Placentia, CA Short-Term Rentals: Short-Term Rental Parking Rules (2026)

Section 6.45.150 of the Placentia Municipal Code sets the parking standard for short-term residential rentals in two sentences. During the term of any rental, a maximum of one vehicle per bedroom is permitted for the premises, and no additional vehicles are permitted. All vehicles of occupants must be parked only in an approved driveway or garage on the premises. The premises, as defined in Section 6.45.020, means the actual single-family house or other residential dwelling unit, including all of its improved real property, so the driveway and garage that count are the ones on that property.

The parking standard is one of the rules the owner must pass on to guests. Section 6.45.070(d) requires the owner or managing agency or agent to give the responsible person notification of the parking standards of the chapter before occupancy and to post that information in a conspicuous place within the dwelling. The same notice package includes the maximum number of occupants, the noise standards of Chapter 23.76, a copy of Chapter 6.45 and the Good Neighbor Brochure, and the owner must keep on file a signed agreement acknowledging the general rules.

Related rules close off workarounds. Section 6.45.130(c) says occupants cannot use any vehicle, tent or other portable structure as a dwelling unit on the grounds of the premises. The overnight occupancy cap in Section 6.45.120 is two persons per bedroom, which sits alongside the one vehicle per bedroom limit. The local contact person under Section 6.45.060 has to be reachable 24 hours a day and respond within one hour to complaints about the use, condition, operation or conduct of occupants on the premises, and if the contact does not satisfactorily correct the alleged violation, the owner is subject to citation under Section 6.45.170.