Bellflower, CA Short-Term Rentals: Permit Requirements (2026)

Bellflower is an incorporated city in Los Angeles County of roughly 79,000 people, and its own Municipal Code, not the County's unincorporated-area STR rules, governs land use inside city limits. The city's Title 17 Zoning Code lists permitted and conditional uses zone by zone, and short-term or vacation rental of a dwelling is not among the uses allowed in the residential zones (R-1, R-2, and R-3). Transient lodging in Bellflower is treated as a hotel, motel, or rooming-house use, which is a commercial use directed to the General Commercial (C-G) zone rather than to residential neighborhoods. Because the code contains no chapter creating a short-term rental permit, business license category, or registration process for home-sharing, there is no application a resident can file to legally operate an Airbnb-style rental of a house, condo, or apartment. Bellflower also closes the accessory-dwelling-unit pathway many hosts use elsewhere: under the city's ADU regulations (adopted by Ordinance No. 1401), an ADU or junior ADU may not be rented for a term shorter than 30 days, which forecloses short-term rental of granny flats. The practical result is that Bellflower neither licenses nor regulates STRs as a distinct use; it simply does not permit them in residential areas. Owners who want to confirm the current treatment of a specific parcel should contact the Bellflower Planning Division at City Hall, 16600 Civic Center Drive, (562) 804-1424.