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

Tehama County has not published short-term-rental-specific parking standards in its STR and TOT materials. The County's online program confirms the STR Permit requirement and the 8% TOT but does not state, for example, a required number of off-street spaces per bedroom or a ban on on-street guest parking for vacation rentals. In the absence of an STR-specific rule, parking at an unincorporated-county rental is governed by the general provisions of the County Zoning Ordinance (Title 17), which contains off-street parking requirements for residential uses, and by the County's road, driveway and access standards that apply in rural areas. Many of these rentals are in low-density rural settings near communities like Mineral, Mill Creek and Manton, where off-street parking is typically on private driveways and on-street parking is limited by narrow rural roads and fire-access needs. Because no STR-specific parking quota could be verified, hosts should provide adequate off-street parking on the rental parcel, avoid blocking shared private roads or fire lanes, and follow any access conditions tied to the STR Permit. Where a rental is on a private road governed by a road-maintenance agreement or a CC&R community, those private rules may impose additional parking limits separate from County code. This avoids implying a numeric County parking standard that has not been published.