, while a more commercial transient-lodging operation could be held to the hotel/motel or boarding-house ratios. Guests must use off-street parking on the lot rather than overflowing onto rural shoulders or neighbors' frontage, which can prompt nuisance or code complaints.