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

Unincorporated Tulare County does not have a short-term-rental parking standard. The countywide STR ordinance proposed in 2024 would have required occupants' vehicles to be parked on the rental property rather than on the street, but the Board of Supervisors rejected that ordinance 3-2 on July 9, 2024. Because no STR ordinance was adopted, STR guest parking is controlled only by generally applicable rules: County traffic and street-use provisions, posted restrictions on individual roads, off-street parking requirements that attach to the underlying zoning of the parcel, and the Public Nuisance Ordinance (Part IV, Chapter 1) for conditions like abandoned or obstructive vehicles. Many of the affected areas, such as Three Rivers and the foothill/mountain communities, have narrow rural roads where roadside parking can create access and fire-safety problems; in those situations the County and Sheriff rely on general traffic enforcement and nuisance abatement rather than an STR-specific on-site-parking mandate, which does not exist in the code. Operators should still confirm any off-street parking obligations tied to their parcel's zoning with the Resource Management Agency.